Joel died almost two years ago, and it’s strange – but wonderful – to say there’s new work from him. We all miss him so much in the group.

More information here.

Following his recent appearance in ‘Best British Short Stories 2015’, Charles has another story in the Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 2. Well done, again, Charlie.

 Associate TSFG member Julia is a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck    College, London where she teaches on the Creative Writing MA and is Project Director of the Writers Hub website. Her third novel has just been published by Macmillan. Here’s the cover:

The story concerns ‘ a girl growing up in a sinister cult on a remote island [who] falls in love with a girl who is there to be saved’ – based on a true story.

Julia’s previous novels are Massive, recently re-published by Macmillan, and Dirty Work. She also edited the highly recommended Creative Writers’ Coursebook.

TSFG member Charlie has a story ‘Fresh Water’ in the prestigious anthology, alongside such luminaries as Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson.

The story originally appeared in Unthology 5, along with another TSFG member’s story, Garrie Fletcher’s ‘Kowalski’.

Out of the five ‘Best British Short Stories’ anthologies so far, TSFG members have appeared in four of them.

Annie Murray’s ‘War Babies’ was launched with a VE Day party at Kings Heath Library. Photographs below show Annie with ration book; the happy crowd at the library; Sophie Greenwood (from ED Public Relations) and Nikki Bi (from the Library of Birmingham).

Annie Murray’s sixteenth (? – could be more!) novel ‘War Babies is launched today (May 5th 2015). Full details here.

Polly Wright has developed her story ‘Seagulls in Sparkhill’ (originally published in TSFG’s anthology ‘The Sea in Birmingham’) into a play which will be performed at the Birmingham Rep on 12th March as part of the student drama festival.See this webpage for more details.

Photo from LiveBrum site.

http://www.livebrum.co.uk/birmingham-rep/2015/03/12/seagulls-in-sparkhill