Craft your mini memoir of up to 500 words and submit to [email protected] telling us about your experience of the seismic decade that brought us Britpop, cargo pants and the birth of the internet!
The winner will receive an exciting 90’s prize bundle and an annual pass to the museum, with 2nd and 3rd places receiving an annual pass to the museum. Plus the top 3 will be printed and displayed in our exhibition.
Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on Wednesday 28 January 2026
Word Limit: 500 (excluding title)
Email submission: [email protected]
Please submit your entries using the subject line ~ ‘my 90s memoir’
Please include your name and contact details. Submission to BE delivered as a PDF OR WORD DOCUMENT.
We will notify winners on the 6 of February. We will be unable to provide feedback on your submission(s).
We look forward to reading your stories!
Terms and Conditions
All 90’s Memoir entries must:
- Be 500 words or less (excluding title)
- Be written by an individual and not a group
- Be your own original idea
- Be prose, not rap or poem
- Be entered by the deadline, 23.59 (UK time) on Wednesday 28 January 2026
Stories must not:
- Be created, written or developed by AI
- Contain unsuitable material, such as; graphic violence, bad language and offensive content
