Peter John Hassall, of Zayed University Dubai, is deviser and editor of the 50-word Extremely Short Story Competition [ESSC] which he has run a number of times in universities, colleges and schools in the UAE, and with support from the British Council throughout the Arabian Peninsula. He is a member of IAWE (the International Association for World Englishes) and has helped run the ESSC seven times in Japan with close collaboration with the Japanese Association For Asian Englishes (JAFAE), and more recently with Japan Times. In 2014, Peter judged the ESSC run for Romanian Teachers of English by...