Here are videos from people who entered work into our fiction categories in the Brit Writers' Awards Unpublished 2010.

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Teacher and mum Emma Owen got to the final 30 for one of the picture stories from her collection, The Chiku Stories, which are aimed at five to eight-year-olds. Emma's tales are about a boy named Chiku and his friends and family, who live in a village on the shores of Lake Malawi.




This video gives a preview of Saqib Noor's short story entitled 'Nine Loves in Nine Lives', which is "dedicated to those that have lost someone special" and is about finding and losing one's love in different times and political situations. Check out the beautiful accompanying music by Sigur Ros.



Tomás Clarke submitted entries into our Under-16s poetry and short story categories. Check out Tomás's amazingly creative video in which he uses a variety of techniques (including writing in crayon, sand and even LEGO!) to convey why he loves to write. There's also a flick-book to summarise Tomás's short story...



Anastasia Pope is a teaching assistant at a high school in Norfolk. Her first novel, Brutal Lovers, is predominantly about domestic violence. Anastasia says Brutal Lovers is special because it is "written from the heart". She hopes it will "give people the strength ... to escape their destructive relationship".



Have you ever wondered why people talk to plants? Science teacher Colin Pascoe's novel Troika is set in Cornwall, 30 years in the past. In it "someone learns the answer to the mystery of life, the universe and everything". But is this dramatic new theory true - or is the character merely insane?



Wendy in Bristol (originally from Wales), who only started writing three years ago, has entered our fiction category with a story called Into the Wild. It's about a secret garden - a theme which Wendy admits could be "a bit of a cliché", but she hopes to have added "an edge and a twist in the tale".



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