Dinner - Guest Speaker - Claire Gradidge

Thu, Mar 14th 2019 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Claire will be speaking about her involvement with our Rotary 'Young Writers Competition'.


University lecturer Claire Gradidge has won the Richard and Judy ‘Search for a Bestseller’ competition for her World War Two crime novel The Unexpected Return of Josephine Fox.

The competition for first-time unpublished writers was launched in April 2018 by television stars Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan in association with WH Smith and Bonnier Zaffre.

Claire, has a PHD in creative writing and has taught at the University of Winchester as an associate lecturer for six years, will now receive a publishing contract with Bonnier Zaffre and repesentation from agency YM&U.

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