Ailsa Cox

FiN Event on March 17th Celebrating 20 Years of the Edge Hill Prize with winner Tessa Hadley - Fiction Writer's Network 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 profe...

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BBC Radio 4 - Fire Ready by Jane Rogers, Murmuration A spaceship returns to Earth after a long journey seeking other habitable planets.

Tune into to Radio 4 tonight for the second reading from Jane Rogers’ brilliant second collection, Fire Ready. 10.45pm tonight. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

'Michael is superb at forcing the reader to confront uncomfortable questions about poverty and the well-meaning outsiders who seek to end it.'

Just over a week until short story collection submissions close!
Then we will have a month of reading - before novel and novella submissions open :)

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A Personal Anthology, by Paul McAuley ‘A Way Home’ by Theodore Sturgeon (First published in Amazing Stories, 1953.

@jonathangibbs.bsky.social 's A Personal Anthology project now features over 300 guest editors. I'm honoured to be the latest -- my selection of 12 stories that have taken up permanent residence in my head can be found here:

Congratulations Livi! Looking forward to the launch @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social

Publication Day!
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An illustrated manuscript of a single candle on a table.

Today marks Holocaust Memorial Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp.

To commemorate, we’re sharing a small selection of survivors’ stories from our collection – voices preserved in memory and testimony.

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A ★★★★½ review of Sentimental Value (2025) Something of a gruelling watch. I only realised afterwards how tense I'd been in the cinema. Tense, I suppose, because I knew it was going to put me through the wringer (similar to Matthias Glasner's ...

Finally saw Sentimental Value. I want to watch this again, but there are parts of it that I really don't want to have to sit through, for that to happen.

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Echoes of Jay Kelly, but this is a better film. And there are funny bits...honestly there are.....

Walsall residents respond to a survey naming it the most deprived town in the UK - BBC News Walsall residents respond to reports living there is like "an episode of Shameless".

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My home town, top of the league every time.

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A hero, a legend, a great and kind man.

Wild Hunt Books are seeking short stories (1500-5000 words) for our upcoming anthology, Modern Decadent. The anthology embraces the fin de siècle literary and arts of the decadents & more

Submissions are now open and close on 1st February 2026, 20:00 GMT 🖤

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Good news for Scottish writers. Kirsty Gunn's also a great short story writer, former winner of @edgehillprize.bsky.social.

About - A Personal Anthology A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...

Hey, cool cats! This is to let you know that A Personal Anthology is back, baby! Yes: back! Back! BACK!

Today's anthology features a dozen favourite short stories picked and introduced by Mike Fox (@polyscribe70.bsky.social), and hits inboxes at 2pm.

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Out today! Meet Alexander Manshel, Associate Professor of English at McGill University. How is contemporary short fiction in America influenced by the people and institutions that contribute to its production, circulation, and reception? Listen here to find out:

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My thoughts exactly, remembering how hard I used to be on students who use Wikipedia. At least it wasn't AI scraping my books and garbling them.

How is contemporary short fiction in America influenced by the people and institutions that contribute to its production, circulation, and reception? Stay tuned to find out! Alexander Manshel is Associate Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal (Canada).

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Do come along on Monday 12th January to this online event to honour the enduring legacy of Charles E. May’s Short Story Theories (1976)!

It’s a true honour to be part of this event together with @ailsacox.bsky.social, Michael Basseler and Michael Collins!

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Congratulations! Can't wait to get my hands on a copy.

Join me online next Monday for an @ensfr.bsky.social chat about this great book, with Michael Basseler, Michael Collins and Andrea Marzocchi @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social.

‘“The Hands” moves from the slightly mysterious to the downright sinister’ - Anna Aslanyan reviews Paris Fantastique by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for @thetls.bsky.social

There was a great production once at the Royal Exchange in Manchester with David Threlfall. Hoping some one has bought me tickets for his King Lear @rxtheatre.bsky.social

Out today!

Looking for a festive treat? Listen to this very special episode with twelve authors reading their own stories!

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