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THE BEDFORD COMPETITION, a nonprofit group, runs annual international short story and poetry competitions for anyone in the world over 17 years of age.

There are prizes totalling £4,600 and all winning and shortlisted stories and poems are published as an anthology.

SHORT STORY & POETRY COMPETITION MAIN PRIZES – £1500

2nd PRIZES – £300

3rd PRIZES – £200

 

CYGNATURE SHORT STORY & POETRY PRIZES  – £200

The University of Bedfordshire is sponsoring the 

Cygnature Prizes for young writers aged 17-25 yrs

 

BEDFORD SHORT STORY & POETRY PRIZES – £100

All submissions are entered in the Main Prize.

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Don’t miss your opportunity to support a local Bedford writer who is hosting the launch of Rose Diell’s new book at the Eagle Bookshop, Bedford.
 
Kate Packman is The Bedford Competition 2025 Judge of the Bedford Short Story Prize.
Kate graduated from the University of Bedfordshire and completed an MA in creative writing at Birkbeck.
She is an active member of Ampthill Writers’ Group and Writing Bedfordshire.



The Forward Book of Poetry

The Forward Book of Poetry, an anthology of the best poems from 2024, includes poems from The Bedford Competition judges:

Rishi Dastidar, 2024 Cygnature Poetry judge.
Fran Lock, 2025 Main Poetry judge.

Also several of our competition entrants are in the collection:

Damen O’Brien – Winner in 2022
Vanessa Lampert -Third Place in 2021 and shortlisted in 2020

We congratulate them and are proud to have our judges and poets represented in the most influential awards for new poetry published in the UK and Ireland.

 

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