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We are delighted to announce that Family Matters, by Martina Nesi, has been awarded the prize for the Best Short Story 2019. Fresher Publishing judge, Ansa Khan Khattak, Editor at Picador said: “I loved the ambition of this story – our narrator sees spirits –and how it worked so well with the very human aspect of…

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Fresher Writing Prize for Poetry 2019 is Isobel Shirlaw, for her poem Gift Of Remembrance. Isobel studied English at Oxford University and has worked for the Daily Telegraph, the British Government in Bangladesh and for Refuge, a UK domestic violence charity and lives in Berkshire. Poetry judge,…

We don’t officially have a runner-up category, but our judge, poet Antony Dunn, was keen to also commend a poem called Excavation by Elenia Graf. There’s something horribly familiar about the sentiments behind ‘excavation’ which rings true. It dismantles the pretty, the safe, the familiar, to get to some mysterious horror underneath. It doesn’t over-explain, the mystery…

Zoe Kilmister, The Writing Wizardry year 3/4 category winner, and Alex Kirk, the year 5/6 category winner, recently had a fabulous time selecting their choice of £150 worth of books from Waterstones, with a helping hand from staff at the store and Emma Scattergood, Editorial Director of Fresher Publishing and the Writing Wizardry Competition. Both…

We are excited to reveal the winning cover for the latest volume of the Fresher Writing Anthology! The cover for volume 5 was designed by Tara Proudfoot, a student from the MA Creative Writing & Publishing course at Bournemouth University. Whilst there were several strong contenders for the cover design this year, we felt that…