Professional Memberships
Work in Progress
| Title | Work | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Mnemosyne | Writing a stage play for HighTide Writer’s Group | Writing First Draft |
| As the Crow Flies (Working Title) | Fantasy Novel | Wrote an additional 50,822 words in NaNoWriMo 2022. Editing and reworking in 2023 |
| Various | Edits | Ongoing editing work on existing drafts |
Honours / Awards / Challenges
| Name of Award / Achievement | Company | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Place in HighTide Writers’ Group | HighTide Theatre | 2024 – 2025 |
| The Cooper Prize short story competition Brief – Short Ghost story featuring a strong male character Borrowed Time | Norwich Writers’ Circle | 2024 |
| National Novel Writing Month Writing 50,000 words in one month | NaNoWriMo | 2022 |
| Honorary Mention for ‘Acoustic‘ – Horror Screenplay | Frights! Camera! Action! | 2022 |
| Scriptly Writing – Wrote 14 screenplays in 14 days | The Literal Challenge | 2021 |
| 28 Plays Later – Wrote 28 plays in 28 days | The Literal Challenge | 2021 |
| Scriptly Writing – Wrote 14 screenplays in 14 days | The Literal Challenge | 2020 |
| The Prize for Outstanding Performance by an MA Student | University of East Anglia | 2019 |
| Free Read funded by Arts Council England | National Centre for Writing and The Literary Consultancy | 2019 |
Published Writing
| Title | Work | Publisher | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arm in Arm in 1888 | Poetry | Included in the book ‘Feathers and Pennies: Poems and Stories for the Matchgirls’. Celebrating the Matchgirls Strike in 1888. | Thamesis | 2021 |
Produced Writing
| Title | Production Type | Name of Theatre | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abandoned Places | Short play incorporated into a larger promenade theatre performance, ‘Spirit of the Place’ | Slow Theatre and The Jenny Lind Project | 2018 |
Unproduced Writing
| Title | Work | Status | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waggle Dance | Short Screenplay | Submitted for opportunity | Nov 2023 |
| Ashes of Bone | Short screenplay adapted for stage/event | Rehearsed reading at Imperfect Storms by writers of the East Anglian branch of WGGB | Mar 2023 |
| As the Crow Flies | Screenplay. Now being written as a novel | Rehearsed reading at Imperfect Storms by writers of the East Anglian branch of WGGB | Apr 2022 |
| Acoustic | Screenplay | Honorary Mention in the Frights! Camera! Action! Screenplay and Film Contest | Jan 2022 |
| Hat & Grace | Audio Play | Hat & Grace is available via the New Play Exchange | |
| The Elbow Grease Strategy | Short Play (Brechtian) | Developmental reading with Maddermarket Theatre. This play is currently available on the New Play Exchange | Jun 2021 |
| The Jade Palace | Short Play | Developmental reading with Maddermarket Theatre. This play is currently available on the New Play Exchange Version 1.0 was 12th Floor, Room 2 and was read at 28 Plays Later Zoomthrough (see bottom of this page) | Feb 2021 |
| Unlocked | A short play in a collection of short Walking Plays | Available: Full collection of Walking Plays – Synopsis and playwright list available to theatres /producers by request Unlocked is also on the New Play Exchange The Walking Plays are due to be aired on Airplay podcast in 2022, with Unlocked in 2022 | Feb 2021 |
| Cat Sick | Short play | First developmental readthrough at Sewell Barn Theatre in Norwich Version 1 available on the New Play Exchange | Sep 2020 |
| Six | Monologue | Readthrough and recording by Helen Fullerton in 2021 The monologue now available on the New Play Exchange | Jul 2020 |
| R101 – Dancing with Hydrogen | Poetry | Poem about R101 airship flight and its catastrophic touchdown in Alonne, France | Jun 2019 |
| Lily | Scratch performance | ScriptEast at The Garage | 2018 |
| The Suitcase (working title) | Full stage play | First draft | 2018 |
Teaching Experience
| Class Title | Subject | Name | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Character and Dialogue | Creating characters and getting them talking to each other | Read Write Chat Meetup | Merchant’s House Norwich | 2018 |
Courses, Workshops and Masterclasses
| Course | Organiser | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Creative Writing | Ian Ayris Pen to Print | 2022 – 2023 |
| Beginners’ Playwriting | Lucy Kaufman Pen to Print | 2020 – 2021 |
| Advanced Playwriting | Lucy Kaufman Pen to Print | 2020 – 2021 |
| Writing Ghost Stories | Jacqueline Gabbitas Pen to Print | Oct 2020 |
| Spoken Word Workshop | Sass Herbert Pen to Print | Dec 2020 |
| Scriptwriting Masterclass | John Yorke LA Productions | Oct 2020 |
| Editing Your Writing | Margaret Johnson Norfolk Adult Education | Sept 2020 |
| Creative Writing | Margaret Johnson Norfolk Adult Education | Apr 2020 – Sep 2020 |
| Writing Historical Fiction | Imogen Robertson Pen to Print | Aug 2020 |
| Playwriting workshop | Rosa Torr | Jul 2020 |
| Creative Writing Workshops | Creative Futures with the National Centre for Writing | Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 |
| Get Scripted Scriptwriting Weekend | Lynsey White NUA Ian Nettleton UEA ScriptEast | 2018 |
| Writing Characters | Steve Keyworth Slow Theatre Company | Feb 2018 |
| Writing for Performance | Danusia Iwaszko Slow Theatre Company | Jan 2018 |
Freelance
| Work | Company | Year |
|---|---|---|
| English Editor | MDPI | 2021 |
