Fresher

The Publishing House for New Voices

WELCOME TO FRESHER PUBLISHING

Fresher is a young 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The Fresher Writing Prize is an annual competition open to all previously unpublished, emerging writers of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. Judges each year include a literary agent, an author and other 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.

View the Poetry & Short Story shortlists now

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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First 500 words of a novel winner 2018

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We have returned with another winner for the first 500 words of a novel category! Sorry for the delay, but our amazing judge Madeleine Milburn, founder of the Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency, had the extremely difficult decision in choosing just one winner out of all the entries we received. Our winner of the first 500 words of… View Post

Flash Fiction Winner 2018

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It’s Wednesday and time to announce our next Fresher Writing Prize 2018 winner! The flash fiction category took on this year’s monster theme, and it was key to make every word count so the story leapt of the page. Our judge for this category James Cole, who is an author and the Programme leader for the BA Creative Writing at… View Post

Poetry Winner 2018

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It’s our second day announcing our Fresher Writing Prize 2018 winners! Today we look at the glorious poetry category, who this year put the monster theme to the test. Our judge, who had the difficult task of choosing one winner, was award-winning poet Antony Dunn! He has come to a decision and the winner for the 2018 Poetry category is… View Post

Short Story Winner 2018

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The winner of the Fresher Writing Prize for short story has been announced. Our judge, author Claire Fuller, had a lot of amazing short story entries to sift through over the last few months, but she did finally come to a final decision on her favourite monster story! The Fresher Writing Prize 2018 winner for the Short Story category is…… View Post

WRITING WIZARDRY SHORTLIST

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Thank you for all the fantastic monster entries from those children aged 11 and under. Some truly wonderful stories were entered, which made the decision even harder for our judges! But a shortlist has been concocted, so a huge congratulations to: Year 3 and 4 The Monster that ate the Moon by Lucas Aldous The Evil Guitar by James Davie… View Post

Fresher Writing Prize 2018 Shortlist – The First 500 words of a Novel

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Thank you to everyone who entered this category, and congratulations to the following writers: Haverscroft by Sally Harris Idol of The Decadents by Matthew MacLachlan Moonlighting by Louise Van Wingerden Slaves of God by Peter Riddelsdell The Accidental Time Traveller by Sylvia Bluck The Legend of The Star Arrow by Grace Cullen Medusa’s Quest by Erini Loucaides Unfamiliar Problems by… View Post