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Sun 10 November 2024 • 2pm

Women’s Prize Discoveries: Demystifying Publishing

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Are you an aspiring writer? Or wondered how your favourite author started out? Join us for this exciting panel to help demystify the publishing industry, and offer top tips and practical guidance on how to get your foot in the door. 

Discoveries is the Women’s Prize Trust’s writer development programme and prize for unagented and unpublished women writers working on a novel for adults, run in partnership with Audible, Curtis Brown Literary Agency, and the Curtis Brown Creative writing school.

The panel will feature two alumni of the Discoveries programme, Olivia Ford, longlisted for Discoveries in 2021 for her debut novel, Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame, and Paige Cowan-Hall, winner of Discoveries 2023 and author of the Audible original, The Shouts Beneath. They will be joined by Harriet Hirshman, publishing manager at Dead Ink Books. The event will be chaired by writer Ayisha Malik, who judged Discoveries in 2022. 

For more information about Discoveries, which is currently open for submissions until January 2025, visit: www.womensprize.com/writers/discoveries.


Chester Literature Festival is partnering with the Women’s Prize Trust to present a special day of events at Storyhouse on Sunday, 10 November. Marking the 30th anniversary of the renowned Women’s Prize for Fiction — celebrated as one of the world’s most prestigious honors for female creativity — the day will feature a series of panels, talks, and workshops under the banner of ‘Women’s Prize Day’.

Venue
Garret Theatre, Garret Theatre
Duration
Approx 60 mins
Prices

Members: £10.80
Non-members: £12 (each ticket is subject to a £1.50 booking fee for non-members)

Book all 3 Women’s Prize events for £40 (subject to booking fees for non-members)

  • Olivia Ford
    Olivia Ford Read Bio
  • Paige Cowan-Hall
    Paige Cowan-Hall Read Bio
  • Harriet Hirshman
    Harriet Hirshman Read Bio
  • Ayisha Malik
    Ayisha Malik Read Bio

Interested in booking all three Women’s Prize events?

Add all three events to your basket for £40 (each ticket is subject to a £1.50 booking fee for non-members).
Creative Writing Workshop not included in ticket offer.

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