WRITING
As storyteller I'm passionate about realistic, character-driven narratives: I like to explore themes of female identity, sexuality and relationships.
Most recently I wrote (and directed) my short film.
In the film I aimed to capture the complex, often hidden struggles of young adults in
working class London. Katie's story is one of resilience, maturity, and the high cost of
juggling personal aspirations with family obligations. The story takes place against a
backdrop of a city with an ever-growing social divide, restless pace and fierce
competition leaving many young people forced to grow up too quickly, shouldering
responsibilities they may not yet be ready for.
Through Katie, I hoped to bring an authentic portrayal of the emotional and practical
challenges of navigating young adulthood amidst personal and family duties. Her journey
represents the tension between self-identity and responsibility that many young people
face today. It’s a story about making hard choices, about grit in the face of limited
options, and about the sometimes uncomfortable gap between the life you want to lead and
the life you must lead.
This film is not just Katie’s story; it’s a snapshot of multiple women and young mothers
who are navigating their priorities in an act of selflessness. My goal was for audiences
to see themselves at times in Katie, to recognize the resilience and sacrifice of the
working class, and to appreciate the quiet, banality of everyday courage it takes to just
keep pushing forward.
I am always developing my next story, feel free to reach out if you are interested in reading a spec script or for potential collaborations!
WRITTEN WORKS
20TH CENTURY WOMAN
Screenplay (130 pages) - Submitted BBC Writers Open Call 2025
A celebrated author begins a career-spanning TV interview that unearths memories of motherhood, betrayal, and the childhood friendship that shaped her: a bond tested by distance, fractured by time, and reunited in the fading mind of a friend who can remember no one but her, they confront the tragic truths of the paths they chose, finding forgiveness, reconciliation, and a final goodbye.
VERMES
Screenplay (7 pages) - Submitted Roundhouse Film Fund 2026
After losing everything, a mother and her two young sons survive on the margins of a quiet town, living between public parks, petrol stations, and their fragile woodland shelter on scraps and small mercies; when morning comes and she no longer wakes, the boys must leave the only home they’ve known, carrying their grief into an uncertain world.
AWAY WITH THE ENEMY
Short story (8000 words)
Set in 1645 during the first wave of plague in a rural village in central Scotland, the story follows fifteen-year-old Beatris and her widowed mother, Morven, an apothecary whose knowledge of herbs and traditional remedies sets her apart from the community. As the pest spreads, Morven becomes one of the few willing to tend to the sick. Yet the same knowledge that allows her to heal also makes her suspect.
After Morven attempts to treat a young boy, he and his two unsickly brothers are found dead the following morning. Though the village initially calls the tragedy misfortune, suspicion grows as more people fall ill. Whispers begin about Morven’s strange prayers and solitary life, and in the frightened minds of the villagers the line between healer and witch begins to blur.
Fear spreads faster than the disease as Beatris is caught between loyalty to her mother and the mounting pressure of the parish. Through her eyes, the story explores how grief, superstition, and communal panic can turn neighbour against neighbour.
Set against the stark landscape of a quarantined Scottish parish, the themes reflect on a longer history of distrust toward women’s knowledge. As a new Christian orthodoxy asserts itself over Scotland’s older Pagan-Celtic past, Morven’s inherited practices become dangerous in the eyes of the village, revealing how fear and faith have often worked together to silence and ostracise women over centuries.
MILES BETWEEN NOWHERE
Novella - In progress
Over the course of winter to summer of 1976, nineteen-year-old Lola arrives in Ibiza, sent from Barcelona to stay with her aunt and uncle after a difficult winter at home. The island is quiet in the off-season, windswept and stripped of its summer glamour. With little to do, Lola drifts through slow days of markets, church bells, and empty coves, keeping mostly to herself.
At a market, she meets Marijke, a Dutch woman with a warm, enticing presence that both fascinates and unsettles Lola. Around the same time, she befriends Jim, a quiet pensive American who has washed up on the island after serving in Vietnam, carrying a quiet grief and scars from the horrific battlefield. Jim offers her companionship and stability, while Marijke awakens something more electric and uncertain inside her.
As the months brighten, Lola finds herself caught between the two: the soft safety of Jim’s affection and the magnetic pull she feels toward Marijke. Days on the beach and nights in smoky clubs slowly reshape her understanding of love, faith, and herself. Raised in a religious environment, Lola begins to question the beliefs she once accepted, while Jim, fractured by war, clings to a fragile personal faith that helps him make sense of his survival and life after loss.
Through quiet conversations, glances, and the sensual rhythms of the island, Lola undergoes a slow awakening, sexual, emotional, and spiritual. By the time summer arrives and the island fills with noise and tourists, she must confront the choices before her: whether to follow the safe familiar path, or step into an uncertain liberating world.
Set against the shifting seasons of the Balearics, this novella is a tender, introspective portrait of desire, grief, and the quiet moments that make life. It traces one young woman’s first real summer of freedom, and the people who teach her how to live inside it.