In Conversation: Lorraine Candy

Lorraine Candy is an award-winning journalist and editor. A former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, ELLE, and most recently Sunday Times Style, she began her career on The Cornish Times before going on to become Woman’s Editor at The Sun and then Features Editor at The Times. Her first book: Mum What’s Wrong With You: 101 Things Only the Mothers of Teenage Girls Know (published in 2021), is a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller.

She will be her talking about her career across newspapers and magazines, fashion and news. and also how she has reinvented her career in media in midlife, using her journalistic skills and life experience to write two books, create a podcast and become a social commentator.

Lorraine’s second book What’s Wrong With Me – 101 things midlife women need to know is a memoir and tackles career reinvention among other stuff . Her first book, Mum What’s Wrong With You was a Sunday Times best-seller about raising teenage girls.

As a mum of four she has over a decade of experience writing about parenting in national publications, including columns with the Sunday Times Magazine and Femail in the Daily Mail. She also writes for the monthly and weekly fashion and beauty magazines. Lorraine is co-host of the chart-topping lifestyle podcast Postcards from Midlife. She is on the advisory board at Tate Modern and on the Tate gallery membership council.

Lorraine is a champion of educating young girls, working on the media advisory board of the global charity Their World. She’s also an ambassador for the charity Women In Sport and the newly launched Menopause Charity.

Louise Court, WiJ Director of Events will be interviewing Lorraine. Louise's early journalism career included work as an entertainment writer at Express Newspapers, deputy editor of Prima, and assistant editor of Woman's Own. Louise was then deputy editor at Best magazine, becoming editor later, and was also editor of Cosmopolitan UK.