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We are absolutely delighted to announce that this year’s winner of the Bournemouth Writing Prize for the Short Story is Alan Murrin for The Wake. The judges were all captivated by Murrin’s ability to tackle themes of loss and grief with such humour and sensitivity. Picador Commissioning Editor, Ansa Khan Khattak, said: ‘The Wake opens on a seemingly unremarkable domestic scene… View Post

We are delighted to announce that the winner of The Bournemouth Writing Prize for Poetry is CT Mills, for his poem Poetry, n. Poetry judge Antony Dunn said: ‘This poem stood out from the start as unusual in subject and technique. It is packed with apparently genuine sorrow, tightly-controlled and crafted into odd, memorable verse, and it never runs away… View Post

We are delighted to announce that the following entries have been shortlisted for the Writing Wizardry Competition. Congratulations to you all! As ever, we had hundreds of entries from hundreds of talented young writers all around the world which made it really hard to narrow it down to the names you see here. Please don’t feel despondent if you didn’t… View Post

We are delighted to be able to announce the shortlist of The Bournemouth Writing Prize Short Story competition 2021. Congratulations to all of you listed here! Every shortlisted story has been put forward for inclusion in the anthologies we will be publishing later in the year. We will let you know if yours is selected. The judges, including literary agent… View Post

We are delighted to be able to announce the shortlist of The Bournemouth Writing Prize Poetry competition 2021. Congratulations to all of you listed here! As, with the short story competition, it was an absolute pleasure to read the entries that were submitted to the BWP from all around the world, although trying to reduce the numbers down to a shortlist… View Post