EP399: Elissa Soave — “My Story is Worth Telling”

Elissa Soave is the winner of the inaugural Primadonna Prize, an accolade awarded to unpublished and unrepresented writers. Ginger and Me is her debut novel, a part-coming of age and part-mystery novel featuring vivid characters. Elissa reveals how her writing career started with just 500 words and the realisation that her story was worth telling.

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WE DISCUSS…

  • What Elissa learned writing for theatre
  • What surprised her most about the publishing process
  • And the role that Tunnocks wafter biscuits played in the story…

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