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Following the London ceremony in July this year, the Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story returned to the north-west last week with a reading at The Bluecoat in Liverpool to celebrate the winning authors’ work.

Hundreds of fans were entertained by Edge Hill’s star alumnus Stuart Maconie who recently returned to his university to talk about his new book and lots more.

A critically-acclaimed poet at Edge Hill University is to read from his new collections at a popular literature festival in Liverpool.

Winners of the 2011 Edge Hill Short Story Prize will come together for a special event as part of Liverpool’s Chapter & Verse Literature Festival.

Issues around gender and sexuality are at the forefront of an innovative Edge Hill University research group.

The way people use different language across the world was the topic of an international conference at Edge Hill University.

Researchers from all over the world will come to Edge Hill University to examine how people use language and how it changes in society.

Didn’t get the grades you were expecting for your university course? Or want to change subjects? Then Edge Hill University’s Clearing Team could help.

The legacy of the renowned Italian Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi will be the subject of an international conference at Edge Hill University next year.

A creative writing student who was encouraged to have her work published by her late husband who was killed in Afghanistan has had her dream come true.

Five very different writers have been shortlisted for the Edge Hill University Short Story Prize 2011.

Literature students or general readers can come along to a special Edge Hill University event to celebrate the work of Byron.

Students saw another side to their creative writing lecturers last night as they celebrated a number of their books being published during a special event.

Two writers from Edge Hill University are celebrating a number of their books being published with a special launch event.

Master of the macabre Jeremy Dyson shared his mysterious and yet strangely familiar thinking behind some of his written work during a visit to Edge Hill University.

A talented creative writing student from Edge Hill University has been chosen to have her work featured in the Best British Short Stories 2011.

Men’s roles within the feminist movement will be debated by an expert from Edge Hill University at an international conference.

Exposure of street sexual harassment and the campaign against the moral policing of young women in urban India comes under the spotlight at Edge Hill University.

A linguistics expert from Edge Hill University is expanding an important research database on words borrowed from other languages.

Scriptwriter and short story author Jeremy Dyson will make a rare public appearance to read his work at Edge Hill University.

A US alumnus has become an overnight success in the poetry world after taking inspiration from an Edge Hill University lecturer.

A poet-critic from Edge Hill University has received unusual news that his two books have been published at the same time.

An award-winning playwright from Edge Hill University has scooped another accolade from ‘down under’ for one of his productions.

Published authors are being urged to enter the prestigious 2011 Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story.

Prize-winning writer for people of all ages and second Children’s Laureate, Anne Fine, recently visited Edge Hill University for a special reading event.

An award-winning playwright who has just returned to the UK from Australia to lecture at Edge Hill University will have one of his productions shown in New York.

Edge Hill University has teamed up with partners to launch the Once Upon a Time creative writing competition.

Two of the most distinguished poets in US and UK literature shared a stage at Edge Hill University for the first time in one of the highlights of the UK’s literary calendar.

A self-exile from Switzerland tells readers of his escape to a new life through a series of poems that have just been published.

Celebrate National Poetry Day nthis month by booking your free place to see two of the most distinguished poets in US and UK literature read their work at Edge Hill University.

Two of the most distinguished poets in US and UK literature will take part in a unique poetry reading at Edge Hill University.

Rising talent Carys Bray has been named this year’s MA Creative Writing winner in the Edge Hill University Short Story Prize 2010.

Pupils from three northwest schools have been given an exciting opportunity to judge one of the categories in this year’s prestigious Edge Hill University Short Story Prize.

An English Literature expert from Edge Hill University has been invited to speak at a star-studded event in London this month.

The world famous civil rights leader, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, sent a personal message of congratulation to the University's scholarship students.

After years of being overshadowed by the male-dominated literary canon, women’s literature finally has a mainstream role model in Carol Ann Duffy, the recently appointed, first female Poet Laureate. But does this mean the woman who was once considered “too lesbian for Laureate” has sold out?

The short story, long regarded as the poor relation of the novel, is enjoying something of a renaissance, with Edge Hill leading the way.

The work of Sarah Waters, author of the widely-acclaimed new novel The Little Stranger, and the verse of Liverpool-based poet Cath Nichols comes under the spotlight.

Edge Hill University will host the international Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (FWSA) Conference at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, later this month.

New professors Mark McGovern and Anthony Grant share their passion for politics and love of language.

An internationally recognised linguistics academic has joined Edge Hill University.

Edge Hill University has launched two unique courses in response to China's growing emergence as a global power.

Internationally-renowned writer Claire Keegan has been announced as the winner of the Short Story Prize 2008.

The five writers short listed for this year’s Edge Hill University Short Story Competition are to be announced at The Bluecoat at 2.30pm on Saturday 10 May.

Edge Hill University lecturer Peter Wright has been shortlisted for a prestigious Locus Award.