Updates and News
The Emergent Heroine: Elevate YOUR Screenplay in this Intensive One Day Workshop
When: Wednesday, April 8th 10:00 to 17:00 // Where: Regents University AND streamed online (available for one year) // How much: £47.99 //
Defy the Blueprint, Explore Hidden Patterns & Transform Your Screenplay into the Story You Were Meant to Write.
The Heart of Your Script: Mastering Your Middle Act
The title of the 2025 London Screenwriting session was actually “The Heart of Your Script: Mastering Your Middle Act”, but the “dark forest” metaphor was so useful and dominant during this talk by Ted Wilkes and Phillip Hughes that I thought it deserved a chance to shine in the recap.
Writing for the Vertical Age: Why Short Scripts Matter More Than Ever
Vertical storytelling is changing how stories are told, and mastering short, focused screenwriting is now the key skill for writers who want to stay relevant.
LSFReplay: 10 AMAZING and FREE Screenwriting Masterclasses To Help Elevate YOUR Writing and Career
LSFReplay offers ten free screenwriting masterclasses from the London Screenwriters’ Festival, every Tuesday online at 8pm UK time.
‘The Plot Thickens’ with Eleanor Greene
A two-day practical and professional development workshop for screenwriters wanting to break into TV, get noticed, represented, commissioned and produced. Writing is an art
Join us FREE for the London Screenwriters ONLINE Festival March 7th and 8th
March 7th and 8th, we are hosting a TWO-DAY Screenwriters Online Festival and YOU can attend completely free.
Talent Campus Almuni Kick Off Podcast: No Bad Notes
Talent Campus 9.0 Graduate Hannah Palmer-Prior, with LSF’er Athena Mandis have just launched a podcast for screenwriters… Check it out! Here’s their blurb. Have you thought of jacking it all in after receiving notes on a script? Felt misunderstood? Or even that your masterpiece was not read properly? Rest assured you’re not alone.
The screenwriter of one of the most successful films in modern times reveals how to create a blockbuster comedy that every country will copy
In this article you’re going to discover the insider advice directly from the creator of this film: Dean Craig, a screenwriter and director, who I had the opportunity and the honour to interview at the London Screenwriters Festival, 2025.
Scott Myers: how to use the “receptive writing method” that will make your screenwriting journey easy and successful
As a writer, you wander in the land of fiction, fighting doubts, exploring fears, and losing yourself in the white pages of your screenplay like a hero.
Usually, you focus your studies on learning the journey of your characters.
Meet Oscar Nominated Meg LeFauve at Ealing Film Studios, June 28th
The London Screenwriters Festival is THRILLED to announce that screenwriter Meg LeFauve and her producing partner Joe Forte will be giving a talk for screenwriters and filmmakers at Ealing Studios on June 28th at 4pm.
Summer Film and TV Super Networking Event At Ealing Studios: Sat 28 June, 6pm.
Join us for a bring-your-own-drink networking event at Ealing Studios on June 28th at 6pm. Entrance via the White House only.
You know that you’ve come home when it feels like Disneyland
I offered to write a blog as I had such a ball on the LSF live stream this April. Its my first time, having had no awareness of LSF (how did that happen?!) until a work colleague gave me a link about the Thursday Replays. I also did the March online-only festival and was able to sign up for streaming-only ticket on the April festival.
Prepare Yourself to Get Produced: Three Things You Can Start Doing Today – Tips from Experts on LSF Replay
Screenwriters Rachel Paterson and Sean Robert Daniels were joined by director Isabelle Seib, and they had a great panel discussion about getting produced and maintaining a career.
London Screenwriter’s Festival 2025: My Festival Highlights and Top Tips
By Rajan Sabanathan I asked screenwriter Rajan Sabanathan, a first time LSFer, to share his top tips, insights and takeaways from the festival. Bullet
London Screenwriter’s Festival 2025: A Rockstar’s Journey
By Rajan Sabanathan Part two of two from screenwriter Rajan Sabanathan, a first time LSFer, to share his top tips, insights and takeaways from
Diary Of A Screenwriter at LondonSWF by Helen Tompson
A jam packed day, which started with a double session with Samantha Horley – a hugely helpful insight to the commissioning process and how a script is sold, how genres impacts this, and what you can do to really bring home your pitch in the premise with genre.
Feedback for the London Screenwriters’ Festival 2025
‘Attending the London Screenwriters Festival is one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life. It gave me the confidence to push myself out of my comfort zone and bet on forging my own path. Day one, I didn’t consider myself a screenwriter. Day 2, I had a request from an exec for a 2 pager! The festival was an incredible whirlwind of opportunity, impressively organised, with a diverse array of speakers and opportunities to learn, engage and practically put your skills to the test with pitching’
Emily Fuller // Screenwriter
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (actually, 1,000,000 stars)
Sometimes Feedback From LondonSWF Hits Home…
I am just compiling the feedback from the 2025 festival, and I wanted to share this form from Paula Stenson. She articulates EXACTLY where
I Just Put My Money Where My Mouth Is
Three of our superhero volunteer team are running crowdfunds for their films and I just backed all three. If you feel like it, chuck a fiver into one, or all, just to say thank you for their help at the weekend. Or just share a link on socials if that is what you can do.
Screen. Play. by Guy Ducker
I’d not been to the London Screenwriters’ Festival for some years, maybe not since 2017. As you might expect, it’s changed. The venue is the same—Regent University, neatly hidden in London’s Regent’s Park—but the tone is different, or perhaps just more noticeable. It’s fun.
Want to Add Flavor to Your Script? Sean Robert Daniels Shared Four Key Elements of Good Writing from The Screenwriters’ Cookbook on LSF Replay
It’s hard to tell which Sean Robert Daniels loves more, food or stories. Even though I’m a pretty damn good cook and experienced wordsmith, I had never really stopped to think about how these things overlap. Daniels, however, has clearly let the idea… marinate for some time. (Yeah, it’s gonna be that kind of post).
Review of the London Screenwriters Festival Online Launch 2025 by Kate Mizon
, the online launch of the London Festival in 2025 was bloody good, and like I said, though I enjoyed the in-person event which has so many benefits that I may have neglected to list, the online festival is a game-changer for me.
Zoom Meeting On Pitchfest Prep with Chris, Bob and Lisa
Chris, Lisa and Bob provided an overview of the upcoming pitch fest event, emphasizing the importance of preparation, making a good impression, and building relationships. Watch the video here…
Congratulations To The Writers Selected For The Advanced Mentoring Script Labs
Drum roll please, for the writers selected for the mentoring labs. NOTE: We are still waiting on confirmation for Scott’s lab, hence why this announcement is so late.
Three Big Ideas from LSF Replay’s Creating Compelling Characters with David Baboulene
It doesn’t matter how good the performance is, just seeing an actor cry isn’t enough to make 99% of us cry along with them. We can recognize the emotions, but without any context it is just noise, and probably a noise we’d rather avoid.
LondonSWF Labs Case Study: I am buzzing! By Neil Weatherall
I’ve just come out of an Advanced Mentoring Script Lab, part of this year’s London Screenwriters Festival and I’m just buzzing. The two mentors were Pat Higgins, dubbed the ‘Essex Auteur’ by Empire magazine and ‘one of the masters of horror’ by The Dark Side, and Marcus Markou whose brilliant debut feature film Papadopoulos & Sons, he wrote, directed AND distributed himself, achieving the second highest screen average of any film in its opening weekend, and going on to be shown by the BBC and Netflix.
Seven Weeks At 100mph, My Internship at LondonSWF by Chloe Sears
The past seven weeks have been a whirlwind of curveballs and learning experiences, but if there’s one thing we know how to do here at the London Screenwriters’ Festival, it’s get creative. I walked through the gates of Ealing Studios in February with no clue what to expect, but excited for the journey all the same…
Six Screenwriting Lightbulb Moments from the LondonSWF Online Launch by Jo Simmonds
A powerful reminder that great storytelling starts with rewriting those crucial first ten pages until they sing, embracing both intuitive character work and structured plotting, handling feedback with resilience, staying true to your creative vision even when told to compromise, never pitching before you’re ready, and always, always ending with a confident “thank you.”
What I Learned About Myself at LondonSWF
When I first interviewed at LSF, I intended to enter as a meager intern, spending my days notetaking and brewing tea. Quickly, this concept proved to be far from reality.
LondonSWF Online EXTRA! The Online Festival Follow Up
We did drop two speakers for logistical and tech reasons, so next Tuesday at 7pm, we are running an EXTRA two hour session.
What was the LondonSWF Online Festival Like? by Lynne Garner
My advice to any script writer regardless of age or experience is if you get the chance to attend a LondonSWF event then do it. Lastly, I’d like thank Chris, Bob, and Jan for their hard work before and during the event. You guys are AMAZING!
Three Tips to Deepen Character Relationships from Kira-Ann Pelican’s Attachment Theory Session on LSFReplay by Alison Weaverdyck
As you meander through the writerly corners of the internet, you’ve probably run across the advice that “character is king” in screenwriting, especially television. Clearly the LSF folks think so too because they started the LSF Replay series with a one-two punch of insightful character sessions.
Feedback from the Online London Screenwriters’ Festival 2025
‘I am blown away by the amazing programm, the wonderful chair-dances that lift up any writer’s spirit, the impressive and well rounded line-up of highly competent and acomplished guest speakers, the great moderators : amazeballs from A to Z!’
Lavinia // Creative producer / Writer / Actress
Whoaaaa! 16 Actors Table Reads In One Night Over Zoom!
Feedback from the writers form the first Actors Table Read block, and it’s off the scale….AGAIN!
Hearing My Script Come to Life at the London Screenwriter’s Festival
Writing is, by nature, a solitary process. We create characters, shape their voices, and imagine exactly how they’ll move and interact in the worlds we build. But no matter how vividly we see these moments in our heads, there’s no substitute for watching professional actors bring them to life.
Three Takeaways from Gemma Mushington’s Trial by Fire Session on LSFReplay by Alison Weaverdyck
Curiosity may claim the life of the occasional unlucky cat, but so far it’s never steered me wrong. Which is why even though I’ve been writing and editing across genres and pen names for a while now, I still love to be a student whenever I can be. So imagine my delight when I found out about the LSF Replay series going on right now.
