COMPETITIONS
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's chosen prize is 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, and her solo collection of prose and poetry appears early in 2013
More information about the 2012 Combo Competition, including a full list of winners.
2011 Competitions: Winners' Booke Published
The First Prizewinner in Biscuit's 2011 International Short Story Competition was Tom Bryan (also a runner-up in the 2012 Combo), 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. Tom's prize is the publication of hiscollection of short stories, The Bridge-Keeper's Log Book
Full results of the Biscuit Short Story Competition 2011, including all winners and runners up, and the Judge's remarks.
First Prize in the special Poetry Challenge went to Gordon Simms for his poem Embarking from Port Ellen. Gordon's prize was the publication of a collection of his poems Uphill to the Sea. Entries to the competition raised £700 for the Chernobyl children's visit to Hexham, Northumberland. Mike Wilson, our typesetter, has donated a further £100; we therefore raised £800 to hand to the Hexham branch of the Chernobyl Children's Lifeline (CCLL).
More information about the Poetry Challenge 2011, including the full list of winning poems, and details of the Chernobyl Children's Lifeline.
