Category: Short Stories
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And the winner of the Bournemouth Writing Prize for the Short Story is…
What a year of entries it has been! And what a shortlist we had to choose from! The panel of judges so enjoyed reading them and discussing the impact each had on them individually. Putting one story up against another and deciding which is ‘best’ is, of course, never easy. We would have liked to…
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Picador Commissioning Editor, Ansa Khan Khattak, reveals what she likes to see in a story
Click here to watch Ansa Khan Khattak, one of the The Bournemouth Writing Prize judges, share her thoughts on what makes a great short story. Short story entries can be on any theme, and in any genre. The only stipulation is that they are less than 3000 words. For more information on how to enter,…
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Read: The Fresher Writing Prize 2020 short story winner, ‘The Fenian Cycle’
A Few Words from the Winner “I grew up surrounded by stories, and my passion for writing developed from there. Storytelling is so important as it provides us with an alternate, more human perspective of events, allowing us to access and understand different people and ideas. The more I write, the more my understanding and reverence for…
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Read: The Fresher Writing Prize 2020 Best Student short story:
The Gulf Between Us Do you ever have one of those days where you can’t feel your feet touching the floor? You wake up feeling like shit, you’re greeted by your shithole one-bedroom flat, you swig from the closest bottle you can find, brush your teeth, burn some toast, have more swigs and before…
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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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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…