Jacquie Lawrence hosted a Press Evening in West London last night to promote her new show Different for Girls, a web drama adaptation of […]
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Polari First Book Prize 2016
Polari First Book Prize 2016 – Winner Announced Tonight! The announcement of the winner of the Polari First Book Prize 2016 competition will be made tonight in London’s Southbank Centre at the South Bank’s London Literary Festival by founder and chair of judges Paul Burston. The shortlist for the Polari First Book Prize was announced back […]
Television has been found guilty of murder in the first degree
Different for Girls is a novel by Jacqui Lawrence, now shortlisted for the esteemed Polari First Novel prize, the winner to be announced in October 2016, and it is also now going to be made into a twelve part television series for the web. But it’s never been charged. The victims have one thing in […]
Women of the World Festival 2016
Women of the World Festival 2016 Jacquie Lawrence was one of the five women writers playing to a full house in the Weston Roof Pavilion room as part of a Polari event at the WOW Festival (Women of the World) at the Southbank Centre in the Royal Festival Hall, hosted by Paul Burston. The women writers on […]
Writing for Everyone?
The commercial part of me says I write for everyone, but I do also write somewhere for a specific lesbian/bi audience because I do see myself going into a bookstore and perusing and reading the back of this book and thinking, that speaks to me. Somewhere I think we compartmentalise who we write for, and […]