I’m a writer of things
Security started life as a stage play that I wrote as part of Off The Rock Productions’ “The Trove of Curiosities” evening of plays, and it went down really well. In the audience one night was Tony Hipwell of Grunt Productions, who showed an interest in making it into a film.
York based theatre company Wildgoose Theatre, in conjunction with Script Yorkshire, put out a call for scripts for their ‘3 or 4 for 1 or 2’ strand of performances.
In October 2017 I was lucky enough to have a play I wrote with Anna Rose James performed by York Settlement Community Players.
Wrens was a script I wrote for Tony Hipwell of Grunt Productions, and I was thrilled that I got the chance to act in it as well.
To my great surprise and delight, I had one of my short stories published in the York Literary Review.
Skeets started life as my entry for the final of Script Yorkshire’s Script Factor. Tony Hipwell from Grunt Productions was present at the event and showed an interest in turning the script into a short film.
I was approached by Matthew Wignall of Off The Rock Productions to write a short script for an upcoming evening of five contemporary tales of the supernatural, each by a different writer and director.
I was honoured to have a short play I wrote featured at Script Yorkshire’s David Nobbs Tribute Evening in Leeds.
Every year, Script Yorkshire hold a scriptwriting competition called Script Factor. It’s open to anyone, usually has a theme and this year I heard about a last minute cancellation and snuck onto the bill of the York event.
The set up was right. NaNoWriMo 2014 was upcoming, and I had no intention of writing another novel. It Looks Like You’re Writing a Letter, my first NaNo story, had been very well received, and pretty much anyone who wanted a copy had one, but I told myself I wouldn’t write another book unless I… Read More I’ve written another novel – and you’ll never read it