S6 Ep60: Posy Simmonds, cartoonist and graphic novelist

This week I'm in the London home of artist and writer Posy Simmonds. From the 1970s onwards, Posy had a regular comic strip in The Guardian, where she wrote Mrs Weber's Diary and later serialised the graphic novel Tamara Drewe. She went on to publish two more graphic novels, Gemma Bovery and Cassandra Darke. Earlier this year, she had a major exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and became the first British artist to win the Grand Prix at France’s Angoulême International Comics Festival. Here are some of Posy's books: ...and here are some more: I'm teaching an online writing masterclass with Arvon on Tuesday 19 November: I'm doing an event at Oxford's Caper Bookshop on Thursday 21 November: I'm interviewing David Nicholls on the writing process in Cambridge on Saturday 23 November: Buy a signed copy of In Writing: Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation here: This season of In Writing is sponsored by Curtis Brown Creative – the renowned writing school run by the literary and talent agency. Use code INWRITING20 for £20 off your first online writing course – eligible courses can be found here . Visit to find out more.

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S6 Ep60: Posy Simmonds, cartoonist and graphic novelist is an episode from In Writing with Hattie Crisell.

This episode is 52:52 long.

This episode was published on Nov 15, 2024.

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