How To Write Comedy
My book "How To Write Comedy", published by Little, Brown, was cited by The Stage Newspaper as a training book of the year. It is a practical step-by-step guide to writing sketches, jokes and sitcoms, based on my twenty-year experience of writing comedy and eleven years of teaching it.
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"It’s straightforwardly practical, there are plenty of suggestions for activities to try and Kirwood is good on advice for marketing your work and managing your life as a writer – especially when you have to deal with rejection."
Susan Elkin, The Stage
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Fiction
Recent Short Story Successes
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"The Nine Lives of Billy Nightjar" won first prize in the Anansi Archive Summer Competition.
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"The Coital Rituals of Planet S3" was Highly Commended in the 2024 To Hull and Back humorous story anthology.
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"Mothers Day" has been published in Scribble Magazine.
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"Random" was shortlisted for the To Hull and Back comedy SF prize and is published in their 2023 anthology
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"Gasping" is published in SF Magazine KZine.
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I read my story "Monster" at the Story Fridays event in Bath.
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My story "The Ride" is published in New Myths.
More Non-Fiction
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My humorous column "The Blog of Samuel Pepys" appeared for two years in The Greenwich Visitor.
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I have written comedy sketches, for Russ Abbott amongst others, which have been broadcast on TV and radio in the UK and Europe.
Articles
My article on writing comedy appeared in Writing Magazine.
My mini-course on how to write a joke appeared in The Independent On Saturday.
I have written numerous articles on comedy and on humorous topics for The Oldie, Shakespeare Scene, Reach Magazine, Coach Monthly and Best of British, amongst other magazines.
