Category: Inspiration
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Getting Published: Q&A with Short Story Winner Hannah Persaud
Since winning the Fresher Writing Prize Best Short Story award in 2016 for her story Cyfannedd Fach, Hannah Persaud has not put her pen down! Her love for writing has led her to complete her debut novel, The Codes of Love which will be published March 2020 in print by Muswell Press and in audio…
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WATCH: Flash Fiction and Short Story Tips with fresher judge, Claire Fuller
Gain some helpful tips from our very own Fresher Writing Prize judge, Claire Fuller, when it comes to writing Short Stories and Flash Fiction. Check out the two clips linked below, to gain some words of advice before submitting your work! All of us here at Fresher Publishing can’t wait to read your entries!
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new poetry judge: antony dunn
We are delighted to introduce our new poetry judge, Antony Dunn, for the Fresher Writing Prize 2018! He has an impressive four collections of poems published, with the most recent released in October 2016, ‘Take This One to Bed’. As well as publishing his own work, Antony has edited and worked on a posthumous collection…
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Q&A with Short Story Prize winner Hannah Persaud
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…
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Q&A with Poetry Prize winner, Stephanie Ginger
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…
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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…