The next short fiction reading group meeting will take place (via Zoom) on Monday 1st June at 5pm (UK time). Below, you can find information on how to join the online meeting room. I have attached an iCalendar file that you can add to your calendar. During the meeting, we will be discussing Julie-Ann’s reading suggestion: the...
Elizabeth Gaskell’s House marked the 10th anniversary of its restoration and opening to the public with a bold new exhibition called I’ve Never Read Elizabeth Gaskell, as part of a project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Three young writers – Georgia Affonso, Princess Arinola Adegbite and Guruleen Kahlo – were awarded inaugural writers’...
Join author Ben Pester and Keith Ridgway with Barry Pierce to discuss their new books Doors 630pm, event start 7pm prompt BEN PESTER is the author of the short story collection Am I in the Right Place? (2021) and the novel The Expansion Project (2025), which was shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards and the Goldsmiths Prize. "Pester is a...
Shortly after the pandemic lockdown Sara Baume came across a painting in a pop-up exhibition in a renovated West Cork shed. Fascinated by it, she became determined to make the painter’s acquaintance – although a native of North Dakota the artist Mollie Douthit was now living and working in rural Ireland. Bonded by a common...
BBC National Short Story Award-winning Lucy Caldwell (author of Openings and These Days) and Nell Stevens (author of The Original and Somerset Maugham Award-winning Mrs Gaskell & Me) are both masters at catapulting you into characters’ lives, conjuring entirely new worlds in a matter of pages. In this conversation they discuss their new story collections, Devotions and The Good Time, talking stories of love, grief, haunted...