Ailsa Cox
@ailsacox.bsky.social
Writer and critic, Emerita Professor of Short Fiction at Edge Hill University UK.
Short stories, Precipitation, https://www.confingopublishing.uk/
https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Short-Stories-A-Routledge-Writers-Guide/Cox/p/book/9781032582481.
Short stories, Precipitation, https://www.confingopublishing.uk/
https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Short-Stories-A-Routledge-Writers-Guide/Cox/p/book/9781032582481.
A Personal Anthology, by Ailsa Cox
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A Personal Anthology, by Ailsa Cox
Each time I’ve prepared a new edition of Writing Short Stories, I’ve referred to some different texts from writers I haven’t mentioned before.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A Personal Anthology, by Ailsa Cox
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London and environs - come along!
The Goldsmiths Prize 2025 winner event!
@cdrose.bsky.social reading from his winning novel & in conversation with @asack.bsky.social.
📍@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
📅 14th January, from 7pm
FREE TIX 👇
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@cdrose.bsky.social reading from his winning novel & in conversation with @asack.bsky.social.
📍@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
📅 14th January, from 7pm
FREE TIX 👇
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C.D. Rose, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025
The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre Presents the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 in conversation with Amy Sackville, Chair of Judges.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
London and environs - come along!
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Oh, and malice, spite and the desire to humiliate are key | ✍️ Deborah Ross
My tips for Farage-style banter: first, pick a target. Are they alone?
Oh, and malice, spite and the desire to humiliate are key
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November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Oh, and malice, spite and the desire to humiliate are key | ✍️ Deborah Ross
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It's Wednesday evening and officially NEARLY the weekend... and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is @ailsacox.bsky.social, author of Precipitation (short stories) and Writing Short Stories (Routledge).
Details and sign up:
Details and sign up:
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...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It's Wednesday evening and officially NEARLY the weekend... and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is @ailsacox.bsky.social, author of Precipitation (short stories) and Writing Short Stories (Routledge).
Details and sign up:
Details and sign up:
Dear ENSFR members,
We are delighted to present an exclusive interview with Farhana Shaikh the founder of Dahlia Books, a short story press championing diverse and underrepresented voices.
The event will take place on Monday 24th November, at 6pm (UK time), over Teams.
We are delighted to present an exclusive interview with Farhana Shaikh the founder of Dahlia Books, a short story press championing diverse and underrepresented voices.
The event will take place on Monday 24th November, at 6pm (UK time), over Teams.
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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One week to publication of ELLE: a verse novel. Online launch and publication details here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books in November 2025 Details for PRE ORDER: Robert Sheppard - Elle, a ...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
One week to publication of ELLE: a verse novel. Online launch and publication details here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...
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There's still time to sign up for @shedworking.bsky.social's Personal Anthology - a dozen favourite short stories, picked and introduced.
Hitting inboxes 2pm!
Details below...
Hitting inboxes 2pm!
Details below...
It's Wednesday evening, and so nearly the weekend – and A Personal Anthology. This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is Alex Johnson a.k.a. @shedworking.bsky.social.
Sign up to get it your inboxes this Friday!
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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...
apersonalanthology.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
There's still time to sign up for @shedworking.bsky.social's Personal Anthology - a dozen favourite short stories, picked and introduced.
Hitting inboxes 2pm!
Details below...
Hitting inboxes 2pm!
Details below...
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@cdrose.bsky.social talking to Alex Clark & Lucy Dallas about We Live Here Now (@ 30mins 50seconds)
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Books of the Year | The TLS Podcast
This week, TLS contributors select their favourites from 2025; plus an interview with CD Rose, winner of this year’s Goldsmiths Prize.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
@cdrose.bsky.social talking to Alex Clark & Lucy Dallas about We Live Here Now (@ 30mins 50seconds)
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We're open for submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations. Please click on the link for our guidlesines #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We're open for submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations. Please click on the link for our guidlesines #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...
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Tears flowing in Storm Claudia-tossed Manchester, not for @iancritchley.bsky.social’s choosing Colette de Curzon’s @nightjarpress.bsky.social story in his Personal Anthology hosted by @jonathangibbs.bsky.social, nor for his kind words about me & The Cast, but for *his* story about his twin brother.
November 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Tears flowing in Storm Claudia-tossed Manchester, not for @iancritchley.bsky.social’s choosing Colette de Curzon’s @nightjarpress.bsky.social story in his Personal Anthology hosted by @jonathangibbs.bsky.social, nor for his kind words about me & The Cast, but for *his* story about his twin brother.
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We're currently open to submissions of novellas and collected short fiction for our 2026-27 publishing schedule! Find out more here: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
We're currently open to submissions of novellas and collected short fiction for our 2026-27 publishing schedule! Find out more here: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
Excellent venue for @nicholasroyle.bsky.social launch. Handy for those of us travelling on the Calder Valley Line!
Join us this Thursday for the launch of Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle, the final volume in his city-based story collections. Date: 13 November. Time: 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Venue: Pizza Express, Corn Exchange, Manchester. Free entry but RSVP.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Excellent venue for @nicholasroyle.bsky.social launch. Handy for those of us travelling on the Calder Valley Line!
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We're very proud to announce the winner of this year's prize: Edith Hall's compelling & insightful 'Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me' (Yale UP). A brilliant, moving book for experts & general readers alike - congratulations @edithmayhall.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social!
November 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We're very proud to announce the winner of this year's prize: Edith Hall's compelling & insightful 'Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me' (Yale UP). A brilliant, moving book for experts & general readers alike - congratulations @edithmayhall.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social!
Fascinating discussion from Katherine Clements and fellow @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social author Neil McRobert in Todmorden last night. Worth the long spooky walk to get to Fielden Hall.
THE FINAL BOOK IN THE NORTHERN WEIRD PROJECT IS HERE!
Turbine 34 by Katherine Clements🧡 🖤
Camped out alone at Turbine 34, an unnamed scientist soon discovers signs of the devastation and begins to see things that shouldn’t be there...
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Turbine 34 by Katherine Clements🧡 🖤
Camped out alone at Turbine 34, an unnamed scientist soon discovers signs of the devastation and begins to see things that shouldn’t be there...
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/turb...
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Fascinating discussion from Katherine Clements and fellow @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social author Neil McRobert in Todmorden last night. Worth the long spooky walk to get to Fielden Hall.
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🧵 A remarkable discovery by Portico Library volunteer Rebecca Lamb has revealed that Charles Dickens signed the Library’s Strangers’ Book in May 1844 — confirming that one of the world’s most celebrated novelists once stepped inside Manchester’s oldest subscription library...
November 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🧵 A remarkable discovery by Portico Library volunteer Rebecca Lamb has revealed that Charles Dickens signed the Library’s Strangers’ Book in May 1844 — confirming that one of the world’s most celebrated novelists once stepped inside Manchester’s oldest subscription library...
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A happy C.D. Rose, shortly after winning our 2025 Prize last night @foylesforbooks.bsky.social.
Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social
Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A happy C.D. Rose, shortly after winning our 2025 Prize last night @foylesforbooks.bsky.social.
Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social
Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social
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@cdrose.bsky.social is the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner!!! So, so well deserved ❤️🏆 Read WE LIVE HERE NOW! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
@cdrose.bsky.social is the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner!!! So, so well deserved ❤️🏆 Read WE LIVE HERE NOW! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social
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I've added details about the online reading on 29th November launching my Broken Sleep book ELLE to my post about the book and buying the book: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books in November 2025 Details for PRE ORDER: Robert Sheppard - Elle, a ...
robertsheppard.blogspot.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I've added details about the online reading on 29th November launching my Broken Sleep book ELLE to my post about the book and buying the book: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...
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Horror Studies 16.2 is out now!
Including ‘Shadow agents: Ecohorror and ambient dread in Vampyr (1932)’ by Benjamin Bigelow.
#horrorstudies Popular Culture Association
Access the issue via Discover 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/host/16/2
Including ‘Shadow agents: Ecohorror and ambient dread in Vampyr (1932)’ by Benjamin Bigelow.
#horrorstudies Popular Culture Association
Access the issue via Discover 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/host/16/2
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Horror Studies 16.2 is out now!
Including ‘Shadow agents: Ecohorror and ambient dread in Vampyr (1932)’ by Benjamin Bigelow.
#horrorstudies Popular Culture Association
Access the issue via Discover 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/host/16/2
Including ‘Shadow agents: Ecohorror and ambient dread in Vampyr (1932)’ by Benjamin Bigelow.
#horrorstudies Popular Culture Association
Access the issue via Discover 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/host/16/2
A great shortlist @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social. Some names very familiar @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Every one a winner but good luck @cdrose.bsky.social
'A book with an innovative approach will ... deliver no message.... But, lord, you will have experienced something.'
@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now
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@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now
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CD Rose Q&A: “Novels are like massive clouds which lower overhead”
The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the art world, how we measure value and the role of criticism today
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November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A great shortlist @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social. Some names very familiar @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Every one a winner but good luck @cdrose.bsky.social
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Every Sunday I’ll be contributing a paperback column to the Observer’s New Review. Kicking things off is Driver by Mattia Filice (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), who’s poured his experience of 2 decades working on the French rail network into an extraordinary verse novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Every Sunday I’ll be contributing a paperback column to the Observer’s New Review. Kicking things off is Driver by Mattia Filice (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), who’s poured his experience of 2 decades working on the French rail network into an extraordinary verse novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Final reminder to get your entries in! Competition closes on Friday 😊
Giveaway! 🎉
We're offering four copies of our new book, Women Who Dared, which spotlights powerful and defiant women who made their mark.
Want to win a copy?
Here's how to enter:
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We're offering four copies of our new book, Women Who Dared, which spotlights powerful and defiant women who made their mark.
Want to win a copy?
Here's how to enter:
1. Like this post ❤️
2. Repost 🔄
🕔 Entries close 5pm GMT on 31 Oct
🔗 Browse Women Who Dared:
Women Who Dared
Women Who Dared
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October 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Correct link: www.youtube.com/@bbcarchive
BBC Archive
Welcome to the BBC Archive.
Hop aboard an audiovisual time machine, that will transport you back to the golden age of TV.
Whether you are looking for some childhood nostalgia (clackers - remember t...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.
June 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.