Rachel Edwards
Rachel Edwards is an author with Fourth Estate, HarperCollins. Her second novel, Lucky – a tale about race, migration, betrayal, online gambling and the risks we all
take to survive – was published on 24th June 2021. It follows on from the success of her acclaimed debut, Darling, published in 2018.
An alumna of King’s College London, she worked in publishing, won a national Arts Council award for her fiction and became a freelance writer for over 12 years until she chose to focus full-time on writing novels.
Rachel has appeared at literary festivals and events around the UK. Her articles have featured across the national media including in The Guardian and The Sunday Times. During the summer of 2020, she featured as lead columnist for The Sunday
Times Magazine. She is a regular guest on BBC Radio, featuring on Woman’s Hour in 2019 and 2020. She lives in Somerset.
Eliot Li
Eliot Li is a Chinese American writer who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has appeared in CRAFT Literary, SmokeLong Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, trampset, The Pinch, pidgeonholes, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the 2021 Pinch Literary Awards, and runner up for the 2022 New Flash Fiction Prize.
He will soon be joining the editorial staff at SmokeLong Quarterly.
Patricia Quintana Bidar
Patricia Quintana Bidar is a working class writer from the Port of Los Angeles area. Her work appears in Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Pinch, Pithead Chapel, and Atticus Review, among other journals, and in numerous anthologies.
Patricia’s collection of short fiction was a recent finalist in the Moon City Fiction Award and Gold Line Press Competition. Her story, “Over There,” appears in the Flash Fiction America anthology (W.W. Norton, 2023). She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in filmmaking from San Francisco State University and a Master’s Degree in English from University of California, Davis.
Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 