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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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Writing Wizardry Competition 2020 Shortlist!

in Updates on 01/07/20

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’

in Inspiration, Short Stories on 30/06/20

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’

in Inspiration, Poetry on 30/06/20

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

Read: The Fresher Writing Prize 2020 Best Student short story:

in Inspiration, Short Stories on 28/06/20

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

Listen to the winning entries from the Writing Wizardry Competition 2020

in Updates on 25/05/20

Year 3 & 4 Category Winner – Electro Virus by Ella Stevenson (Southfield Primary School) Author Maz Evans said: “Oh Ella! You’re a clever little onion aren’t you! As a mum of three children, this sat well with me and I think a few other parents might like the sound of this too. It is a really lovely take on… View Post

Fresher Writing Prize 2020 Shortlist (Poetry)

in Updates on 12/05/20

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

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Fresher Writing Volume 1

Fresher Writing Volume 1

An anthology of the best new talent in short stories, poetry and creative non-fiction, featuring all of the short-listed and prize-winning entries to the Fresher Writing Prize 2015.

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Brothers Katrina by Bradley Wester won the Fresher Writing Prize for Creative Non-Fiction 2016.

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