• 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.