{"id":183,"date":"2026-03-06T16:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/?p=183"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:35:17","slug":"fin-event-on-march-17th-celebrating-20-years-of-the-edge-hill-prize-with-winner-tessa-hadley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/fin\/2026\/03\/06\/fin-event-on-march-17th-celebrating-20-years-of-the-edge-hill-prize-with-winner-tessa-hadley\/","title":{"rendered":"FiN Event on March 17th Celebrating 20 Years of the Edge Hill Prize with winner Tessa Hadley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evening will see Prof. Ailsa Cox, the world&#8217;s only professor of the short story and Edge Hill&#8217;s Professor Emerita, opening the evening with a discussion about the importance of the prize and the short story as a form of creative writing, which Edge Hill as a university is most well known for. 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