Just 10 days left to enter the Bridport Prize Memoir Award

By The Bridport Prize | Posted: Sunday Sep 20, 2026

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.

Remember:

📖Your memoir doesn't need to be finished – we're looking for the opening 5,000–8,000 words, plus a 300-word overview.

🏆️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: www.bridportprize.org.uk