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Helen Fielding launches Bridget Jones prize for northern comedy writing

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Helen Fielding launches Bridget Jones prize for northern comedy writing

The Yorkshire-born author says that the 1,000 word competition is for people ‘just living their lives being quietly hilarious’ Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding has launched a comedy writing prize in the name of her most famous creation, aimed at unearthing funny new voices from the north of England.

The Bridget Jones prize for northern comedy writing will go to the funniest self-contained, first-person prose of 1,000 words.

The format echoes the anonymous diary columns in the Independent that first brought Bridget to readers in the mid-1990s.

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