Tuesday 17 March 7pm
Tessa Hadley at The Edge Hill Prize Twenty Year Celebration
We are thrilled to welcome novelist and short story writer Tessa Hadley to headline this celebration of the Edge Hill Prize.
‘Hadley’s extraordinary skill [is] making both surface life and deep interiors come fully alive’ – Colm Tóibín (Edge Hill Prize inaugural winner 2007)
Tessa Hadley is the latest winner of the internationally renown prize with her collection After the Funeral. She previously won the prize in 2018, with Bad Dreams. Tessa will read and share insights about her writing, and will be joined for the event by members of the Fiction Writer’s Network, current convener of the Edge Hill Prize, Sarah Schofield and Prize Founder Ailsa Cox, all sharing their love of the short story.
About Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley has published eight novels – including The Past, Late in the Day, and Free Love – and four collections of short stories. Her novella, The Party, was published in 2024. She has short stories regularly in the New Yorker, and reviews for the Guardian and the London Review of Books; she was awarded a Windham Campbell prize for Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize in 2016, and has won the Edge Hill Prize twice: in 2018, for Bad Dreams, and in 2024, for After The Funeral.
About The Edge Hill Prize
Twenty years ago, Professor Ailsa Cox recognised the need for a prize that recognised excellence in published single-author short story collections by writers from UK and Ireland. From modest beginnings, The Edge Hill Prize has grown over the last twenty years to be known and respected internationally as an authority on the contemporary short story landscape.
Tickets: Free, booking essential