{"id":164,"date":"2025-07-23T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/?p=164"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:32:35","slug":"a-reminder-about-maybe-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2025\/07\/23\/a-reminder-about-maybe-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reminder about Maybe the Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just a reminder that AJ Ashworth&#8217;s new collection of speculative short stories will be published on August 19th 2025 &#8211; but you can pre-order here! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/goldsmiths-press\/publications\/maybe-the-birds\/\">Maybe the Birds | Goldsmiths Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Edge Hill Fiction Writer&#8217;s Network will also be holding a launch event for AJ Ashworth on Tuesday October 21st &#8211; you can book tickets for that event here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/event\/book-launch-event-a-j-ashworth-maybe-the-birds\/\">Book Launch Event: A. J. Ashworth \u2013 Maybe the Birds &#8211; Edge Hill University<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/408\/2025\/07\/57F1EAAF-053A-422C-B29B-DC62FAB1BF85_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/408\/2025\/07\/57F1EAAF-053A-422C-B29B-DC62FAB1BF85_1_105_c.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/408\/2025\/07\/57F1EAAF-053A-422C-B29B-DC62FAB1BF85_1_105_c-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/408\/2025\/07\/57F1EAAF-053A-422C-B29B-DC62FAB1BF85_1_105_c-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe The Birds is a collection of 14 speculative and realist short stories that explore female lives and experiences and are set in either the postapocalyptic future, the paleolithic past or the dark north of the present. All are interested in what it means to be alive in very difficult times. In this event,&nbsp;there will be readings from members of the Fiction Writer&#8217;s Network followed by Andrea, who&nbsp;will read from her new collection and also take part in a Q&amp;A with Dr Kim Wiltshire, and you will have the opportunity to get your copy signed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ashworth&#8217;s work has won a number of prizes and been featured in&nbsp;<em>Best British Short Stories. The Times Literary Supplement&nbsp;<\/em>said of her first book,&nbsp;<em>Somewhere Else, or Even Here&nbsp;<\/em>(shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize), that her work &#8216;displays impressive versatility&#8217; and that her stories &#8216;do not progress so much as accrue, collecting incidental detail that enriches the scenarios without pointing towards their resolution&#8217;. 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