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Join us at the Saul Hay Gallery on 2nd April to celebrate the publication of Precipitation by Ailsa Cox, with images by Patricia Farrell. 7.30 - 9.00 p.m. Tickets (free) available on our website: www.confingopublishing.uk/event-list

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Thank you to everyone who applied for a place on our Northern Emerging Writer Programme. The successful applicants will be notified in early March.

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Thank you to Alan McCormick and Everybody's Reviewing for this thoughtful and insightful review of Precipitation: everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/02/revi...

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Confingo will be joining other Northern publishers at the Northern Publishers' Fair on Saturday 26th April. Venue: Manchester Central Library. Time - 11 a.m. - 3.30 p.m. Free entry to the fair all day. Arrive at any time. Hope to see you there...

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Sightings by David Bevan, with photographs by Maya Sharp, is the sixth in our series of collaborations between authors and artists. Published on 22nd May, it can be pre-ordered for the special price of £6 + p&p from our online shop. www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page...

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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT. Sightings by David Bevan, with photographs by Maya Sharp, will be published on 22 May. It can be pre-ordered for the special price of £6 + p&p from our online shop. www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page...

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'... the tales are so brooding, lashed by the British weather' - Bookmunch (Jackie Law) reviews Precipitation by Ailsa Cox, with images by Patricia Farrell. bookmunch.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/l...

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Today is the final day to submit work to our emerging writers programme. 3 stories will be commissioned from emerging writers, one from each of the following areas:​ Blackpool; Middlesbrough; Rochdale​. The stories will appear in an anthology to be published in 2026. More details on our website.

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Confingo is recruiting three emerging writers - one each from Rochdale, Blackpool, Middlesbrough - for a new book, Brutalist Ghost Stories, an anthology of short, uncanny fiction. We have also commissioned 13 stories from professional authors. Last date for submissions: 31 Jan. More on our website.

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Thank you Desmond Bullen and Northern Soul for this thoughtful and perceptive review of Precipitation by Ailsa Cox (with images by Patricia Farrell). www.northernsoul.me.uk/precipitatio...

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Confingo is recruiting three emerging writers - one each from Rochdale, Blackpool, Middlesbrough - for a new book, Brutalist Ghost Stories, an anthology of short, uncanny fiction. We have also commissioned 13 stories from professional authors. Last date for submissions: 31 Jan. More on our website.

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New words & music collaborations celebrating Record Store Day (in April). Project conceived & led by @ggaffa.bsky.social @adrianslatcher.bsky.social sleeve-notes.bandcamp.com/album/sleeve...

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Confingo is recruiting three emerging writers - one each from Rochdale, Blackpool, Middlesbrough - for a new book, Brutalist Ghost Stories, an anthology of short, uncanny fiction. We have also commissioned 13 stories from professional authors. Last date for submissions: 31 Jan. More on our website.

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My poetry chapbook, At Night and Other Poems (Bottlecap Press, 2024), is on sale for only $8. It contains 24 poems, including ones that have appeared in The Galway Review, Confingo Magazine, Spectrum and Inkfish Magazine: bottlecap.press/products/atn...

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Following publication of her new mini collection of stories, Ailsa Cox is featured on the Creative Writing at Leicester blog, edited by Jonathan Taylor. The feature includes the wonderfully descriptive opening to Heavy Showers and Thunder. creativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2025/01/ails...

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www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12806 Domestic Gothic Stories where the sinister behind the everyday is centre stage Paul Anthony Knowles Reviews Ailsa Cox's Precipitations @ailsacox.bsky.social

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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! Precipitation is a collection of 3 stories by @ailsacox.bsky.social with images by Patricia Farrell. The 5th in our series of collaborations between authors & artists, it's available for the special price of £6 (plus p&p) till 16.1.25. www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page...

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Out this week, latest in @confingopublishing.bsky.social series of mini short story collections in which artists respond to writers. Patricia Farrell’s images of figures in abstract landscapes combine well with short story professor @ailsacox.bsky.social’s tales of life & death in Todmorden.

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I agreed to share this before I saw that ‘ever-brilliant’, but an agreement is an agreement.

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Congratulations to Nathan Bailey for winning the inaugural Withington Book Festival story competition, judged by Greenhouse Books and Confingo magazine. Congratulations, too, to runners-up Stephen Smythe, Madeleine Foster and Lee Ashworth. The winning story will be published in Confingo next year.

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