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  • The Bournemouth Writing Prize 2022 Anthologies are now available on Amazon!

    The Bournemouth Writing Prize 2022 Anthologies are now available on Amazon!

    We are very happy to announce that our Bournemouth Writing Prize 2022 anthologies Dark Circles, Strange Encounters, Passages, Imprint and Pick Me Up are now available on Amazon for only £6.99 each. Why not grab one, two or… all of them! Just click on the image below:

  • And the winner of the Bournemouth Writing Prize for Poetry is…

    And the winner of the Bournemouth Writing Prize for Poetry is…

    Like the Short Story category, the Poetry entries for 2022 surpassed any other year in both numbers and strength – making the task of choosing just one winner even more of a challenge than usual. As ever poet Antony Dunn, and in-house poet Tom Masters, rose enthusiastically to the challenge and now, finally, we are…

  • And the winner of the Bournemouth Writing Prize for the Short Story is…

    And the winner of the Bournemouth Writing Prize for the Short Story is…

    What a year of entries it has been! And what a shortlist we had to choose from!  The panel of judges so enjoyed reading them and discussing the impact each had on them individually. Putting one story up against another and deciding which is ‘best’ is, of course, never easy. We would have liked to…

  • The Shortlist for The BWP Poetry category is announced

    The Shortlist for The BWP Poetry category is announced

    We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Bournemouth Writing Prize Poetry category 2022. Congratulations to all. It was, as ever, extremely hard to whittle it down, so we have gone for a rather long shortlist this year, but we are hopeful that you will forgive us!   Bournemouth Writing Prize Poetry Shortlist 2022…

  • The SHORTLIST for the BWP Short Story category is announced

    The SHORTLIST for the BWP Short Story category is announced

    And here it is, the long awaited Shortlist for The Bournemouth Writing Prize Short Story! Congratulations to everyone listed here. The winner will be announced at the end of the month.   The Bournemouth Writing Prize Shortlist 2022 Conducting by Jack Fenton Father’s Day by Chris Cottom Love Apples by Liz Houchin Mixology by Susan Finlay Pieces…

  • The longlist for the BWP Short Story category is announced

    The longlist for the BWP Short Story category is announced

    After much enjoyment, some debate, and a rather late night (!), we can finally reveal the longlist for the Bournemouth Writing Prize Short Story category for 2022. It has been far from easy. As Emma Scattergood, Fresher’s Editorial Director, said: ‘We had a fabulous response to the Prize again this year, with such a huge…