My writing credits include an award-winning and nominated novel for young adults, a beats & brass musical set and performed in a chip shop, episodes for the BBC’s first Instagram drama for teens, a mini-opera libretto, a portfolio of play and screen scripts and a suite of factual and entertainment content writing credits for many leading UK and international media organisations.
Writing Awards
- Northern Writers’ Awards – Winner
- Grand Words Playwriting Competition – Highly Commended
- Faber & Faber FAB Prize – Commended
- BBC Performing Arts Fund Fellowship in Digital Storytelling
- IVCA Clarion Gold Award
- Northern Film School – Short Film Writing Bursary Winner
- Shelagh Delaney New Writing Award – Shortlisted
- Alternarratives Prize – Shortlisted
- Jhalak Prize – Longlisted
- Bruntwood Prize – Longlisted
- SI Leeds Literary Prize – Longlisted
Writing Credits
- Baby Girl – a multi award-winning and nominated novel for young adults
- Chip Shop: The Musical – fish, chips, beats & brass – creator, book & lyrics
- After Words – an interactive, immersive, looping story prototype for teens
- The Dumping Ground – digital and interactive content for the BBC
- Each Day I Live – for Dark Horse Theatre
- Leeds Opera Story – librettist for Northern Opera Group
- Where the Music Takes You – Armchair Adventures scripted podcast – for Made by Mortals
- The Change – a young adult novel, award-nominated as a work-in-progress
- After The DG – Bailey’s Episodes – an Instagram drama for teens for the BBC
- Christmas Presence – Dibby Theatre’s Christmas Do
- Tiger – for Freedom Studios
- Mortals – Bruntwood Prize longlisted
- Crybaby – short film – for Z-arts/BBC Performing Arts Fund Fellowship
- Selfies – Ambassador Youth Theatre, Stoke
- Hollyoaks High (Development Commission) – Lime Pictures
Development & Training
- Street Voices 4 scheme with Freedom Studios
- First Words children’s theatre writing scheme with Tutti Frutti
- Emmerdale Original Voices scheme
- Hollyoaks script shadow placement
- Writers’ Lab @ Bolton
- Writer’s development grant from BBC Writersroom & Leeds Playhouse
- So You Want to be a Writer course & showcase at Leeds Playhouse
- TAPS (Television Arts Performance Showcase)
- Production assistant on ‘Dockers: Writing the Wrongs’ documentary
Factual & Entertainment Writing Credits
- Writer, JISC Collections, Mickey & Mallory Ltd
- Writer/Senior Digital Producer, Bedtime Live Digital, Channel 4/TwoFour Group (IVCA Clarion Gold Award)
- Advised on existing content, researched and wrote new content and advised on proposed user journeys for the Healthy Stockport website
- Wrote and edited content for the Houldsworth Village urban development site, which was shortlisted for a Big Chip Award
- Wrote and edited content for the NHS Smokefree website (some content has been added subsequent to my involvement with the project)
- Wrote and edited copy for The Telegraph Media Group’s Advertising site
- Wrote and edited copy for Disney Channel’s global interactive portal, Star Factory
- Wrote and edited copy for the Nestlé Munch Bunch website
- Wrote and edited copy for the Discovery Communications Group, including copy for the Animal Planet Channel, Discovery Channel and Discovery Kids sites and interactive TV platforms. I wrote everything from short programme descriptions to large web-based factual guides to Sharks, Ships and Construction
- Editor & writer – Big Brother 3 Online
- Writer & Producer Ananova.com
- Writer & Sub-Editor – Swapitshop.com
- Editor & Writer – Wcities.com
- Writer & Reviewer – The Leeds Guide
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