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.

2011 Winners' Launch

Biscuit Publishing will celebrate the winners of its 2011 Competitions on Thursday 22nd March 2012, at 7.00pm in the Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE.

This will be a double book launch, for 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.

Everyone is invited to join us and enjoy the work of two writers who really do take the Biscuit!

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.

A new kind of Competition: the 'Combo'!

As Biscuit Publishing celebrates the winners of our 2011 competitions, there is still time to enter our 2012 prose fiction competition - with a completely new twist!

Submit a Short Story (with a word count between 1000 and 5000 words, and a Flash Fiction (to a maximum of 750 words, and no minimum!), and you could win a First Prize of publication of your book, whether it's a collection of short stories, of flashes, a novella - or a combination of all three disciplines, plus £500 advance royalties and 75 books. Or you could elect to take your prize in cash and win £1,500.

The Combo Competition is now open, and the closing date for submissions is 31st January 2012. Read the Rules and how to enter here.

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.