Founded by the Bridport Arts Centre in Dorset UK, this writing prize has been going since 1973. This was a time when writers belted out novels on manual typewriters, there were fewer than 60 computers connected to the internet and long-distance phone calls were so expensive, we spent the first minute of the call talking about how expensive the call would be.
Now that we live in a much faster world, a new "Flash Fiction" category has been introduced. If you're a Twitter fan you shouldn't have any trouble creating a complete micro-story using no more than 250 words.
Short story writers have 5,000 words to play with and poets can write up to 42 lines.
Entry fee: £6 per flash fiction, £7 per poem and £8 per story
Prize for poetry and short stories:
Prize for flash fiction:
Open to: Writers worldwide (over 16 years old), writing in English
Deadline: 31 May
2012
Website: The Bridport Prize
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