Local author Joan Ellis will be reading from all 4 of her books, humour and thrillers, and telling celebrity anecdotes with 'Wightwords' at Quay Arts. Programme starts 7.30pm - free event.

Joan Ellis
Award-winning advertising copywriter, comedy writer, performer, lecturer - Joan Ellis has been them all. With a full-time job in a top London advertising agency and a new baby, she did what any right-minded woman would've done and set up a comedy club. She even appeared on the same bill as Jo Brand. Once. A career highlight was casting a black and white moggie as Humphrey Bogart for her award-winning cat food commercial. Other great performers who brought her words to life include Penelope Keith and Harry Enfield. As a lecturer, Joan taught comedian Noel Fielding all he knows about advertising before encouraging him to showcase his creative talents on a wider stage.

Working for The Press Association, she tutored Wordsworth's great-grandson in the art of copywriting: Buy a host of golden daffodils. Get a yellow one, free! She penned a regular column for a parenting glossy, about her young daughter. Sophie is now eighteen and wise enough never to have read a word her mother has written.Joan taught PR and Advertising at Bournemouth University and now writes full-time. Find out more about Joan, visit her website.