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Tag: comedy

  • Worldcon: what did Heide and Iain do in Dublin?

    What did Heide and Iain do at Worldcon, held this year in Dublin? Here’s our day by day impressions, with some photos: Wednesday:  Arrival! Heide For some reason there are two planes (different airlines) that go from Birmingham to Dublin within minutes of each other. Iain was on the other one. We were going to…

  • Has humorous fiction lost its fizz?

    Where are all the funny books? It’s apparently a question being asked by the judges of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (the only prize in the UK for comedy novels) as they have decided not to award the prize for 2018 because none of the entries was funny enough. Can it really be true that there…

  • How a writing workshop led to comedy editing gold

    Halloween Writing Workshop I went to a writing workshop on Halloween. It was my birthday so I decided it would be a fun way to pass the day. It was a flash fiction workshop at the University of Leicester, held in the David Wilson Library. Our hosts were Simon Dixon, the Special Collections librarian and…

  • Pigeon Park Press to host Sitcom Writing Workshop

      Pigeon Park Press will be hosting an exciting one-off workshop. “Comedy and Other ‘C’ Words – How to Write a Sitcom” Keith R Lindsay will be running the workshop, bringing years of accumulated wisdom. He has written for on Birds of a Feather, Only Fools and Horses and The Green, Green Grass. He has…