Books & Spoken Word
Novel Nights – Alice Jolly
Alice Jolly’s latest novel, Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile, is written in the voice of a very poor woman in Victorian England. In an era where working-class women’s stories remained a mystery, Alice will discuss how writers can recover the past.
Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. Her memoir, Dead Babies and Seaside Towns, published in 2015, won the Pen / Ackerley Prize. One of her short stories won the 2014 V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, awarded by The Royal Society of Literature.
She has also published two novels and four of her plays have been produced by the professional company of the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham. She teaches creative writing on the Mst at Oxford University and her fourth novel, Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile, was published this year.
There are three reading slots at this event. If you are writing historical fiction or something with a strong voice please visit the Novel Nights submission guidelines, www.novelnights.co.uk/submissions/
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