Playwriting

I started playwriting when I was a member of Slough Writers and had an initial success when my play Holding Up a Mirror was performed at the Reading Progress Theatre Writefest in 2012. Subsequently several of my one act plays were performed at the local library in Burnham, Bucks., to raise funds for the library.

I have several plays listed with Lazy Bee Scripts, one of which, Imperfect Speakers, was performed in Australia.

I have submitted work to Directors' Cut Theatre and was fortunate a few years ago to have a monologue selected for a showcase entitled The Interview which was performed at the Leicester Square Theatre in London.

Most recently I have had two short plays, one for radio, Lost in Translation, and The Bogeyman selected for performance at the Suffolk INK Festival 2018.

News

[September 2023] Finished writing the Circle67 Panto for Jan 2024 - Robin and the Babes in the Wood. Reading and casting up next!

[August 2023] Submitted a play - Immature with Age - for 2024 INK Festival.

[April/May 2023] Three stories accepted for The Peoples' Friend magazine.

My adaptation of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona will be performed by Circle67 this summer.

Giving a talk at Halesworth Public Library about my novel, Shelf Life.

[February 2023] Second prize in Writing Magazine Ekphrastic Poetry competition.

[November 2022] Short listed in Writing Magazine's 'Shelley' poetry competition.

[October 2022] Named 'Writer of the Week' in The People's Friend magazine, and Runner Up in their short story competition.

[18th May 2020] The virus lockdown is limiting any thatre activity but I am posting much more on my blog (see Start Page for details).

[23rd January 2019] Have had two plays accepted for production in this year's INK Festival in April.

[17th December 2018] My story Body of Evidence has been riding high on the website www.short-story.me for the past week.

[1st February 2018] Both plays will be performed at the INK Festival 2018 in April!!

[20th December 2017] Two of my one act plays shortlisted for the INK Festival 2018: The Bogeyman and Lost in Translation.

[30th September 2017]

Finally completed first draft of current novel The Failed Buddhist. Now the editing begins!

I will be reading poems at the Suffolk Poetry Festival on 27th May 2017.

[21st October 2016]

My play - Sorry, You're Leaving -

being performed tonight as part of Slough Writers Drama Showcase.

[[1st September 2016] Latest novel Shelf Life now published through FeedARead.com

[4th March 2016] Short listed in Writing Magazine poetry competition.

[23rd November 2015] Just about completed editing/proofing of current novel Shelf Life

[6th November 2015] Made the short list in Writing Magazine poetry competition.

[12th October 2015] Slough Writers' play night Six of One at Burnham Library Festival included my play Holding Up a Mirror.

[22nd August 2015] Director's Club Showcase The Interview monologues will be performed tomorrow night. Rehearsals are going well.

[23rd June 2015] My five minute monologue has been selected to be performed at Leicester Square Theatre in August as part of The Director's Club Showcase.

[24th April 2015] Slough Writers production of Plays in Practice at Burnham Library included an extract from my play Book Club.

[16th December 2014] Got a runner-up prize in the Gold TV Christmas cracker joke competition.

[1st December 2014] I managed to complete this year's NaNoWriMo challenge, producing 50,000 words of a novel during the month of November. Now beginning the proofing and editing of The Title Holders' New Challenge.

[22nd Sept 2014] Submitted story A Fitting Outcome to Words with JAM spoof genre competition.

[5th May 2014] My short story 'After the Rains Fall' is in the May issue of Readers' Digest.

[23rd March 2014] My play - Imperfect Speakers - was performed by the Cowra M&D group, NSW Australia, as part of the Cowra 50th anniversary of Festival of International Understanding.

[2nd March 2014] Runner-up prize in Readers' Digest 100 word short story competition.

[16th January 2014] Short story, Lost in Translation, published in Dark Places Magazine Vol.5. - available on Amazon Kindle £0.77p.

[8th January 2014] Now starting to edit A Park Full of Pelicans. Also writing opening chapters of Idle Times of a Failed Buddhist (working title).

[12th November 2013] Won second prize in the Slough Writers Poetry Anthology Competition (see my poetry page for a selection)

[25th October 2013] Empirical Evidence now available through Amazon Kindle