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Set up by our very own columnist Helen Lederer, the Comedy Women in Print Awards champion the voices of women who tackle serious and heartfelt subjects with a generous dose of humour. Here, we talk to three of this year’s shortlisted authors...

FOR THEIR NEW SHOW WAYWARD , MAE MARtin ...

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

THE CREATOR OF THE GIRLFRIENDS PODCAST ON HELPING OTHERS AND CHANGING VIEWS

Described as quirky all her life, it’s taken a Bafta, an Emmy nomination and her own new BBC series for Aimee Lou Wood to embrace her wonderful weirdness

Look out for a future edition of heat edited by the bestselling author – if Katie Holloway manages to persuade him