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Hannah Persaud is a writer and winner of the Fresher Writing Prize 2016 award for Best Short Story for Cyfannedd Fach with another of her stories, Blank Walls was also being shortlisted. She started taking writing seriously after completing the Faber Academy ‘Writing a Novel’ course in 2015 and has since been published in a number of anthologies. Hannah is currently working… View Post
Stephanie Ginger is a writer and winner of the Fresher Writing Prize for Poetry 2016. She has studied Creative Writing at both the University of Oxford and Brunel University, as well as working as a freelance journalist. Stephanie has also been successfully shortlisted for several screenwriting competitions. We caught up with her to ask a few questions about the FWPA,… View Post
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 a few questions about what… View Post
Last year’s winner of the playwriting category, Emily Dinova, flew in from New York last week, to see the rehearsed reading of her winning play, Capture. The play, which has already been staged off-Broadway, considers the light of a young woman in an abusive relationship through a series of often emotionally brutal, confrontational scenes, monologues and memory flashbacks. This UK… View Post
As the paperbacks fly off the shelf here at Fresher towers, we are delighted to announce that it, and last year’s anthology, are now both available from Amazon as both paperback (£7.99) and ebook (£2.99). So that’s your summer reading and Christmas presents sorted! To buy your copy now, visit our Books section. And do please review it for us… View Post
See the full list of Fresher Prize winners here