• FiN Event on March 17th Celebrating 20 Years of the Edge Hill Prize with winner Tessa Hadley

    FiN Event on March 17th Celebrating 20 Years of the Edge Hill Prize with winner Tessa Hadley

    We will be celebrating 20 years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize at the Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, on March 17th starting at 7pm. The evening will see Prof. Ailsa Cox, the world’s only professor of the short story and Edge Hill’s Professor Emerita, opening the evening with a discussion about the importance…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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!

  • Ailsa Cox new short story collection and study of Alice Munro

    Precipitation is a collection of three stories by Ailsa Cox, two of which are published for the first time. It also features images created by the artist Patricia Farrell in response to the stories. The book is the fifth in a series of collaborations between writers and artists published by Manchester-based Cōnfingō Publishing.