Author: Fresher

  • Bournemouth Writing Prize Poetry Winner Announced

    Bournemouth Writing Prize Poetry Winner Announced

    We are delighted to announce that the winner of The Bournemouth Writing Prize for Poetry is CT Mills, for his poem Poetry, n. Poetry judge Antony Dunn said: ‘This poem stood out from the start as unusual in subject and technique. It is packed with apparently genuine sorrow, tightly-controlled and crafted into odd, memorable verse,…

  • Meet the Designer of the Writing Wizardry Anthology 2021

    Meet the Designer of the Writing Wizardry Anthology 2021

    As well as a writing competition, the Writing Wizardry Competition provides the opportunity for Bournemouth University students studying Communication & Media or English to compete to design our anthology’s cover as part of their Writing, Editing and Publishing unit. This year’s winner was 21 year old BA English student (now graduate), Tinu Ogunkanmi! Here’s a…

  • Entering the Writing Wizardry competition? Here’s a useful story worksheet to get you started

    Entering the Writing Wizardry competition? Here’s a useful story worksheet to get you started

    Since we haven’t been able to visit schools with our team of Writing Witches this year, we thought we would share the worksheet we use in our sessions to help pupils get their ideas flowing and their stories planned.   This worksheet will help them create their main character and setting in depth through writing and drawing as well…

  • Story starters for children

    Story starters for children

    Struggling to come up with a great way to start your Writing Wizardry entry this year? Take a look at our long list of starters for characters, settings and plots to get you going and get that imagination flowing. Use any of the below individually or maybe put two together for an exciting and original…

  • Resources to start writing for children

    Resources to start writing for children

    Some resources for you to get that inspiration flowing and creativity showing! Here you will have links to various online content to prompt you on your writing journey, giving you various activities and writing exercises. National Literacy Trust gives you lots of teacher/parent resources to try out with children of all ages, you can find…

  • 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…