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About the winner Sigrid is based in Brighton, East Sussex and currently enrolled on the Curtis Brown Creative Writing Course in London. She describes herself as being interested in themes of alienation, observational writing on relationships and different ways of depicting mental illness. She is currently working on a full length narrative, ‘Chemical Lovers’, an unexpected love story between two… View Post
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 you know it you’re standing… View Post
As with the short story category, we had a huge number of poetry entries this year. Thank you so much to everyone who entered, we really enjoyed reading your poems. After a lot of deliberating, we are delighted to announce the shortlisted poems below. Poet Antony Dunn now has the hard job of choosing an overall winner, which we hope… View Post
We are delighted to be able to announce the shortlist for the 2020 Fresher Writing Prize short story category. We really were quite overwhelmed by the number of entries this year and would like to thank everyone who took the time to send us their work. There is so much talent out there, and it has genuinely been a difficult… View Post
In last year’s Fresher Writing Prize, Elenia Graf really impressed our poetry judge, Anthony Dunn with her piece, Excavation. Since being highly commended, Elenia was kind enough to join us for an interview and to read her poem in our recording studio. Excavation maybe the time has come for excavation taking an axe down memory lane and… View Post
Last year, Isobel Shirlaw won the poetry category in the Fresher Writing Competition for her touching poem, A Gift of Remembrance. Poetry judge, Anthony Dunn, praised her work and labelled it a “remarkable, multi-layered and coherent piece” which was both moving and intriguing. Isobel has since joined us to record her winning poem and to share the inspiration behind… View Post