Category: Novel Writing

  • Q&A with Novel Prize winner, Helen Dring

    Q&A with Novel Prize winner, Helen Dring

    Helen Dring is a writer and teacher of Creative Writing in Liverpool. Her piece Encantada won her the Fresher Writing Prize 2016 award for the First 500 Words of a Novel. Helen has an MA in Novel Writing and enjoys writing children’s fiction with roots in fairy tale. We caught up with her to ask…

  • Read: The Day After Yesterday by Felicia Yap

    Read: The Day After Yesterday by Felicia Yap

    The Day After Yesterday by Felicia Yap received a Special Commendation in the First 500 Words of a Novel category at the Fresher Writing Prize 2016. Felicia has recently secured a publishing deal for the novel so we’re thrilled to have included the first 500 words in our 2016 anthology, along with all our other…

  • Read: Encantada by Helen Dring

    Read: Encantada by Helen Dring

    Encantada by Helen Dring won the Fresher Writing Prize for the First 500 Words of a Novel 2016. Helen’s story, along with all of the other shortlisted entries, can be found in the Fresher Writing 2016 anthology which can be purchased via our Books page.     Encantada Prologue By the time I was sixteen I had stopped…