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Is Your Idea Perfect? Or Beautifully Messy?
Perfect? Or Beautifully Messy? A script is not a pomegranate. Last week I peeled a pomegranate. Its a fiddly job, time consuming, the white skin clinging stubbornly to the red seeds. You have to pull the whole thing a…
Eleanor Greene · 13 October 2026 · 2 min
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You have to jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down: my time at LSF by Ellie Rofe
Photo by Annabel Vere A few days before this year’s London Screenwriters’ Festival I left my degree at Cambridge. It was a tough decision: a degree from Cambridge can be a very handy thing after all. But while I enjoy…
Chris Jones · 25 September 2026 · 5 min
People like me don’t go to events like LSF by Elkie Yates
LSF is a professional event, full of professional writers and the like. People getting paid actual money for scripts, they probably speak using big words and have diaries full of very important meetings. Whereas I’m,…
Chris Jones · 22 August 2026 · 4 min
How LondonSWF changed my life and career and why I am coming all the way from Australia again by Sally Pitts
I was fresh off the boat from Australia, when I came across the London Screenwriters’ Festival. It was already 97% sold out. I didn’t have a job yet and with the Aussie dollar being a bit meh I was a little apprehensi…
Chris Jones · 22 July 2026 · 4 min
Courage, Friendships and Pitching! How one weekend can change you by Dorothee Kuepers
Having attended the London Screenwriter’s Festival on a few occasions in the past, I thought I knew what to expect. In many ways I was right. I knew I would learn a lot from the amazing speakers. I knew I would reconn…
Dorothee Kuepers · 8 July 2026 · 7 min
Panic and Pitching: Conquering Fear at the London Screenwriters’ Festival
Preparing for the London Screenwriting Festival is much like getting ready for a job interview…Or a first date. Or anything else that gets your heart beating. It’s daunting and scary. “Do I need to prepare something f…
Julia Campisi · 5 November 2025 · 15 min
Can You Wirte A Christmas Horror Short Screenplay? Podcast with Bob Schultz
Chris: So welcome to this podcast with me, Chris Jones, about twisted 50, our horror anthology writing opportunity for new writers. The idea is write a short story under 2000 words in the horror genre, modern horror,…
Chris Jones · 3 September 2024 · 13 min
Why Writing A Short Story CAN and DOES Lead To New Opportunities
Author, screenwiter and past Talent Camper Mark Renshaw just posted about a recent thrilling journey that began with a short story he wrote – we don’t know which, but it could well be the one he wrote for Singularity5…
Chris Jones · 23 August 2024 · 3 min