I'm delighted to share that my original television drama, Escorted, has progressed to the final shortlist for the 2026 Page Turner Screenplay Award, making it one of just nine screenplays remaining in the competition.

UPDATE — 30 September 2026

I’m delighted to share that Escorted has now progressed to the 2026 Page Turner Screenplay Award Longlist, making the final 37 screenplays from the 70 originally announced as finalists.

I'm delighted to share that Escorted was longlisted for the FilmNation TV UK strand of the Channel 4 Writing for Television Awards 2026, programmed by New Writing North with support from Channel 4.

Some more lovely news for Escorted. My TV drama has been named a Second Rounder in the Drama Teleplay Pilot category of the 2026 Austin Film Festival Script Competition.

I am delighted that my original television drama, Escorted, has been announced as a finalist in the 2026 Page Turner Screenplay Awards.

Back in 2024, I wrote Two Careful Owners as a half-hour television drama. It is one episode of an anthology series exploring love, loss, memory and hope.

One of the most enjoyable parts of writing television drama is reaching the point where the characters stop feeling like creations and start feeling like people.

When people ask how the writing is going, it's tempting to talk about the milestones.

An award.
A shortlist.
A new script.
An encouraging conversation.

One of the questions I’m occasionally asked is whether I consider myself a comedy writer or a drama writer.

Every writer has a character who refuses to stay in the lane you've carefully created for them.

For me, that character is Mandy.

Just over two years ago, Escorted was shortlisted for the All3Media New Writers Collective.

I'm delighted to share that Escorted has been named a finalist in the 2024 Page Turner Screenplay Awards.

I'm delighted to announce that my original television drama Escorted has been shortlisted for the All3Media New Writers Collective 2024.

I’m delighted to share that the television adaptation of Certified has been officially selected for the 2024 Best Script Awards – London.

I'm delighted to announce that the television pilot adaptation of Certified has been selected as a finalist in the 2024 Cambridge Script Festival.

When Certified was published in 2021, I thought I had finally achieved something I'd wanted to do for a very long time.

Alongside promoting Certified, I completed a television pilot adaptation of the novel and submitted it to the BBC Writers Open Call.

Alongside promoting Certified over the past couple of years, I have been quietly adapting the novel into a six-part television drama.

On this day two years ago, my debut novel, Certified, was published. It's been quite a journey.

I am delighted to announce that Certified is an award winner in the 2023 IAN Book Awards. The contest is open to independent authors worldwide and is recommended by the Alliance of Independent Authors.