Author: Fresher
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Read: The Fresher Writing Prize 2020 poetry winner, ‘Brother’
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…
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Read: The Fresher Writing Prize 2020 Best Student short story:
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…
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Listen to the winning entries from the Writing Wizardry Competition 2020
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…
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Fresher Writing Prize 2020 Shortlist (Poetry)
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…
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Fresher Writing Prize 2020 Shortlist (Short Story)
We are delighted to be able to announce the shortlist for the 2020 Fresher Writing Prize short story category. We really were quite overwhelmed by the number of entries this year and would like to thank everyone who took the time to send us their work. There is so much talent out there, and it…
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Listen to Specially Commended poet Elenia Graf
In last year’s Fresher Writing Prize, Elenia Graf really impressed our poetry judge, Anthony Dunn with her piece, Excavation. Since being highly commended, Elenia was kind enough to join us for an interview and to read her poem in our recording studio. Excavation maybe the time has come for excavation taking an…