TIME is running out to enter the Bridport Prize writing competition with the deadline less than a month away.
The Bridport Prize is the richest open writing competition in the English language with a £5,000 first prize for a short story and a £5,000 first prize for a poem, plus £1,000 first prize for flash fiction.
Entries must be in by May 31 and anyone can enter so long as the work is previously unpublished. It costs £8 per story, £7 per poem or £6 per flash fiction.
Entries can be sent by post or online at bridportprize.org.uk Postal entry forms are available online or by sending an SAE to: The Bridport Prize, PO Box 6910, Dorset DT6 9BQ, UK Judges Gwyneth Lewis and Patrick Gale will be giving a talk and reading from their work at the Bridport Open Book Festival this year on October 13.
The Anthology of the 33 winning stories and poems of 2011, plus judges reports, is now available online or from the above address for £12 (inc UK post, or £15 inc overseas postage).
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