• Member’s March News

    Member’s March News

    After the fantastic event at EHU Arts Centre on Tuesday 17th with Tessa Hadley, Ailsa Cox, Carys Bray and Julia Clayton, we have some more great news. Andrea Ashworth’s (AJ Ashworth) second collection Maybe the Birds was longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Awards longlist last month. The prize has been running since 1970 and seeks…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • A Reminder about Maybe the Birds

    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.

  • 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,…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • First FiN event of the Academic Year

    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.