Bridport Prize calls for entries

Bridport Prize, an open writing competition dedicated to finding and encouraging the most promising new writers from across the world, has announced a call for entries.  Best submissions in poetry, short stories, flash fiction and first novels, are annually awarded over £18,000 in prize money by the judges. The 2018 judges are Bangladeshi-born British writer […]

Bridport Prize, an open writing competition dedicated to finding and encouraging the most promising new writers from across the world, has announced a call for entries. 

Best submissions in poetry, short stories, flash fiction and first novels, are annually awarded over £18,000 in prize money by the judges.

The 2018 judges are Bangladeshi-born British writer and novelist, Monica Ali; British poet, Daljit Nagra and British Pakistani novelist, Kamila Shamsie.

A statement on the Bridport site said, all winners are published in the Bridport Prize anthology in addition to the cash prizes. 

“Winners of the Peggy Chapman Andrews First Novel Award will receive mentoring with our partner The Literary Consultancy – the UK’s first and leading editorial and manuscript assessment service,” the statement said.

The prize was founded in 1973, in a small town in Dorset, UK, by Peggy Chapman-Andrews. Today it is a global writing competition and many winners have gone on to see their work published and have become household names. 

Past judges include Ali Smith, Roger McGough, Carol Ann Duffy, U A Fanthorpe, Kate Atkinson, Margaret Drabble, Andrew Motion and Tracy Chevalier.

This year’s competition closes 31 May, 12 midnight BST 2018.