Victoria Coren is currently writing a weekly topical column in The Observer and a weekly poker column in The Guardian. She has previously written a monthly dating column in Esquire magazine, a poker column in Observer Sport Monthly, weekly columns for The Independent and Independent On Sunday and freelance articles for the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, The Times, The Sun, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Grazia and various other magazines.

She started early, submitting a short story to Just 17 magazine (under an assumed name) when she was 14, which was accepted and published, earning her a princely £90. She then answered a nationwide appeal from the Daily Telegraph for a teenage columnist, got the job and wrote the column weekly until she went to university.

A collection of Victoria’s teenage newspaper articles was published in 1990. In 1999/2000, she adapted the newspaper columns of John Diamond into a play, A Lump In My Throat, which was performed at the Grace Theatre and the New End Theatre in London and The Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, before Victoria re-adapted it into a TV play for BBC2 starring Neil Pearson.

In 2002, Victoria co-wrote a book about making an x-rated movie, then in 2009 her memoir of a life playing cards was published by Canongate. With her brother Giles, she has edited an anthology of their father’s writing, published October 2008. Details of these books can be found here on the books page.