Ailsa Cox

Reading quite a lot at the moment, and just finished this brilliant short book of 3 stories by @ailsacox from @Confingo Sensitive, surprising, beautiful stories about solitude and obsession. @EverybodyReview @cwaleicester @WordFactoryUK

@DHAbooks Well done Ed! I hope a collection's in the offing.

Congratulations to Edward Hogan, whose story story 'Becky and the Rockettes' has been longlisted for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize! 👏

"shuddering with disquiet" Desmond Bullen reads Precipitation by Ailsa Cox. northernsoul.me.uk/precipitation-… #reading #books @Confingo

@EHUShortStory winner crossing the border between novel and short fiction.

COMMA BLOG✍️ Dark Underbellies: w/ Ross Raisin Award Wins, what-the-bloody-hell-is-this? moments, and an ill-fated 2-piece kop band... The 2024 BBC NSSA winner chats about the win, his story in The Book of Bradford & memories of the city. 🔗commapress.co.uk/blog/dark-unde…

The shortlisted books are now with our judging panel… while we wait for the ceremony on 20th February, when the winner will be announced, our interns are enjoying a spot of reading around our beautiful Edge Hill University campus. #edgehilluniversity #shortstoryprize #shortlist

Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester: the brilliant @ailsacox and her new collection of three stories, "Precipitation," with illustrations by Patricia Farrell …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2025/01/ailsa-… @EverybodyReview @crystalclearjt @Confingo @edgehill

Officially launching the centenary search for 100 Stoke-born authored books 1925-2025. Where are you? Who are you? More info: lisablower.co.uk / 100potteriesbooks@gmail.com @SoTCityCouncil @StokeCreates @stokeontrent100 @English_Keele @NewVicTheatre

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! Precipitation is a collection of three stories by @ailsacox with images by Patricia Farrell. The fifth in our series of collaborations between authors and artists, it's available for the special price of £6 (plus p&p) till 16.1.25. confingopublishing.uk/product-page/p…

I don't know if you'd call this an apologia from the brilliant @Kerry2001, but it certainly provides an incisive background to her voice and identity as a writer deeply embedded in place and genre. Please read - would that we could all claim such roots...

Happy new year from the ENSFR! 2025 is an important year for us as it marks the 10-year anniversary of our first ever conference. You can read more about it here: ensfr.univ-angers.fr/2014/10/

We are extremely sad to hear of the death of our revered long-time author David Lodge. Our thoughts are with his children and family. His influential place in the history of British letters will endure through the wonderful body of work he leaves behind. Read the full statement: bit.ly/40krZ2E Photography © Joel Kaplan

@PhilipPullman @ae_stallings Maybe, but she's talking about toddlers, in the moment, when lengthy explanations translate into a baffling kind of noise.

@ae_stallings Yes, yes, yes. As many words as possible! Bringing up a child is not the same as drilling a squad of soldiers. Anyway, it's 'fewer words'.

(Errr... very bad take as regards language acquisition. Use all the words!)

Submissions are open for the BBC Short Story Awards 2025! The BBC National Short Story Award and the BBC Young Writers’ Award are ready to receive your entries. Find out more via the links below bbc.in/4ixvcmA bbc.in/3Br12kl

APPLY NOW! Our newly announced Brutalist Ghost Stories project includes an Arts Council England-funded Emerging Writer Programme, with mentoring for three early stage writers to contribute to an anthology of short uncanny fiction. Deadline: 31 January 2025 confingopublishing.uk/thenewnorth

To celebrate #nationalshortstoryday here are some recommendations for classic and contemporary masterpieces from writers and lovers of the form: commapress.co.uk/blog/national-…

Thrilled to see my experimental short story 'The Worm' published in @The_JSSE's latest issue on Temporality & Landscape. Read for free here, along with some really stimulating papers on a fascinating theme: journals.openedition.org/jsse/index.html

🎄🎅🎁📚Miss our Christmas post dates? Fear not, you can still give the gift of an annual subscription to Cōnfingō magazine, out in spring and autumn, and only £20 for the year… simply click here to subscribe and that's another present sorted… confingopublishing.uk/shop