Two heads are better, and a lot funnier, than just one — just ask Justine Foster and Julia Pitt.

The two women joined forces to create No Heming Way, a romantic comedy that explored themes like writing, love and following one’s hearts.

The partnership won them the 12th Annual Famous for Fifteen Minutes playwright competition this weekend.

It was the first time in a collaborative team had ever taken home first prize in the competition.

Our question? Which one of them will get to keep the Golden Inkwell trophy?

Q: How did it feel to win on Saturday? What did that mean for you?

Justine: To be honest, I think we were both a bit stunned as we thought the other plays were so good. I can understand why the judge said it was very difficult to choose a winner, they were all so different and had merit in their own right.

Being selected as a finalist was wonderful, to be chosen as the winning play really was the cherry on top. Winning something like this is encouragement to keep on trying and hopefully keep getting better. Both Julia and I have been individual finalists before (Julia three times and twice for me) and each time we have gone through the process we have come away fired up for the next one.

Q: Do you think the collaboration of two creative minds helped at all?

Justine: Working together on the play started out as just a fun exercise, to see how a collaboration would work but as the play took shape we got more and more serious about it. Having two minds working together was great, we could bounce ideas off each other and try out lines — if a line or an idea made us both laugh it went in the play.

Q: What was it like working together? Was it challenging to get all your ideas down into one cohesive script?

Justine: To be honest, I am amazed at how easily it came together. Julia came up with the general plotline which gave us a framework to work around, then we sat down and threw out ideas.

We talked about who our characters were then we had fun improvising their lines and putting on accents. We wrote it all down and then took turns editing it.

This was probably the most challenging part as we had to be brutal and work out which bits really worked, so we had to argue for and against lines being in or out of the script. Fortunately we agreed on most things!

Q: What’s next for you two, do you have any more plans to work together on a project?

Julia: I know Justine’s got some writing projects in the pipelines but I’m hoping to convince her to team up again and possibly work on something a bit longer, a full-length play perhaps.

We’d also like to try our hand at some skit comedy — silly stuff that makes us laugh (not unlike our play) and are hoping to get a small group together to do that, if anyone’s interested. I’ve always wanted to write with a partner, it makes the whole process so much more enjoyable, and this has been so much fun, I want to make the most of it.

Q: Have you guys come to an agreement about who will be keeping the Golden Inkwell prize? Was that an easy or hard decision?

Julia: Well, Justine’s got it at the moment. In our excitement and total surprise at being chosen, we were all jittery and butterfingers over there dropped the award and cracked it, so it’s currently with her being mended!

With something like this, I’d be worried it’d get lost under a pile of papers or a stack of books at my house, and I’d forget to return it at the right time or something.

I think it’s safer if Justine holds onto it and I can just go and visit it, set among her husband’s beautiful artwork, during our Wednesday ritual when we get together for tea (and writing!). A bit of inspiration.

Q: I last spoke to you before the FFFM event started. What was the most rewarding part of the competition process for you?

Julia: First there was the joy of just finishing the play, that felt like accomplishment itself. Then getting selected to have it produced [was also rewarding]. I didn’t get to see the resulting performance until the very last night.

I was so nervous to watch it, I normally cringe at stuff I’ve had a hand in, but it was fab. Laura, our director, put a great spin on it, and the actors took our words and made them their own.

[Overall the best part was] a card from our leading lady, just before the final show, thanking us for writing such a fun part for her to play. That was it for me. I felt then, we’d done our job well. We did it to be a bit of fun for all involved.

Not to diminish the thrill of winning a prize, but I was so proud of us and happy to have been part of that whole production (as guest judge Seth Rozin said, all the plays were great, it was nigh impossible to decide between them) that The Golden Inkwell was really just a cherry on an enjoyable and already very satisfying cake!