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Four Minutes of Horror at LondonSWF by Suzy Miller

An email flew in from London Screenwriters’ Festival, calling out for maximum four minute horror audio scripts. To be recorded live with actors and mixed during the session with the legend that is Dirk Maggs. I happen…

Suzy Miller·17 April 2026·4 min

What I learned reading the Twisted50 Audio Drama Scripts by Heather Sutton

I read every script submitted for the Twisted50 Audio Drama competition and learnt some very interesting things. Across dozens of scripts I began to notice some patterns, both strengths and missed opportunities. This…

Chris Jones · 24 March 2026 · 4 min

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Kate DeLong · 26 September 2024 · 2 min

Why I wrote a horror story…and why you should as well!

As someone who usually writes comedy screenplays, writing a short horror story is very much out of my comfort zone. That is precisely why I decided to take part in Twisted 50. Obviously, the thought of potentially see…

Dorothee Kuepers · 5 September 2024 · 1 min

What I Write About When I Write About Horror

In an effort to stem my new-found enthusiasm for writing short horror stories I have imposed a time-out on myself. What you are currently reading are the results of that time out. I’ve taken a step back to take a long…

Randolph Davies · 2 September 2024 · 5 min

The Heart of Horror by Emma Pullar

When people ask me what I read/write and I reply with horror, their face often twists into a pained expression as if I’ve plunged a knife into them. “Horror? Ew! I don’t like horror.” I also read sci-fi fantasy and ch…

Emma Pullar · 31 July 2024 · 2 min

Top 10 ways to improve your story for your Twisted50 final draft

By no means a defnitive list, but a great start. What are your thoughts? Read more of the stories, to get more reviews on your own stories. The more you help other people by reading their stories, the more they’re inc…

Chris Jones · 22 July 2024 · 2 min

Ep 001 Twisted50 Podcast: Everything You Wanted To Know But Never Dared Ask

Amy : Hello and welcome to the London Screenwriters Festival. My name is Amy, I am a writer and producer with the LSF and I am joined today by the wonderful Chris Jones. Chris, would you like to say hello? Chris : Hel…

Amy Livingstone · 11 July 2024 · 26 min

How will you win Twisted 3? by Christopher Stanley

Twisted50 is back for a third and final outing, so for those of us who have yet to place a story in the series, this is our last chance. I was wondering: what’s the ideal story for a Twisted50 competition? Is it bette…

Christopher Stanley · 8 July 2024 · 3 min

Indepth Interview with Impact50 Founder Chris Jones on Reviewmyscript.com

I recently did a lengthy interview for Reviewmyscript.com and it just went live… You can read the whole article HERE and below are the first few quesions and answer… What inspired the Impact50 movement and what kind o…

Chris Jones · 16 May 2022 · 1 min

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‘Rothschild’s Giraffe’ and the Little Brown Job

On the basis (a) of Chris Jones’s call for blogs and (b) that this blog may well be better than my story ‘Rothschild’s Giraffe’, here goes. (It’s not so much a blog as a plea for redemption.) The suggested timeline fo…

Chris Jones·19 October 2018·2 min

How a Sci-Fi Screenplay Ended up in an Anthology of Short Stories

Back in 2015, before the invention of Brexit and Trump, I wrote a short screenplay called Automatic Drive. Inspired by the development of driverless vehicles, I imagined a future in which corporations responsible for…

Mark Renshaw · 24 February 2018 · 2 min