Bridport Arts Centre Schedule

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The entry fee for the year 2009 is £6 per poem and £7 per story.

Kate Atkinson (a short story winner in 1990) said that it was very important, confirming that she had found her "voice".

In many cases a win in the Bridport Prize has led to further successes and helped to launch new writers.

It has a 200-seat theatre, three exhibition spaces plus a café and bar.The Bridport Arts Centre's annual festival has talks, readings, discussions and performances in venues around the town.2008 - Elaine Chiew, "Face"2007 - Graham Mort, "The Prince"2006 - Elizabeth Dalton, "Rue de Vaugirard"2005 - Clare Scurfield, "Taking Off"2004 - Dorene O'Brien, "#12 Dagwood on Rye"2003 - Jonathan Haylett, "The Crossing"2002 - Lynsey White, "Amore"2001 - Chris Hill, "The Runner"2000 - Victoria Worsley, "Giddy, Stick and the Beach Hut"2008 - Anne Stewart, "Still Water, Orange, Apple, Tea"2007 - Christopher Buehlman, "Wanton"2006 - Anthony Snider, "Panegyric"2005 - Carole Bromley, "The Lovers"2004 - William Hampton, "Encountering my first untouchables"2003 - Sheenagh Pugh, "Chocolate from the Famine Museum"2002 - Christopher James, "Walking Southward on O'Connell Street"2001 - Rowland Molony, "The Dying and the LIght"2000 - Linda Rogers, "Snail Love with Opera"Poetry awardsBritish poetryAwards established in 1973British literary awards.

She returned to judge the Short Story section in 2001.Other noteworthy names include Helen Dunmore (also a 1990 winner) whose "Spell of Winter" won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996; Tobias Hill, a winner in both categories (poetry 1994, short story 1996), Tessa Biddington, a winner in 2000, who made it onto the short list for The Forward Prize and gained an agent for her forthcoming novel, Linda Leatherbarrow a winner in 2001 who has since appeared in many publications, plus many others.The prize money and entry fees have risen over the years as well and now the first prize in each category is £5,000, second prize £1,000 and third prize £500.

Her short story went on to become the first chapter of her novel, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum", winner of the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year.

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