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📝 Worldwide creative writing comp
📝 Over £20K prize pot
📝 Alumni inc Kate Atkinson
📝 Honorary Patron Kit de Waal
📝 Raises funds for Bridport Arts Centre
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@bridportprize.bsky.socialLAST DAY TO ENTER
The Bridport Prize Memoir Award closes tonight at 23:59 UK time.
If your entry is ready, don’t leave it until the final few minutes.
Entries close tonight — 30 September, 23:59 UK time.
Enter now: bit.ly/memoir-award
@bridportprize.bsky.socialJust 1 day left.
The Bridport Prize Memoir Award closes tomorrow at 11.59pm UK time.
If your entry is nearly ready, now is the time to finish those final checks and submit.
Deadline: 30 September 2026, 11.59pm UK time
Enter now: bit.ly/memoir-award
@bridportprize.bsky.socialJust 2 days left.
The Bridport Prize Memoir Award closes this Wednesday.
Your memoir doesn't need to be finished. Submit your opening 5,000–8,000 words, together with a 300-word overview.
Entries close 30 September at 11.59pm (UK time).
Enter now: bit.ly/memoir-award
@bridportprize.bsky.socialOnly 3 days left to enter the Bridport Prize Memoir Award.
£1,500 first prize plus a mentoring package
Open internationally to writers aged 16+ writing in English
Deadline: Wednesday 30 September, 11.59pm (UK time).
Enter today: bit.ly/memoir-award
@bridportprize.bsky.socialJust 5 days left to enter the Bridport Prize Memoir Award.
If you've been waiting to hit submit, now's the time.
First prize: £1,500 plus a mentoring package.
Open internationally to writers aged 16+ writing in English
Deadline: 30 September 2026, 11.59pm (UK time)
Enter now: bit.ly/memoir-award
@bridportprize.bsky.socialJust 10 days left to enter the Bridport Prize Memoir Award.
If your memoir has been sitting in a notebook, a folder or on your desktop waiting for one more edit, now is the time to send it out into the world.
Deadline: 30 September 2026, 11.59pm (UK time)
Enter now: www.bridportprize.org.uk
@bridportprize.bsky.socialThe Bridport Prize Memoir Award is open for entries.
£1,500 first prize + mentoring package
Submit the opening 5,000–8,000 words of your memoir + a 300-word overview
Open internationally to writers
Deadline: 30 September 2026, 11.59pm UK time
Enter now: bit.ly/memoir-award
@bridportprize.bsky.social⏳ Just 20 days left to enter the Bridport Prize Memoir Award.
If your memoir has been sitting in a folder, notebook or on your desktop waiting for "one more edit", now is the time to send it out into the world.
Deadline: 30 September 2026 (11.59pm UK time)
Enter now: bit.ly/memoir-award
@bridportprize.bsky.socialWhat does Sarah Moss look for in a memoir?
“I’m looking for fidelity to the complications and contradictions of real life and recollection.”
Sarah Moss—author of My Good Bright Wolf, Ghost Wall and Ripeness—is judging this year’s Bridport Prize Memoir Award.
Find out more:
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@bridportprize.bsky.socialHave a story only you can tell?
The Bridport Prize Memoir Award is open for entries.
First prize £1,500 plus a mentoring package
Your memoir does not need to be finished
Open internationally to writers aged 16+ writing in English
Find out more and enter:
buff.ly/HUrOYv9
📅 Entries close 30 Sept.
@bridportprize.bsky.socialOur 2026 Novel Award shortlist is here! Congratulations to the authors behind these five outstanding novels. A huge congratulations to all our shortlisted writers, and thank you to everyone who entered this year's Novel Award. Winners and highly commended writers will be announced on 17 October.
