Biscuit Flash Fiction Competition 2010

Janice Braysher, her husband and their two children lived in British Forces Germany for almost two decades. When the family returned to Yorkshire a few years ago, Janice rediscovered writing creatively for the first time since primary school. She maintains age is no barrier.

Janice was awarded second prize in the 2009 Swanwick Poetry Competition, and is finding time to work on her first novel.

Janice has chosen to take her prize in the form of a payment of £1000, and has already received her cheque.

James Tipton lives with his wife Martha and his daughter Gabriela in the tropical mountains of central Mexico.

He writes and publishes poems, short stories, and book reviews. His most recent book, a collection of short poems, is All the Horses of Heaven (MET Press, 2009).

Jo Colley is a poet and prose writer who lives in Darlington. Her previous publications include As If (Vane Women, 2002), Punchdrunk (Ek Zuban, 2005) and Weeping for the Lovely Phantoms (Salt, 2007).

This is the first time she has written Flash Fiction.

Jo Colley's web site.

All are Highly Commended and their stories will appear in the forthcoming Winners' anthology, alongside the top ten from the 2010 Short Story Competition.

Maj Abrahamsson grew up in a forest in Sweden. She now lives in London where she studies illustration and befriends stray cats.

She has previously been published in Ambit after winning third price in their 200 word competition.

Soheila Beski, born in 1953, in Tehran, has published two collections of short stories in Iran and four novels abroad (in Persian). Two of the novels were published in Iran last year after so many years rejection for permit, and the other two have not yet got publishing permits.

Rohith Bandaratilaka resides in Colombo. Sri Lanka.

This is the first time any article written by him has been accepted for publication, and for which he considers himself as being extremely lucky and honoured!

He is a retired Merchant Navy Chief Engineer.

Warren Paul Glover is an aspiring English writer now living in Sydney. Warren has had several poems and short stories published and broadcast on radio, and has won two screenwriting competitions. He is currently working on a novel, and is looking for representation for his first feature film script.

Mark Dalligan, wanting to be a writer, majored in American Lit. at the University of Sussex but finished up in Banking. Now he's started stringing words together with online and print success.

A carefully grown novel will blossom next year at which point he will be looking for a publisher.

Mollie Baxter is a writer, tutor, musician and editor. She is currently working on a flash fiction collection, If I Believe What I Say I Know and some of her short stories can be found in Before the Rain (Flax 2008). For blogs, news and free writing exercises drop by www.molliebaxter.com.

Salwa M. El Hamamsy, an Egyptian writer, was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1968. She started publishing her writings in 1993 as a short story writer and since then she has published three short story collections, in addition to a travel literature book about Singapore and another English book about Egypt.

In 2004, she started writing articles on main public issues in Al Ahram newspaper. Her writings were influenced by her ethical and reforming trend as well as her travels around the world with her husband, who works as a diplomat. She had so many seminars on her writings in Egypt and UAE.