Tag: writing competition

  • And the winner of the Bournemouth Writing Prize for Poetry is…

    And the winner of the Bournemouth Writing Prize for Poetry is…

    Like the Short Story category, the Poetry entries for 2022 surpassed any other year in both numbers and strength – making the task of choosing just one winner even more of a challenge than usual. As ever poet Antony Dunn, and in-house poet Tom Masters, rose enthusiastically to the challenge and now, finally, we are…

  • Picador Commissioning Editor, Ansa Khan Khattak, reveals what she likes to see in a story

    Picador Commissioning Editor, Ansa Khan Khattak, reveals what she likes to see in a story

    Click here to watch Ansa Khan Khattak, one of the The Bournemouth Writing Prize judges, share her thoughts on what makes a great short story. Short story entries can be on any theme, and in any genre. The only stipulation is that they are less than 3000 words. For more information on how to enter,…

  • Author Ali Sparkes to judge this year’s Writing Wizardry Competition

    Author Ali Sparkes to judge this year’s Writing Wizardry Competition

    Fresher Publishing is delighted to announce that Ali Sparkes will be ‘head’ Judge of the Writing Wizardry Competition 2021. Ali Sparkes is a well-loved children’s author, who has written over 40 books, including The Shapeshifter series, her Blue Peter Award-winning novel Frozen in Time, and the Monster Makers series. She has been awarded numerous prizes…

  • WRITING WIZARDRY SHORTLIST

    WRITING WIZARDRY SHORTLIST

    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…

  • Behind the Scenes: Wesley

    Behind the Scenes: Wesley

    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…

  • Introducing our Flash Fiction judge, James Cole

    Introducing our Flash Fiction judge, James Cole

    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…