Fresher

WELCOME TO FRESHER PUBLISHING

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

The Bournemouth Writing Prize is an annual, international competition open to any 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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Watch: Short Story Prize winner 2015, Adam Blampied

in Short Stories on 18/06/15

Inner by Adam Blampied

Script Writing Short List

in Updates on 20/05/15

The script writing shortlist has been finalised!

Go Ed Peppitt!

in Updates on 20/05/15

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

in Updates on 17/05/15

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

in Updates on 08/05/15

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

in Updates on 06/05/15

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

Fresh: A Collection of New Writing

This year sees the launch of our first anthology of new writing from within the walls of Bournemouth University. The final year students from these two degree programmes submitted the opening of their novels, short stories and poems for inclusion in Fresh – A Collection of New Writing. The students have also been involved in the production process of both the print and digital editions, working as copy editors, cover designers, PRs and marketeers. For many, this is their first time in print, and publishing – but we are sure it won’t be their last!

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