Ailsa Cox
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Ailsa Cox
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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. .. more

Art 45%
Communication & Media Studies 23%

I've watched The Sopranos twice, my husband three times. Enjoy.

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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 ...
robertsheppard.blogspot.com

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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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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.

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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...
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Or which novel you wish was a short story!

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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...

Happy day-after-birthday!

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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.

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.

confingopublishing.uk/event-list

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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.

confingopublishing.uk/event-list

Often, yes, but I was cheered to see Chris Power's name amongst the judges and David Szalay's Turbulence is great. If nothing else, let's celebrate the fact that he's not a Yank, come over here to steal our prizes.

Turbulence is great too.

Their long blue trains go past my window, chalking up the miles of cash.

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...

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/turb...

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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...

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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

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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...

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/turb...

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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

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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

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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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
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

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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!

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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...

Think I might have got rid of my Bradbury anthology and now regret that I did that! The Intro is also well worth a read.

One of my favourites!
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...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk

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'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

www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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
www.newstatesman.com

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