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.
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 ...
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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
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
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
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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🔗 Browse Women Who Dared:
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
Final reminder to get your entries in! Competition closes on Friday 😊
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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
Correct link: www.youtube.com/@bbcarchive
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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.
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I've just updated the apersonalanthology.com website with Becky Tipper’s selection of a dozen favourite short stories.
Check them out here, along with over 3,400 other personal short story recommendations!
Check them out here, along with over 3,400 other personal short story recommendations!
A Personal Anthology
Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories
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October 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I've just updated the apersonalanthology.com website with Becky Tipper’s selection of a dozen favourite short stories.
Check them out here, along with over 3,400 other personal short story recommendations!
Check them out here, along with over 3,400 other personal short story recommendations!
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‘Taints’, a short story @bansheepress.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/taints-...
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
‘Taints’, a short story @bansheepress.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/taints-...
A wonderful article from Julian Barnes, and a reminder that writers are not alway likeable or virtuous, and that publishers are not all bad.
‘Today’s publishers must be relieved they do not have to deal with Flaubert, or some mutant facsimile of him; at worst, they have to put up with writers who are crazy, or criminal, or incorrigible hermits.’
Julian Barnes on Flaubert’s relationship with his publisher.
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Julian Barnes on Flaubert’s relationship with his publisher.
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Julian Barnes · Ouvriers de luxe: Author v. Publisher
Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published by...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
A wonderful article from Julian Barnes, and a reminder that writers are not alway likeable or virtuous, and that publishers are not all bad.
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There's still time to sign up for today's Personal Anthology, in which Tim MacGabhann picks and introduces a dozen favourite stories. Some doozies in there, some surprises and old favourites and even a sneak preview!
Hitting inboxes at 2pm, sign up and share!
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Hitting inboxes at 2pm, sign up and share!
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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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October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
There's still time to sign up for today's Personal Anthology, in which Tim MacGabhann picks and introduces a dozen favourite stories. Some doozies in there, some surprises and old favourites and even a sneak preview!
Hitting inboxes at 2pm, sign up and share!
apersonalanthology.substack.com/about
Hitting inboxes at 2pm, sign up and share!
apersonalanthology.substack.com/about
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New Episode!
William Saroyan was an Armenian-American writer and a true short story genius. In this episode, I get to chat about his life and works with Scott Setrakian, President of the William Saroyan Foundation.
Listen here: www.spreaker.com/episode/will...
William Saroyan was an Armenian-American writer and a true short story genius. In this episode, I get to chat about his life and works with Scott Setrakian, President of the William Saroyan Foundation.
Listen here: www.spreaker.com/episode/will...
October 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
New Episode!
William Saroyan was an Armenian-American writer and a true short story genius. In this episode, I get to chat about his life and works with Scott Setrakian, President of the William Saroyan Foundation.
Listen here: www.spreaker.com/episode/will...
William Saroyan was an Armenian-American writer and a true short story genius. In this episode, I get to chat about his life and works with Scott Setrakian, President of the William Saroyan Foundation.
Listen here: www.spreaker.com/episode/will...
Oh the lost trails, the might have beens, the faded typescripts, literally in the bottom drawer, the necessity of boredom....
Exactly me, today. To face this: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-d...
October 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Oh the lost trails, the might have beens, the faded typescripts, literally in the bottom drawer, the necessity of boredom....
Great news! @lucycaldwell.bsky.social has been shortlisted twice for @edgehillprize.bsky.social. That's how good she is.
I’m thrilled to be able to share this with you! My fourth collection, Devotions, will be published next April 23rd. If you would like a proof copy please contact @faberbooks.bsky.social ✨
October 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Great news! @lucycaldwell.bsky.social has been shortlisted twice for @edgehillprize.bsky.social. That's how good she is.
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First talk about my new novel coming up at the Elizabeth Gaskell House - all welcome!
elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/ruth-...
elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/ruth-...
Online Talk: Ruth – Fact and Fiction: Social Class Divisions in Elizabeth Gaskell’s World » elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk
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October 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
First talk about my new novel coming up at the Elizabeth Gaskell House - all welcome!
elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/ruth-...
elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/ruth-...
Angela Keaton, always inventive and mischievous.
I have heard some sad news. The poet Angela Keaton, a stalwart of the Edge Hill University Poetry and Poetics Research Group has died. She appears a lot on my blog; but here's one memorable post: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2009/10/ange...
Angela Keaton performing and constructing
Angela Keaton (top left) performing at the Walker Gallery as part of the Neon Highway reading, Angela reading at the Rose Theatre (Ormskirk)...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Angela Keaton, always inventive and mischievous.
Tomorrow online @commapress.bsky.social
Join us for this exclusive interview with the founder of Comma Press.
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Join conversation
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October 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Tomorrow online @commapress.bsky.social
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It's been tough going for small publishers for a while, but they continue to publish a lot of the most exciting new work, and are the main supporters of the short story as a form. Support indie publishing when you can!
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Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK
The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.
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October 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
It's been tough going for small publishers for a while, but they continue to publish a lot of the most exciting new work, and are the main supporters of the short story as a form. Support indie publishing when you can!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...
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