Hackwriters.com, the online creative writing magazine run from Falmouth College of Arts, is celebrating winning its first award.

It has won the Metaplus Creative Writing Website Award – a coup for the year-old site, which hosts articles submitted from young writers in the UK and abroad.

Managing editor Sam North said: “The award is in recognition of what we are doing in widening participation in creative writing and travel writing.

“It is very hard to get noticed when there are thousands of web magazines out there. Hackwriters is a full time job with little glory and zero cash. We are a magazine that is constantly evolving and we do so with the help of our readers.

“Metaplus.com is a portal – one of the originals and very useful. It also has a site called Female-Detective.com, and some of the featured writers there have been to see my students recently.”

Hackwriters has come from the professional writing programme at the college and is now updated bi-weekly with articles on serious themes tackling big issues.

Alongside the regular themed articles there is also travel writing and a diary column.

The prize comes at a time when Hackwriters is launching its new First Chapters section, showcasing talent to agents and publishers.

Currently posted are Jayne Sharratt’s Life in a Northern Town and Joerg Lisgard’s first three short chapters of Love.

Hackwriters describes itself as a “free internet magazine devoted to good writing, on any subject”.

It is independent and receives no money for advertising or opinion. It has no bias, pays no fees for work published, and aims to offer a forum of quality work by new or unpublished writers, or by established writers wishing to say something different or branch out.

There are eight full-time writers and ten regular contributors from as far away as New Zealand, Canada and even Afghanistan.

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