About

Becky Tipper writes short fiction and non-fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared online and in print, in publications including FlashBack Fiction, The Honest Ulsterman, The Lampeter Review, Prole, Literary Mama, Seren Books, and For Books’ Sake. Her fiction has won the Bridport Prize and a Tom-Gallon Trust Award from the Society of Authors, and has been commissioned by the University of Manchester. She is Reviews Editor at online literary magazine The Short Story.

[Becky Tipper’s ‘The Rabbit’ is] an immediately likeable story, beautifully crafted, elegantly written with all the arts of a born storyteller… A writer of real promise.”
PAUL BAILEY and FAY WELDON
Judges for the Tom-Gallon Award

“The flash fiction pieces were extremely penetrating and confident… Becky Tipper’s ‘Meeting the Lobster’ genuinely takes the reader through a journey of increasing emotional identification…”
A.L. KENNEDY
Judge for the Bridport Prize

“[Becky Tipper’s] ‘Birth Stories’… is a truly excellent piece of writing…  Anybody who has ever trotted out the cliché ‘all that matters is a healthy baby’ should be made to read this work…”
MILLI HILL, Founder of the Positive Birth Movement
Judge for the Mother’s Milk Writing Prize