Our 2020 Prize we received more entries than ever, so we would, once again, like to congratulate all of those shortlisted. We are delighted to announce that the winner for the Fresher Writing Prize Short Story 2020, as selected by our panel of judges, including Ansa Khan Khattak, Commissioning Editor at Picador, is Patrick Bird for ‘The Fenian Cycle’. About… View Post
Winner of the 2020 Fresher Writing Prize for Poetry
This year, we received more entries than ever, so we would once again like to congratulate all of those shortlisted. We really enjoyed reading all of your work. We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Fresher Writing Prize for Poetry 2020 is Sigrid Daniel for her poem, ‘Brother’. About the Author Sigrid is based in… View Post
Fresher Writing Prize 2020: Best Student Writer
The Fresher Best Student Writer prize is awarded each year to the best short story submitted by a BU student. We are delighted to announce that the winner of Fresher Best Student Writer 2020 is Jason Blackburn, for his short story, ‘The Gulf Between Us’. Of The Gulf Between Us, the judges said: “This is a well crafted story. Jason… View Post
Writing Wizardry Competition 2020 Shortlist!
We are delighted to be able to announce the shortlist for the Writing Wizardry Competition 2020. We were overwhelmed by the sheer number of entries this year and would like to thank everyone for their amazing pieces of work. There were so many awesome stories that trying to cut it down to a shortlist was incredibly hard. Because we are… View Post
Read: The Fresher Writing Prize 2020 short story winner, ‘The Fenian Cycle’
A Few Words from the Winner “I grew up surrounded by stories, and my passion for writing developed from there. Storytelling is so important as it provides us with an alternate, more human perspective of events, allowing us to access and understand different people and ideas. The more I write, the more my understanding and reverence for the craft grows – and… View Post
Read: The Fresher Writing Prize 2020 poetry winner, ‘Brother’
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
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