COMPETITIONS
A new kind of Competition: the 'Combo'!
Biscuit's next international prose fiction competition is something new: is it a flash fiction competition? is it a short story competition? yes, it's both!
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!
Entry to the Short Fiction Combo Prize closed on 31st January 2012. Biscuit Publishing thanks all of those who have submitted work. The full results will be published on this website on 31st March 2012. You can still read the Rules here.
2011 Competitions: the Winners
The First Prizewinner in Biscuit's 2011 International Short Story Competition is Tom Bryan, 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 choice between publication of a book plus £500 plus 75 books, or a £1,500 cash award. He has taken the first option, and we look forward to publishing his collection of short stories in 2012.
Second Prize winner L. F. Roth lives in Sweden, and Third Prizewinner James Lawless in Ireland; the Biscuit Short Story isn't called 'International' for nothing! (Runners up come from England, including Biscuit's home territory in the North East, as well as the USA.)
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 goes to Gordon Simms for his poem Embarking from Port Ellen. Gordon's prize is the publication of a collection of his poems (since this was a fund-raising competition, there is no cash option). 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), a national charity founded after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear power station in 1986, to help fund a visit by children from Chernobyl to the north east of England.
Competition judge Pippa Little was delighted with the sheer variety of all of the work submitted, and its very different viewpoints on the world. She said: " Opening the poem-crammed box file felt like being handed a sweetie jar with the instruction to 'dig in!'" The winning poem and runners up will be published in the 2011 Biscuit Prizewinners' Anthology.
More information about the Poetry Challenge 2011, including the full list of winning poems, and details of the Chernobyl Children's Lifeline.
Celebration Event
The winners' anthology will be launched at a special 'Biscuit Celebratory Event' to be held on Thursday 22nd September 2011 at the Literary and Philosophical Society (aka the Lit & Phil). We are still working on the programme for this event, but I can reveal it will run from lunchtime right through to evening, and will contain an eclectic line-up of writers.
Every winning writer is invited to be there. And you too will be made welcome - please join us on this very special occasion. There are more details on the Events page, so why not come along?
