The 2026 Channel 4 screenwriting course is now OPEN for entries - until Monday October 6th script-consultant.co.uk/channel-4-sc...
22.09.2025 08:42 — 👍 8 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
The 2026 Channel 4 screenwriting course is now OPEN for entries - until Monday October 6th script-consultant.co.uk/channel-4-sc...
22.09.2025 08:42 — 👍 8 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0I published two stories today. It was a great honor to work with Afeef Nessouli on the one documenting the genocide and famine in Gaza. Afeef spent 9-weeks there, and we tracked how the U.S. dismantling USAID & UNRWA has made getting food deadly for kids, men, women, queer & trans Palestinians
21.07.2025 21:06 — 👍 392 🔁 218 💬 7 📌 6We've moved from 'don't say gay' to 'ban trans'. But this time, it's the policy of a 'Labour' Government.
16.07.2025 11:14 — 👍 793 🔁 254 💬 30 📌 16
London Summer Social for #Playwrights #Screenwriters & their friends! Thurs 23rd July 7-10pm at Soho Theatre WALTHAMSTOW. All welcome - all levels of experience. Come with friends or come alone! Pls share. #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial
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This takes 5 minutes. As a cis bisexual woman, I feel personally affected by this attack on trans people because I am frightened for people I love, and for my own rights when the people who did this smell blood in the water.
09.06.2025 11:05 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Powering through a pilot outline in an imaginary co-working space with the girls:
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Nick Clegg being a shit over artists rights
The latest in a long line of terrible humans seeing if they can destroy people lives before asking if they should. If only sociopaths were seen as bad instead of rewarded.
24.05.2025 09:15 — 👍 3250 🔁 564 💬 232 📌 126
Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.
There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.
I’m something!
21.05.2025 17:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An amazing and generous thread from David about taking care of yourself, your show, and your collaborators after a green light.
21.05.2025 16:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A couple of years ago, I started posting that women’s bodily autonomy in the UK was coming under attack whilst feminists were being distracted by transphobes’ bullshit.
And here we are. Here we fucking are. The police issuing guidance on how to bypass the law to get hold of information.
"We cannot concede to the anti-migrant agenda promoted by those who thrive on division."
The PM’s "island of strangers" remarks yesterday were shameful scapegoating. It’s dangerous rhetoric that risks fuelling hate & setting a deeply troubling precedent.
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I would like to have maybe three fewer creative industry cataclysms in my lifetime, please. Thanks for nothing, ‘Labour’.
11.05.2025 14:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I got to see Sinners at the BFI IMAX and it fucking ruled. Original horror with a packed audience, nothing better.
23.04.2025 23:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A bunch of wonderful playwrights (headed up by @kaylatmf.bsky.social ) have been working in support of the trans community in wake of the UK Supreme Court ruling organising this open letter in support & solidarity. We have over 1500 names. If yr a UK-based writer & pls add your name
23.04.2025 07:04 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0Why does ‘protecting women’ never look like harsher punishments for rape, assault and femicide that almost exclusively happens at the hand of cis men? Why isn’t it free sanitary products? Why not more money into the NHS to help sick women? Why is it always an attack on our most vulnerable sisters?
16.04.2025 13:00 — 👍 383 🔁 133 💬 5 📌 5OpenAI trained on a massive pirated database trained on six of my books and short stories. Meta's AI trained on a massive pirated database of THIRTY ONE of my works. Just about every author you know has had their life's work scraped and fed into the machine without consent. Please stand with us.
03.04.2025 10:53 — 👍 290 🔁 140 💬 3 📌 3Join me in giving what you can to a charity that’s needed now more than ever. Help them get to 100% and the donation is doubled!
22.03.2025 11:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0An incredible charity doing incredible work. We all talk about supporting new talent in the arts and creative industries. Here is a practical way you can do that RIGHT NOW.
19.03.2025 16:09 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0
Devastating news for the writing community, a huge blow to our members who write for River City, to loyal audiences, and another serious erosion of continuing drama
Read our statement in full on the cancellation of BBC River City from 2026
writersguild.org.uk/river-city/
The BBC cancelled Holby City to bring in new continuing drama productions in the "nations and regions" (outside the M25) and has since then axed both of its nations and regions continuing dramas.
18.03.2025 13:13 — 👍 37 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 1
“You see articles about factory closures when 100 people lose their jobs, and it makes national news. It’s 40 times worse for the film and TV industry right now and nobody seems to notice.”
I’ve been screaming about this for a year now. Do we just let the UK TV industry die? 🤷♂️
We need art right now, more than ever! Art counters misinformation, builds empathy, and can strike at the heart of apathy. Art is a threat to fascism.
It always has been.
Losing creative voices in games, TV, publishing - that’s going to leave a cultural void.
Don't be put off by the disgracefully dense and difficult way this consultation has been (quite deliberately?) laid out. You don't need to answer all the questions and the @writersguildgb.bsky.social have got a checklist of the main points. Please take the time to do it, it matters!
24.02.2025 13:46 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
From Shon Faye's Instagram: On the Hunter Schafer passport story: This isn't just America. in fact there are very well mobilised lobby groups in the U.K. making arguments for similar measures here. There's been a slow creep of this stuff: the constant litigation of "what a woman is" is designed to normalise interrogation and hectoring of trans people, the fact that despite having a legally changed my birth certificate I would now go to a men's prison in the UK, the constant attempts to get the Equality Act definition of "sex" changed... If Labour ultimately lose future elections due to their own incompetence and lack of vision (likely) and Tories and Reform clobber together some kind of mandate there will one hundred percent be discussion of preventing trans people from changing documents in the U.K. It's ironic how the term "woke" got bastardised by the right because the original exhortation by Black American communities to "stay woke" was about be awake and live to rising state hostility, violence and fascism. So to British non-trans people shocked by Trump please be alive to the fact we are also sleepwalking into something very dark.
Sharing from Shon Faye's Instagram
22.02.2025 12:09 — 👍 654 🔁 272 💬 4 📌 8Depressing if unsurprising read in the @theguardian.com tonight: ‘Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn.’ This is unsustainable. You cannot hold a mirror up to the world unless you’re prepared to see every aspect of it. #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky
21.02.2025 23:28 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Keep up the pressure!!! The government's proposal is effectively empowering big tech to steal from artists; it's unethical and sets a dangerous precedent. Learn more & fill out the consultation here: www.equity.org.uk/campaigns-po...
21.02.2025 18:59 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0My mental and physical health has been a total flop so far this year, but I’ve had some tentative good news on a couple of projects and, boy, am I ill-advisedly clinging onto that for dear life!
21.02.2025 08:55 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Banger debut show incoming from Billy!
20.02.2025 09:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gov plans on AI + copyright will weaken copyright protections + allow AI companies to use writers' work without permission or payment
Respond to the Gov’s consultation on copyright + AI by midnight on Tues 25 Feb to get your voice heard
Pls share too!
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