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Dr Andrea Ashworth <\/strong>(A. J. Ashworth) is the author of the short story collection Somewhere Else, or Even Here, <\/em>which won Salt Publishing’s Scott Prize and was shortlisted in the Edge Hill Prize. She is also the editor of Red Room: New Short Stories Inspired by the Bront\u00ebs. <\/em>She has won numerous awards including a K. Blundell Trust Award and has a PhD in creative writing from Edge Hill. She is working on a new collection of short stories, one of which was selected for Best British Short Stories 2021, <\/em>and is an associate editor of the journal Short Fiction in Theory and Practice. <\/em>Her website is at: www.ajashworth.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Links to stories online:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Birthday’: https:\/\/fictivedream.com\/2022\/09\/25\/birthday\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Zero Gravity’: http:\/\/www.lablit.com\/article\/534<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Species’: https:\/\/visualverse.org\/submissions\/species\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elizabeth Baines<\/strong> is a short-story writer, novelist and playwright. Her prize-winning short stories have been published widely in magazines and anthologies, and her two collections are Balancing on the Edge of the World<\/em> and Used to Be<\/em> (Salt). Her three novels are The Birth Machine<\/em>, Too Many Magpies<\/em> and Astral Travel<\/em> (all published by Salt). She is the author of several Radio 4 dramas, including a vampire serial, a comedy series and an adaptation of her own novel The Birth Machine<\/em>. She has written, performed and produced plays for fringe theatre. Her work explores power relations both personal and societal aPnd is often concerned with the power of story-telling. She has contributed chapters to books on Creative Writing and literary theory, and has reviewed fiction and literary theory for Short Fiction in Theory and Practice<\/em>. With Ailsa Cox she co-founded and -edited the acclaimed (discontinued) short-story magazine metropolitan<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Published fiction: https:\/\/www.saltpublishing.com\/collections\/author-elizabeth-baines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radio drama audiobook: https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/authors\/301655\/elizabeth-baines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story, ed. Vanessa Gebbie: https:\/\/www.saltpublishing.com\/collections\/author-vanessa-gebbie\/products\/short-circuit-9781907773440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Creative Writing Handbook, ed. John Singleton and Mary Luckhurst: https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Creative-Writing-Handbook-John-Singleton\/dp\/0333792262<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Carys Bray<\/strong> is the author of a short story collection and three novels. Her work has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Award (First Novel) and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and she won the 2015 Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. Her short fiction has been broadcast on Radio Four and her novel A Song for Issy Bradley<\/em> was a Book at Bedtime. Her most recent novel, When the Lights Go Out<\/em> was a Times Best Paperback of 2021. Carys has worked with writers in the community and as a Creative Writing lecturer on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. She was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.carysbray.co.uk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Julia Clayton<\/strong> studied Economics at the London School of Economics before taking an MA in Ancient History at King\u2019s College London. From 1996-2019 she was Head of Classics at King George V College in Southport.  After taking the MA Creative Writing course at Edge Hill she retired from teaching in order to concentrate on writing and research; her PhD thesis on Invented Artworks, Class & Authenticity in fiction is due to be completed in 2024.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Julia\u2019s short stories focus on how we interact with the past through art, architecture and archaeological artefacts. Her work has been published in various outlets, including Fairlight Shorts<\/em>, Lucent Dreaming<\/em>, Writers\u2019 Caf\u00e9<\/em>, the Telegraph<\/em> website and the Oxford Flash Fiction Anthology<\/em>. Several of her stories have been shortlisted for the FISH International Short Story Prize and the Much Wenlock Olympian Short Story Prize, and she has also been  longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn Wexford Short Story Prize, the Parracombe Prize and the Exeter Short Story Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Links to Published Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The British Usurper\u2019, Fairlight Books, May 2020 https:\/\/www.fairlightbooks.co.uk\/short_stories\/the-british-usurper<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Caf\u00e9 Herakles\u2019, Lucent Dreaming<\/em>, Issue 10, December 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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