Helen Bailey Blog & Digital Storyteller Award 2026

March 2026

In recognition of the different ways widowed people are choosing to share their stories, we’re delighted to announce that we’re extending our Helen Bailey Blog Award to include digital storytelling through podcasts and social media broadcasts, as well as written blogs..

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We set up the award in 2017 in memory of late WAY member Helen Bailey, who helped so many young widows and widowers through her own blog Planet Grief and through her book When Bad Things Happen in Good Bikinis, before her untimely death in 2016.

Just as the Helen Bailey Blog Award has celebrated the voices of young widowed people in writing over the last nine years in memory of WAY member and writer Helen Bailey, our Blog & Digital Storyteller award will now also recognise young widowed people who are choosing to share their experiences through podcasts, Instagram, TikTok and other digital platforms too.

We are looking for nominations from WAY members who have found fellow members’ storytelling has particularly resonated with them – whether in writing, audio or broadcast form. WAY members will then get to vote on their favourite nominee.