Author: Fresher

  • Bournemouth Student Short List

    Bournemouth Student Short List

    The shortlist for the Fresher Writing Prize 2015, Bournemouth University’s first public creative writing competition has now been announced, and we are delighted that our own students have made a good showing on the list. Katie Gillingham, Mickey Harper, Amanda Jane, Olivia Johnson, Louise Jones, Jessica Kennedy, Jessica McComish, Elvin Mensah, Nicole Millian and Julia…

  • Confirmed Shortlist

    Confirmed Shortlist

    I am pleased to announce this years Fresher Writing Prize Shortlist! Well Done to everyone who entered and got involved, we really do appreciate it. This year there were so many amazing entires it took our team of dedicated readers a long time to come up with this final list. For those of you who didn’t…

  • Fresher Book Cover

    Fresher Book Cover

    Over the past couple of weeks Writing Editing and Publishing students at Bournemouth University have been designing and creating what they think will be the best book cover for this years Fresher book cover. There has been some amazing entries put forward and we would like to thank everyone that got involved, but there can…

  • Writing Wizardry Judge 2015: Ali Sparkes

    Writing Wizardry Judge 2015: Ali Sparkes

    Award-winning children’s author Ali Sparkes joins the judging panel for our Writing Wizardry competition.

  • Fresher Writing Prize Judge 2015: Claire Fuller

    Fresher Writing Prize Judge 2015: Claire Fuller

    Author Claire Fuller’s debut novel ‘Our Endless Numbered Days’ sparked a bidding war amongst the major publishing houses, before being snapped up in the UK by Fig Tree / Penguin. It will be published in February.

  • Fresher Writing Prize Judge 2015: Ed Peppitt

    Fresher Writing Prize Judge 2015: Ed Peppitt

    Ed Peppitt of Balloon Publishing and Getpublished.tv is a former Publishing Director at Letts Educational and a consultant to many leading publishers, including Hodder & Stoughton, Oxford University Press and Harper Collins.