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Bridport Prize for Poetry, Short Stories & Flash Fiction

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: 

  • 1st £5000
  • 2nd £1000
  • 3rd £500
  • plus 10 supplementary prizes of £50 each


  • Prize for flash fiction: 

  • 1st £1000
  • 2nd £500
  • 3rd £250
  • plus 3 supplementary prizes of £25 each

  • Open to: Writers worldwide (over 16 years old), writing in English

    Deadline: 31 May 2012

    Website:   The Bridport Prize

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