{"id":181,"date":"2026-01-17T15:39:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/?p=181"},"modified":"2026-01-17T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:40:36","slug":"more-member-successes-and-publications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"More member successes and publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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<\/em> 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 | Literary Consultancy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim Wiltshire has also had a short story published on the online literary journal Funny Pearls<\/em>. Titled ‘Triple the price of a fruitcake’ it is a reworking of a monologue she was commissioned to write by the Royal Exchange over a decade ago – but Kim felt there was more to explore in the themes of marriage and names. You can read the story here: https:\/\/funnypearls.com\/2026\/01\/fruit-cake-wiltshire\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim’s short ten minute play, We Move On<\/em> was also one of the ten winners for Chesil Theatre’s Take Ten competition and will be performed between Feb 27th and March 1st this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally for this mini update, our very own Sarah Schofield will be running a workshop in February on The Subtle Art of Short Fiction following her chapter in Fly on the Wall’s new publication of the same name – check it out here but I think slots are filling up! The Subtle Art of Short Fiction: Online Workshop – Manchester City of Literature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3193,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,19,8,7,35,32,17],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-creative-writing","tag-edge-hill-university","tag-fiction-writers-network","tag-fin","tag-joanne-reardon","tag-kim-wiltshire","tag-sarah-schofield"],"yoast_head":"\nMore member successes and publications - Fiction Writer's Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More member successes and publications - Fiction Writer's Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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 […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fiction Writer's Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-17T15:39:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-17T15:40:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/files\/2023\/10\/cropped-creative-pen.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"416\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"416\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kim\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kim\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/\",\"name\":\"More member successes and publications - Fiction Writer's Network\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/408\/2023\/10\/cropped-creative-pen.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-17T15:39:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-17T15:40:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/#\/schema\/person\/8094ae669dc42833a4bb824d2734f9c1\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/408\/2023\/10\/cropped-creative-pen.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/408\/2023\/10\/cropped-creative-pen.jpg\",\"width\":416,\"height\":416,\"caption\":\"Edge Hill's Fiction Writer's Network\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"More member successes and publications\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/\",\"name\":\"Fiction Writer's Network\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/#\/schema\/person\/8094ae669dc42833a4bb824d2734f9c1\",\"name\":\"Kim\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/10\/cropped-creative-pen-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/10\/cropped-creative-pen-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Kim\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/author\/2208abb3310ca19721a01c3ca4d9d123\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"More member successes and publications - Fiction Writer's Network","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"More member successes and publications - Fiction Writer's Network","og_description":"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 […]","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/","og_site_name":"Fiction Writer's Network","article_published_time":"2026-01-17T15:39:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-01-17T15:40:36+00:00","og_image":[{"width":416,"height":416,"url":"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/files\/2023\/10\/cropped-creative-pen.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Kim","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kim","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/","name":"More member successes and publications - Fiction Writer's Network","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/408\/2023\/10\/cropped-creative-pen.jpg","datePublished":"2026-01-17T15:39:49+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-17T15:40:36+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/#\/schema\/person\/8094ae669dc42833a4bb824d2734f9c1"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/408\/2023\/10\/cropped-creative-pen.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/408\/2023\/10\/cropped-creative-pen.jpg","width":416,"height":416,"caption":"Edge Hill's Fiction Writer's Network"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/01\/17\/more-member-successes-and-publications\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"More member successes and publications"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/","name":"Fiction Writer's Network","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/#\/schema\/person\/8094ae669dc42833a4bb824d2734f9c1","name":"Kim","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/10\/cropped-creative-pen-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/10\/cropped-creative-pen-96x96.jpg","caption":"Kim"},"url":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/author\/2208abb3310ca19721a01c3ca4d9d123\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}