This Week in Alice

Last weekend was a wild one of travel and podcasts. I went directly from Global Pillage at the London Podcast festival to The Bugle at Leicester Square Theatre, which was just so lovely. I am such a fan of Chris Addison’s jokewriting, and despite having done a few bugles ‘together’, we’d not yet shared a stage.

Thanks so much to Alison Spittle for taking over on the writers meeting; traveling between the gigs and home did the thing that traveling does, and meant I would have been on a train while running the meeting otherwise. Alison is such a great note-giver and I was glad that I could give her a bit of work, too.

I was approached this week to write an article for The Telegraph, based on a tweet thread I did: https://x.com/aliterative/status/1702935474875093076?s=46&t=GvlI5wHwVikA6UNRZIauZQ

I was hesitant to do it, but figured I had a specific enough thing to say, and an angled enough ‘take’ that it avoided the extremes of the culture war and was therefore worth throwing it to the sharks. It’s also handy to have an excuse to take a few days off social media in order to get this book finished!

Here’s the link to the article, though it’s behind a paywall: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/alice-fraser-why-comedians-dont-speak-up/

Because you may not want to use your money to subscribe to the telegraph but might still want to have a sense of what I wrote, here’s also a link to the longer, unedited, messy draft brain-dump version before I cleaned it up and bounced it back and forth with the copy editors and lawyers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12XIxICpFUE9ZAc_gkGkHa_4g1HNY3pUE1uEPKfIg-yw/edit

Patreon Fun Times

The Google calendar with all upcoming things you can come to is up at the linktree. https://linktr.ee/alicefraser but the next virtual events are below.

Writers Meeting and Workshop

Sunday, 24 September⋅2:30 – 4:30pm (UTC +1)

Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84252034678?pwd=MjhEQjRESlV2NXRMczVOWGhzMHM1UT09

Weekly Salon

Monday, 25 September⋅4:00 – 5:00pm (UTC +1)

Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89096323680?pwd=MXlyN3ExMDJYTlB3SC9OdHFEVGdadz09

Book Club

The no-homework book club returns with another piece of work that we can read and then explore together.

Friday, 29 September⋅2:30 – 3:30pm (UTC +1)

Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86811358343?pwd=RmNzSDJRcWw3YzQ3WEZjSlNSS3g5Zz09

Bring a Friend Offer [THIS MONTH]

Remember, if you would like to bring a friend along to a salon, book club or writers meeting, DM me here on Patreon and we'll organise it.