BISCUIT PUBLISHING

Since 2000, Biscuit Publishing has been promoting good writing by running competitions and publishing the results, as well as commissioning work from selected authors. Biscuit offers you an exciting and rewarding route into getting published. Could you win our competition and have your book published? There are currently over two dozen books in print.

Combo Winners Announced

The winners of Biscuit's 2012 prose fiction competition have done something new: they have impressed the judges with both a short story and a flash fiction, submitted as a 'combo'.

The three versatile witers who triumphed in this feat are Anita John from Penicuik, in Scotland; Sian Hughes from London (who won the Biscuit International Short Story Competition in 2008); and Iain Pattison from Bristol. Anita has chosen to take her prize in the form of a Biscuit publishing deal which includes £500 plus 100 books. Her winning Combo - and those of all the winners and runners-up, will of course feature in the forthcoming Biscuit Combo Top Ten Winners' anthology to be published later this year.

More information about the 2012 Combo Competition, including a full list of winners.

2011 Winners' Launch

The 2011 Biscuit International Prizewinners book launch: from left, Tom Bryan, Brian Lister and Gordon Simms.

Biscuit's two most recent publications were launched on Thursday 22nd March, with a double celebration for the winners of the 2011 competiuons: Tom Bryan's debut short story collection, The Bridge-Keeper's Log Book and Uphill to the Sea, poetry from Gordon Simms.

Tom Bryan won first prize in Biscuit's 2011 International Short Story Competition for his story White Trash Polo. Tom was born in Canada in 1950, but is long resident in Scotland, and now lives in Kelso in the Scottish Borders. He is a widely-published poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. His short stories have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies.

First Prize in the special Poetry Challenge went to Gordon Simms for his poem Embarking from Port Ellen. Gordon has won a number of poetry competitions;h e initiated the Segora writing competitions in 2007. The special Challenge Poetry Competition raised £800 for the Chernobyl children's visit to Hexham, Northumberland.

Browse our catalogue of publications to discover more books from Biscuit - or click the covers on the right to learn more about our spotlighted titles.

Fundraising Success

Biscuit's 2011 Poetry Challenge Competition was a fundraising special, held to raise funds for the Chernobyl Children's Lifeline. It raised raised £800.

Biscuit Publishing meets the children from Chernobyl at Beamish Museum

On Tuesday 19th July, Biscuit Publishing's Brian Lister and Cornwell Internet's Jean Rogers and Roger Cornwell joined the visiting children and their interpreter on an excursion to Beamish Museum. Inset in the picture above are printer John Rowell, competition judge Pippa Little and typesetter Mike Wilson, who were unable to be there on the day.

Read more about Biscuit Publishing's competitions, with full details of all the winners and runners up.