• Fiction Writer’s Network Autumn 2026 Showcase

    Fiction Writer’s Network Autumn 2026 Showcase

    The FiN autumn showcase will take place on Tuesday 17th November at 7pm in the Arts Centre at Edge Hill University. Exploring what it means to be a writer, how and when we write, inspiration and practice, the showcase will feature alumni such as Julia Clayton, John Rutter and Carys Bray, alongside creative writing staff…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.