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TSFG 40 year anniversary anthology ‘Thursday Nights’ Launch!

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Come along and help us celebrate on Tuesday 5th December 2023 at Voce Books, Digbeth. Book your free admission here.

Hear member Rachel Sambrook talk about the book on Radio WM here. (Rachel is on the 2/12/23 programme at around the 37 minute mark).

Praise for Thursday Nights from former members:


‘A wonderful collection… told with warmth and verve from some of the best Birmingham writers. I loved it.’ Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon and Without Warning and Only Sometimes.


‘This collection is gold. Pure gold.’ Amanda Smyth, author of Black Rock, A Kind of Eden and Fortune.


‘Full of heart and voice and the concerns of the contemporary moment.’ Julia Bell, author of Dirty Work


‘A really excellent anthology.’ Annie Murray, author of Chocolate Girls, Birmingham Friends and more.

Where to buy ‘Thursday Nights’ – From December 5th available at book sellers instore and online:
Voce Books, 54-57 Allison Street, Digbeth, Birmingham.
Waterstones | Blackwell’s  | Amazon 

Kit de Waal’s story on Radio 4.

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Don’t miss Kit de Waal’s contribution to the Midlands Odyssey (see post below), soon to be aired on Radio 4, Sunday 30th November @7:45pm. A link to more details.

This programme will be available shortly after broadcast

Adrift at the Athena

Shorts: Writing WestEpisode 1 of 3

SHORTS: New writing. New writers.

The first of three Midlands Odysseys: short stories written in response to The Odyssey – transplanting episodes from Homer’s epic to contemporary Midlands settings.

Ulysses Tate has been away for a long time and is trying to get home. At the Athena launderette, he meets a woman who shows him great kindness.

By Kit de Waal.

Producer: Mair Bosworth.

Mick Scully’s short story success

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Congratulations to Mick Scully whose story ‘The Sea in Birmingham’, has been chosen for the 2014 edition of Salt Publishing‘s Best British Short Stories series. Mick’s piece is also the title story of TSFG’s 30 year celebration anthology.

Salt’s annual series (edited by Nicholas Royle) reprints the cream of short fiction by British writers. Alan Beard’s story, ‘Staff Development’, was included in 2011, and Joel Lane’s story, ‘Those Who Remember’, featured in the 2012 edition.