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Talks // Coming up // Nina Stibbe, Helen Lederer & Cathy Rentzenbrink: Comedy Women in Print
17 October
Sunday
4:00pm

Nina Stibbe, Helen Lederer & Cathy Rentzenbrink: Comedy Women in Print

Comedy Women in Print is the brainchild of comedian, author, actress Helen Lederer. It is a new literary prize that was established with the aim of recognising, celebrating and encouraging witty women authors.

Helen will be joined in a wide-ranging discussion about comedy writing by Nina Stibbe, author of bestselling books like Love, Nina and Reasons to be Cheerful, which was the winner of last year's CWIP Published book prize, and bestselling writer, Cathy Rentzenbrink, whose debut novel Everyone is Still Alive was published this summer.

​Winners of the  CWIP Unpublished award are published by Harper Collins and receive an advance and huge attention. The Unpublished runner up wins a place on an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire and an MA in Comedy at Falmouth University.

TICKETS

Adults: £7, Students: £5 

A £1 Poly Fund payment will be added to each ticket sold.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD IN THE PRINCESS PAVILION  

 

 

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