Contributers to the Hackwriters website run by Falmouth College writing students have been shortlisted for a clutch of industry awards.

Writer Rosemary North and editor Sam North are both in with a chance of being named Skylines Magazine Travel Writer of the Year.

Rosemary is a regular contributor to Hacktreks, the website's travel pages, and a former student of the college's Professional Writing Programme.

The awards will be held at the Dorchester Hotel in London on June 28 and are to be hosted by TV's Judith Chalmers.

Skylines is the airline magazines for BMI, formerly British Midland, and the the winner gets a return flight anywhere they want to go on the BMI routes - and a story published in the flight magazine.

The students' website has also received praise from the Daily Telegraph's student section Juiced, under the heading "Students produce good website - shocker".

It said the community of students on the professional writing course atFalmouth College of Arts had pulled off that rarest of journo tricks: a well-written, frequently updated webzine.

The paper said Hackwriters.com may seem like a well-kept secret, but the site has been winning national media awards since 1999.

Reviewing the election edition, which also tackled the role of religion in today's society, it added: "Don't talk about religion or politics? These crazy guys have done both in one well-presented package."

The site is currently running a summer fiction issue and has a feast of writing available.

There is also an interview with Arnold Newman the famous and ancient New York photographer, a piece on French Cinema Now and a wealth of other material.

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