STROUD based writer Alice Jolly has been awarded the prestigious V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for 2014 by The Royal Society Of Literature. The prize is awarded to the best unpublished short story of the year. This year the judges were Dame Magaret Drabble, Tibor Fischer and Helen Oyeyemi. Alice received the prize at an award ceremony in London.
Alice has published two novels with Simon & Schuster and four of her plays have been produced by The Everyman in Cheltenham.
Alice has also written a memoir about her experiences of stillbirth and surrogacy which will be published by Unbound in autumn 2015.
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