The Possibility of Bears

The Possibility of Bears brings together fourteen prize-winning pieces of short fiction, seven short stories and seven flash fictions which, say the judges of the 2009 Biscuit Competitions, reassure us that real story-tellers are still thriving amongst us, and demonstrate how much humour, pathos, intelligence - and some most engaging writing - can be packed into even the shortest of narrative forms.

The collection brings together the short stories which took first, second and third prizes, plus the four top runners up, and the winning flash fiction plus six runners up.

Short story authors are Douglas Bruton, Holly Patrone, Beth Duke, Paul Gresty, Pauline Plummer, Richard Knight and Koraljka Mestrovic; they come from as far away as Alabama in the USA and as near Biscuit Publishing's home as the North East of England (and from Croatia and Scotland, too).

Flash Fiction authors all come from the British Isles: that's England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and - in the case of First Prize winner Cheryl Lee Latter - the Channel Islands. Cheryl is joined by Amy Burns, Jacqueline Escolme, David Strickland, Gordon Williams - and, remarkably, by Douglas Bruton! Although there were 377 entries in the Flash Fiction Competition, and 406 short stories, all of which were judged anonymously, Douglas Bruton managed to pull off the double, winning First Prize in the Short Story Competition, and Highly Commended in the Flash Fiction!

Read more about Biscuit Publishing Competitions.

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