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More member successes and publications
New member Joanne Reardon is one of the ten prize winners for the Blue Pencil Literary Agency Pitch Prize with her new novel Mr H’s Angel so do keep an eye out here for more news on that! You can find out more about the prize here: Pitch Prize Winners 2025 | Blue Pencil Agency…
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Fiction Writer’s Network Updates
There has been a lot happening in FiN over the past few months. Alongside the book launch of AJ Ashworth’s marvellous collection, Maybe The Birds, we have had two new members join the network. Dr Joanne Reardon, novelist and academic at The Open University (About Jo – Jo Reardon), and Dr Naomi Kruger, short story…
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Ailsa Cox edits a personal anthology of the Short Story
Ailsa Cox has edited a personal anthology of 12 of her favourite short stories, which can be found at this link. A Personal Anthology, by Ailsa Cox – by Jonathan Gibbs This is a lovely blog to subscribe to, with different guest editors choosing stories that have moved them, engaged and encouraged them, and it…
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The New Academic Year for FiN
As we look forward to the new first years starting induction week on Monday 29th September, we also look forward to an exciting year for the Fiction Writer’s Network. We have a new member starting, Dr Joanne Reardon, who we are very much looking forward to welcoming, and we have our first event of the…
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A Reminder about Maybe the Birds
AJ Ashworth’s new collection of 14 speculative short stories called Maybe The Birds will be published on August 19th 2025 with a book launch at Edge Hill’s Arts Centre on Tuesday October 21st.
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End of Academic Year round up!
With the teaching over for another (academic) year, we’ve got time to take a breather and look at what is coming up for the Fiction Writer’s Network in the next few months. Ailsa Cox’s story ‘Poltergeist’, which the network workshopped earlier in the year, will be published in the next issue of the Manchester Review,…
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Professor Ailsa Cox’s Book Launch – April 2nd 2025
The launch of Ailsa Cox’s mini-collection Precipitation will take place at the Saul Hay Gallery in Manchester on Wednesday 2nd April, 7.30pm. Book early to avoid disappointment!
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Bernie McGill Event at EHU Arts Centre – February 19th
Our second Fiction Writer’s Network event in collaboration with the Edge Hill Short Story Prize will take place at the EHU Arts Centre on Wednesday February 19th, starting at 6.30pm. FiN will welcome the 2023 winner of the prize, Bernie McGill.
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Rodge Glass and FiN members event 26th November
ng on 26th November this year, as part of the Fiction Writers Network practice as research events. Former EHU Creative Writing lecturer Rodge Glass joined us as part of his huge tour for his memoir Joshua In The Sky to read and take part in a Q&A session, which was the second half of the…
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First FiN event of the Academic Year
Rodge Glass, former EHU Creative Writing Lecturer (before moving to Strathclyde University) is coming to the Arts Centre at Edge Hill to read from his new memoir Joshua in the Sky on Tuesday 26th November, starting at 6.30pm.
