the Bridport Prize April 2013 Newsletter
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April 2013 Newsletter
 
 

The latest news from the Bridport Prize

 
If you haven’t already entered, there are just over 37 days left to submit your winning poems, short stories and flash fictions!


Judged by Wendy Cope for poetry, Michèle Roberts for short stories and David Swann for flash fiction, there is a prize fund of £15,925 to be won.
 
For full details, please see our competition rules and entry instructions

Have you re-registered?
 
If you haven’t yet registered on the new site you will need to do so before you can enter the competition. We were unable to transfer the accounts from the old website, so even if you were registered there, you will need to start again, setting up a new username and password.  

If you have any difficulties with the website, please contact our web manager, Graham Shackleton: graham@bridportprize.org.uk

Should you have any queries about the competition, check our frequently asked questions, or contact the competition administrator, Frances Everitt: frances@bridportprize.org.uk

 

Time is running out - don't miss your chance to enter!
 
Closing date - 31st May 2013
 
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Vanessa Gebbie
Over the last few weeks we’ve been enjoying the conversations kicked off by our guest blogger, Vanessa Gebbie, who’s been writing on all things literary. 

Check it out on our blog on the website.  And a big thank you to you, Vanessa!

Next up as guest blogger will be local winner, Ellie Madden.


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Listen to the 2012 winning poem, short story and flash fiction!

You can now hear our winners from 2012 reading their prizewinning entries, on our blog.  Claudia Daventry reads her poem, Alakazam, Helen Barton reads her story Being David and Greg Jackson’s flash fiction Nearly New is read by Polly Gifford.

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We’ve set up a Bridport Prize YouTube account where you can hear our top three winners of 2012 plus watch two very short (flash, even!) Vine videos we have made. H
ave a look at our contribution to World Poetry Day and homage to Dylan! There'll be more to come over the next few months...

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Successes!
 
We are delighted to hear of recent successes from previous winners of the Bridport Prize – congratulations to all of them.  And there is much more to be found on our successes page on the website.
 
The longlist for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction included our 2013 fiction judge - Michèle Roberts and our 1st prizewinner in 2011, Kitty Aldridge (pictured right).  Kate Atkinson, a BP winner in 1990 and judge in 2001, has been shortlisted. Watch out for news of the winner on 5th June.

David Grubb, a BP winner in 2007, has won the English PEN/Arvon Made-Up Words Competition with his poem, 'Cribbling'.

Tiffany Atkinson's wonderful poem 'Autobiography Without Pronouns' was Guardian poem of the week (a BP winner in 2002)

National Poetry Prize 2013 - Jane Draycott won 2nd Prize for her poem 'Italy to Lord', a BP winner in 1998, 2000 & 2002. Commended for his poem 'The last days of the Lancashire boggarts' was David Swann, this year’s Flash Fiction judge and BP winner in 2000, 2003, 2005 & 2008.

Emily Berry's first collection 'Dear Boy', was reviewed by the Guardian (BP winner in 2007)

Arvon has announced that nine writers have been selected for the Jerwood/Arvon Mentoring Scheme - including Paul Stephenson, a BP winner in 2011

Sean Borodale, a BP winner in 2011.  'Bee Journal', his debut full-length collection of poems was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. 

He was selected as a Granta New Poet in 2012 and was recently shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and the Costa Book Award.




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