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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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What's in a name?

Earlier this year Chris Jones from The London Screenwriters'​ Festival and I ran a weekend course for new and emerging writers. We called it 'The Plot Thickens with Eleanor Greene'. I thought it was terribly clever. B…

Eleanor Greene · 12 October 2026 · 2 min

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Is Your Plot Thickening?

This (photo) is of me and my friend Chris Jones, writer and director of award winning features – long and short, and Oscar shortlisted writer and director for the short film, ‘Gone Fishing’. Chris is also the co-autho…

Eleanor Greene · 21 September 2026 · 2 min

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

Voices From The Static: Writing and Submitting An Analog Horror Script For Twisted50

Analog horror is one of the most exciting recent evolutions within the genre. Gemini Entertainment’s World’s Weirdest Animals is one of the most unnerving videos I have seen for years. Kane Pixel’s Oldest View series…

Dylan Spicer · 3 November 2025 · 2 min

Let’s Make A Halloween Film Too… You Have ONE WEEK For A Script!

For all our deranged writers who have already taken on our challenge of writing a short script (or are planning to) for our analogue horror short films , here are some amplifications to help elevate your chances. Due…

Emma Lee · 15 October 2025 · 1 min

My awards from Twisted Volume 3 arrived in Australia today…

My awards from Twisted Volume 3 arrived today—all the way from the motherland! Feeling so proud. Exciting news: Twisted Volume 4 is on the horizon, and I highly encourage you to sign up and submit your work. The entir…

Claire Rye · 28 February 2025 · 1 min

Creativity Takes Courage by Jess Brown

Now we are on the countdown to the Twisted 3 launch event, I have been reflecting on what this ‘come back’ has meant to me. Having dabbled with previous screenwriting Create 50 projects, I remember spotting the Twiste…

Jessica S J Brown · 23 January 2025 · 1 min

The rekindling of a (Twisted) love affair by James Burns

I blame Bette Davis. As an idiotic 10-year-old, I was allowed to stay up late to watch her terrifyingly demented performance in The Nanny and couldn’t sleep all night, convinced that she was hiding in the cupboard, re…

James Burns · 24 November 2024 · 4 min

Podcast Ep 004… Inside the Making of Twisted50 Volume 3: A Horror Anthology Journey

Ever wondered what it takes to put together a horror anthology? Well, the recent chat between Chris Jones and Kate Bemis, the masterminds behind Twisted50 Volume 3, gives us a fascinating peek behind the curtain. Kate…

Mistress Twisted · 18 November 2024 · 2 min

Twisted50: The Screenplay Challenge

OK you demented writers of Twisted50… Kate, who is working with me, has pitched an idea. She is looking for a horror short script and I suggested we open this up to Twisted50. Would you like to develop your short into…

Chris Jones · 22 October 2024 · 1 min

My first run at Twisted50 by Thomas M Pritchard

After the inevitable race over the finish line, my first submission for Twisted 50 2024 is in. A few years ago. I volunteered for the London Screenwriters Festival . At the time, I was a struggling film student and fo…

Thomas M Pritchard · 11 October 2024 · 3 min

A Twisted Guide to NaNoWriMo by Kate Bemis

With a month to go, NaNoWriMo sits on the horizon. Ominously. Threateningly. It’s an annual menace, glaring at me through the blinds of October. I couldn’t be more thrilled. If you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, I’m he…

Kate Bemis · 7 October 2024 · 3 min

Next Create50 Projects… What do YOU think we should do?

If we were to run another writing initiative, what do you think the theme should be? Can you share by taking the short survey below? Thank you SOOOOO much!

Chris Jones · 25 September 2024 · 1 min

Why I Love To Write Erotica Infused Horror

I have adored writing fantasy horror since I was lucky enough to be selected for Twisted50 volume 1. While my dull day job does keep me from writing as much as I would like to, I seem to squeeze in time for Twisted, r…

Sasha Black · 10 September 2024 · 1 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

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

Why YOU should enter Twisted50, Volume 3 with a Horror Short Story by Lucy V Hay

A Thought-Provoking Question Someone recently asked me the first time I knew I was a writer. This great question got me thinking. After all, they hadn’t asked me the usual question of ‘where do you get your ideas from…

Lucy V Hay · 7 June 2024 · 5 min

Listen to Filmmaker and Screenwriter Richard Osborne on BBC Three Counties Radio

I just got the file of the recording of Richard Osborne, one of the filmmakers whose film is in Impact50, of his radio interview from a few weeks ago. Listen below…

Chris Jones · 22 June 2022 · 1 min

Looks like I might be getting more than one film premiere this year, by Lynn Robertson Hay

I fully expected that the first project I’d tell you about would be my film BRAVE THE DARK, starring Jared Harris, which shot in the States last year – but another project has leap-frogged over it. And amazingly, it’s…

Chris Jones · 21 June 2022 · 5 min

And The Winners Are… Impact50 Awards Fanfare!

On Tuesday we honoured the very best of talent involveed in Impact 50 at the premiere, while also remembering those who have departed over the years. And to be clear, we have set two new world records. One for most sc…

Chris Jones · 3 June 2022 · 1 min

A Crowd Created Feature Film Project by James Lingwood

Filmmaker James Lingwood who is attending the premiere just got some brilliant coverage and wrote an article for his film community below… A Crowd Created Feature Film Project Nearly a decade from conception to World…

James Lingwood · 28 May 2022 · 3 min

Celestial Contact at Impact50!

I am delighted to announce that Alex Barton, meteor expert, is joining us at the premiere. And he is bringing a MASSIVE 8kg meteorite – the fusion crust of an iron meteor that superheated when it began to burn in the…

Chris Jones · 20 May 2022 · 1 min

Prepare for The Impact… Feature by filmink.com.au

by Dov Kornits May 18, 2022 The crowd-created feature was eight years in the making by sixty-seven writers and thirty-six directors (both world records), including Australians. If the premise of Don’t Look Up had you…

Chris Jones · 18 May 2022 · 4 min