Adrift, from Belize to Havana

This exciting anthology brings together in one volume a selection of the best new writing to come out of the 2002 Biscuit Prize. Forty up and coming writers are represented here; twenty poets, including winner Bob Beagrie, and twenty fiction writers, including the winner of the short story competition Veronica Lloyd.

"Bob Beagrie's poetry... represents writing from a busy and strangely beautiful mind. He is someone with a foothold in this world, but who also exists somewhere else entirely magical. Bob's strength is his authenticity of voice. He is a writer very much at home in his urban environment who can, nevertheless, capture great gentleness and beauty."

Maureen Almond

"What constitutes the perfect short story? The ability to draw in the reader, unveil the characters, set the scene, tell a good story and provoke thought? All of this blended with style and economy of words. This is the challenge to the writer. But this also presents a challenge to the reader, to grasp all of this in a few pages - and it poses an even greater challenge to the judge... However, the judging team were unanimous in the voting of Veronica Lloyd's Adrift, from Belize to Havana as the 2002 Biscuit Prize Short Story Winner. This beautifully written and evocative story is truly memorable."

Jacqui Lister

Adrift, from Belize to Havana includes fiction from: Veronica Lloyd, Cat Newman, Aine Maire Chadwick, Mick Parkin, Stephen Wade, John C. Anderson, Beda Higgins, Tom Bryan, Wendy Klein, Colette O'Hare, Kevin Outlaw, Tracey Fuller, Chrissie Gittins, Tim Bragg, Jan Lovell, Chris Sewart, Candi Miller, Noreen Rees, Mark s, and Josephine M. Fagan.

And poetry from: Bob Beagrie, Kate Rhodes, Beda Higgins, David Grubb, Sylvia Goodman, Margaret Wilmot, Mike Barlow, Penny Feinstein, Margaret Perry, Fay Marshall, Gerard Melia, A. C. Clarke, John Lindley, Chris McCabe, Janet Loverseed, Doreen Hinchliffe, Chris Kinsey, Sonia Royal, Chris Beckett and Anna Woodford.

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