The Edge Hill Prize Short Story Award
The official account of the Edge Hill Prize. £10,000 for the best published, single-authored short story collection from the UK & Ireland. Facilitated by FiN, Edge Hill University's narrative research group. Convener @saraheschofield.bsky.social
@nadiakbarb.bsky.social
Writer and journalist Author ‘Truth or Dare’ Renard Press, L/L 2021 Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award; Finalist Eyelands Book Award 2024 Also a dreamer and crazy cat lady! https://nadiakabirbarb.com/
@benpester.bsky.social
Story collection Am I in the Right Place. Other work in Granta, London Magazine, Hotel etc
@kitdewaal.bsky.social
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Henry Allen. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
@laurenelkin.bsky.social
Author of Flâneuse, No 91/92, Art Monsters, Scaffolding Translator of Simone de Beauvoir, Michelle Perrot, Colombe Schneck, Constance Debré, Lola Lafon, et al London <> Paris she/her
@lmcknighthardy.bsky.social
Author of NIGHT BABIES (2026) @johnmurrays.bsky.social & DEAD RELATIVES (2021) and WATER SHALL REFUSE THEM (2019) @deadinkbooks.bsky.social She/her lmcknighthardy.com Agent: @donaldwin.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social
@ellipsiszine.bsky.social
Literary magazine and independent press, publishing beautifully written flash fiction, nonfiction and creative nonfiction. https://www.ellipsiszine.com
@timcraig.bsky.social
Writer of Short Fiction | Best Microfiction ‘19,’22,'23 ‘25 | 1st, Bridport Prize Flash | 4 x placed Bath flash award | ‘Now You See Him' (Ad Hoc) LL Edge Hill Short Story Prize ‘23
@jonathanpinnock.com
Writes software and fiction. Tries to keep the two apart. Books published by Farrago and others. Supremo and Grand Panjandrum at the Worldwide Subbub Organisation. He/him. https://linktr.ee/jonpinnock
@samjordison.bsky.social
Mad as hell. Not going to take it any more. Journalist. Galley Beggar. 3AM Magazine Anti-Royal Correspondent. Across The Pond podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/ Galley Beggar: www.galleybeggar.co.uk
@theactualemma.bsky.social
Writer. Winner 2019 Benedict Kiely competition | longlisted 2021 Galley Beggars Press | shortlisted 2023 Maírtín Crawford Award | work featured in The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, and more | Rep'd by Sophie Scard at United Agents: https://t.ly/ef_3A
@jonmcgregor.bsky.social
I write novels and stories . (Recentlyish: Lean Fall Stand.) There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/ Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
@benjaminjudge.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. I have decided to draw every species of bird even though I'm not very good at drawing birds. Why not, eh? Birds are cool. benjaminjudge.com
@fatroland.bsky.social
🎵 Music writer for Electronic Sound, veteran blogger, short story author 🎤 Comedian (Title Fight, Glang Show, A Lovely Time) 🍊 Operations droog for Anthony Burgess Foundation 💢 Was a sentient tower (grrrrrr) Read my blog: https://fatroland.blogspot.com.
@gregorynorminton.bsky.social
Yet another writer. Environmentalist. Lives in Sheffield. http://gregorynorminton.com/
@davidhartley.bsky.social
Writer of weird tales | FAUNA, with Fly on the Wall | INCORCISMS, with Arachne Press | Writer-in-residence for Prima Vista in Tartu, Estonia | Manchester, UK
@wordfactoryuk.bsky.social
'National organisation supporting excellence in short fiction' - The Guardian.News & events https://thewordfactory.tv/ Location: Cornwall + London
@troutiemcfish.bsky.social
Writer I Editor Winner of 3 Saboteurs/Kyoto City Mayoral Prize/BGTW New Travel Writer of the Year/Colm Toibin & H E Bates Short Story Awards Placed: Costa/Harper's Bazaar/Fish/Bath/S/list Bridport New novella - The Blue of You - Oct '25 - Northodox Press
@andrewhedgecock.bsky.social
Critic / feature writer / essayist based in a recovering and undervalued landscape
@swanriverpress.bsky.social
Independent press dedicated exclusively to literature of the gothic, fantastic, strange, and supernatural. Dublin, Ireland. Posts by Brian J. Showers. www.swanriverpress.ie
@questingvole.bsky.social
[indistinct chatter] @spectator lit ed. Author of The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
@chrisemery.me
WELCOME! AKA Chris Hamilton-Emery, I’m a poet and publisher at @saltpublishing.com. I was born in Manchester, UK, and have published four collections of poetry – a new book, ‘Wonder’, is forthcoming from Salt 🥳. Website: www.chrisemery.me
@carcanet.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social. 🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
@anitachaudhuri.bsky.social
Writes on all things psychology, communities and well-being for The Guardian’s G2 section. Photographer documenting migraine and other invisible conditions. 🏡 London ❤️ Glasgow www.theguardian.com/profile/anita-chaudhuri
@thetls.bsky.social
The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
@jenhemery.bsky.social
Publisher at Salt, editor, CBT-Hypnotherapist at Re:New Hypnosis. Likes words and brains.
@blackshuckbooks.bsky.social
@liverpolsen.bsky.social
Writer of s(h)orts | Continuing Education Creative Writing Tutor at Uni of Liverpool | Contributing Editor at Vestal Review | Stories in Cōnfingō #16, Strix #8 | https://polsen.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/liverpolsen
@rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
Writer, March Violet, secret medievalist, FRSL✨ Not cynical; just been taking notes. Novels:The Fates(Quercus) Palace of Curiosities, Vixen, Night Brother(Borough) Poems:Nine Arches March Violets: @marchvioletsband.bsky.social http://www.rosiegarland.com
@deadinkbooks.bsky.social
Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
@alanbeard.bsky.social
Short Story/Flash writer. Two collections: Taking Doreen out of the Sky (Picador, 1999); You Don’t Have to Say (Tindal Street Press, 2010). Third collection ‘Afternoon Drinking’ out 2025. Tom Gallon Award. Best British Short Stories; Best Microfiction etc
@annenolan.bsky.social
Small press publishing and photography. Publisher at Two Rivers Press and Redden Press. Favourite thinker: Kurt Vonnegut.
@bongosherbert.bsky.social
Writer, Blogger, PhD Researcher & Environmentalist. Published in The Guardian, Mechanics Institute Review online & narrator of films for Channel 4 #writer
@shelleyday.bsky.social
Author. Geordie lass. Lives Paris/Edinburgh. Currently writing memoir/short stories. Also makes art books as agnès grey and gives them away.
@prototypepubs.bsky.social
London-based independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects, committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature. https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/
@kimmoorepoet.bsky.social
Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI
@saltpublishing.com
WELCOME to Salt, one of the UK’s great independent publishers, established in 1999. Over twenty-six years, we have grown into a daring literary powerhouse, winning scores of awards around the world. Directors: @chrisemery.me & @jenhemery.bsky.social
@richardvhirst.bsky.social
Another writer you've never heard of / books with Confingo and Dead Ink / runs Levenshulme Old Library https://richardvhirst.co.uk/
@nightjarpress.bsky.social
Single short story chapbooks since 2009. Uncanny, dark, experimental. Manchester/London. Editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social. Design @johnoakey.bsky.social.
@ggaffa.bsky.social
Writer, Arts Council manager, musician. Concrete Fields (Salt 2023) Out Of The Dark (Confingo 2021) graphic novel Rivers (Top Shelf 2021) www.davidgaffney.org
@vickygrut.bsky.social
Writer. Short story collection Live Show, Drink Included shortlisted for 2019 Edge Hill Awards. Pushcart nominated in 2023. Work in The Masters Review XIII in 2025. Website: vickygrut.com