Fresher

The Publishing House for New Voices

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WELCOME TO FRESHER PUBLISHING

Fresher is a 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The Fresher Writing Prize is an annual competition open to all previously unpublished, emerging writers of fiction and poetry.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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Behind the Scenes: Wesley

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Hi! My name is Wesley Schulte, the publishing assistant for Fresher Publishing, and I’m here to give you an update of all the wonderful things that are happening behind the scenes! I’m a second year BA English student, from The Netherlands, and interning for Emma Scattergood, editorial director of Fresher. At the moment, we are busy promoting our writing competitions;… View Post

Introducing our Flash Fiction judge, James Cole

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This year we are introducing a Flash Fiction category to our Fresher competition and we are delighted that writer James Cole is joining us to judge these entries. James is a Bournemouth-based storyteller and for the past six years he has led workshops and held community-based residencies, hoping to foster a love for reading and writing. He has a PhD in English Literature and… View Post

Q&A with Short Story Prize winner Hannah Persaud

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Hannah Persaud is a writer and winner of the Fresher Writing Prize 2016 award for Best Short Story for Cyfannedd Fach with another of her stories, Blank Walls was also being shortlisted. She started taking writing seriously after completing the Faber Academy ‘Writing a Novel’ course in 2015 and has since been published in a number of anthologies. Hannah is currently working… View Post

Q&A with Poetry Prize winner, Stephanie Ginger

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Stephanie Ginger is a writer and winner of the Fresher Writing Prize for Poetry 2016. She has studied Creative Writing at both the University of Oxford and Brunel University, as well as working as a freelance journalist. Stephanie has also been successfully shortlisted for several screenwriting competitions. We caught up with her to ask a few questions about the FWPA,… View Post

Q&A with Novel Prize winner, Helen Dring

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Helen Dring is a writer and teacher of Creative Writing in Liverpool. Her piece Encantada won her the Fresher Writing Prize 2016 award for the First 500 Words of a Novel. Helen has an MA in Novel Writing and enjoys writing children’s fiction with roots in fairy tale. We caught up with her to ask a few questions about what… View Post