• 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.

  • New Short Story Collection Book Deal for FiN member AJ Ashworth

    Gold SF – a feminist speculative fiction/sci-fi imprint at Goldsmiths Press – is to publish a new short story collection by FiN member A. J. Ashworth. The publisher, whose aim is to promote ‘voices that answer to the unprecedented times in which we find ourselves’, acquired worldwide rights to Ashworth’s second collection Maybe the Birds in September…