Fresher

The Publishing House for New Voices

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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The Bournemouth Writing Prize Short Story Shortlist 2021

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We are delighted to be able to announce the shortlist of The Bournemouth Writing Prize Short Story competition 2021. Congratulations to all of you listed here! Every shortlisted story has been put forward for inclusion in the anthologies we will be publishing later in the year. We will let you know if yours is selected. The judges, including literary agent… View Post

The Bournemouth Writing Prize Poetry Shortlist 2021

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We are delighted to be able to announce the shortlist of The Bournemouth Writing Prize Poetry competition 2021. Congratulations to all of you listed here! As, with the short story competition, it was an absolute pleasure to read the entries that were submitted to the BWP from all around the world, although trying to reduce the numbers down to a shortlist… View Post

Announcing The Bournemouth Writing Prize (Short Story) Longlist 2021

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We are delighted to be able to announce which short stories have been long-listed for the Bournemouth Writing Prize 2021. Congratulations to all of you listed here! It was an absolute pleasure to read the hundreds of entries that were submitted from all around the world, although trying to reduce it to these 65 names was so SO hard! Please… View Post

Entering the Writing Wizardry competition? Here’s a useful story worksheet to get you started

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Since we haven’t been able to visit schools with our team of Writing Witches this year, we thought we would share the worksheet we use in our sessions to help pupils get their ideas flowing and their stories planned.   This worksheet will help them create their main character and setting in depth through writing and drawing as well as provide a story mountain… View Post

What makes a winning poem?

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Entering competitions is a great way of setting yourself targets and deadlines to work to. The Bournemouth Writing Prize Poetry Judge, the wonderful Antony Dunn, has shared some hints about what makes a good poem and what he looks for. Watch here.