Fresher

The Publishing House for New Voices

We are delighted to be able to announce the shortlists for both the short story and poetry categories of the Fresher Writing Prize 2020. The winners will be announced in early June.

Due to the impact of the virus, we are currently having to put the publication of any anthologies on hold, but will publish the winning entries on the website.

WELCOME TO FRESHER PUBLISHING

Fresher is a publishing press, established at Bournemouth University to nurture the publishing talent of the future and encourage new writers everywhere. It is also central to the university’s MA in Creative Writing and Publishing.

The Fresher Writing Prize is an annual competition open to all previously unpublished, emerging writers of fiction and poetry. Judges each year include senior figures from the publishing industry, who offer a one-to-one or feedback on winners’ work as part of their prize. We also run the Writing Wizardry Prize for children of 11 years and under.

Please do keep in touch here, or via Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, for details of the Prize, our publications and other special writing-related events.

Please note, we do not currently accept any other work for publication. Unfortunately, as we are a very small publishing house, we are unable to offer any work experience placements.

Best wishes – Emma
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Go Ed Peppitt!

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Fantastic publisher & judge Ed Peppitt is taking a detour during his charity cycling challenge just to be in Boscombe for the evening of the Fresher launch.

Bournemouth Student Short List

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The shortlist for the Fresher Writing Prize 2015, Bournemouth University’s first public creative writing competition has now been announced, and we are delighted that our own students have made a good showing on the list. Katie Gillingham, Mickey Harper, Amanda Jane, Olivia Johnson, Louise Jones, Jessica Kennedy, Jessica McComish, Elvin Mensah, Nicole Millian and Julia Watts are all studying either… View Post

Confirmed Shortlist

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I am pleased to announce this years Fresher Writing Prize Shortlist! Well Done to everyone who entered and got involved, we really do appreciate it. This year there were so many amazing entires it took our team of dedicated readers a long time to come up with this final list. For those of you who didn’t get shortlisted, please don’t feel… View Post

Fresher Book Cover

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Over the past couple of weeks Writing Editing and Publishing students at Bournemouth University have been designing and creating what they think will be the best book cover for this years Fresher book cover. There has been some amazing entries put forward and we would like to thank everyone that got involved, but there can be only one winner… Today,… View Post