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Comedy Women in Print prize announce 2022/23 Short Story shortlist

22 February 2023

Comedy Women in Print prize (CWIP) have announced the 2022/23 Short Story shortlist!

The 12 selected short stories will be published in September 2023 by Farrago, in a first-of-its-kind anthology dedicated to comedy writing by female authors.

  • Go Your Own Way by Kimberley Adams
  • Nothing Compared to You by Annemarie Cancienne
  • Shopping for England by Kim Clayden
  • Unbound by Jean Ende
  • Care Home Capers by Wendy Hood
  • Sorry, Delivery by Paula Lennon
  • Poets Rise Again by Josie Long
  • Hapless by Rita Malik
  • You Can’t Get There From Here by Jacqueline Saville
  • Glue by Clare Shaw
  • Ways with Mince by Kathyrn Simmonds
  • Jenny Bean, Calamity Queen by Julia Wood

Congratulations to the shortlistees!

CWIP Short Story shortlistees