Author Archive | Chris Jones

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Remember That Time We Published Two Xmas Books?

It seems about two thousand years ago, as in this time last year, that we published two books for Xmas. One a kids book, the other a collection of Christmas ghost stories. Both are on Amazon globally and both feature stories written by new writers in the LondonSWF community. So if you want a unique […]

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This Girl is on Fire by Emma Johnson

This Girl is on Fire by Emma Johnson “Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise. Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise.” Maya Angelou There is a moment, just before you step onto hot coals, where the whole world seems to hold its breath. The guiding arm in front of you falls […]

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The London Screenwriters’ Festival to receive £42,015 from second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund

The London Screenwriters’ Festival is among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund  This award ensures that the festival will not just survive beyond the pandemic, but will thrive in these uncertain times. The London Screenwriters’ Festival is delighted to announce that it […]

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So it seems we have managed to achieve the impossible… Make Zooms and Online Sessions Exhilarating, Exciting and Fun!

The feedback from the first couple of days at LondonSWF365 is in and it’s bonkers good! I am delighted as we have worked really hard to make it high energy and exciting so as to enhance the learning, opportunities and experience of everyone attending. All sessions are recorded to watch later, so you can still […]

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Screenwriters, here’s how we are going to make February the BEST month of 2021…

I just spent five days deep inside an Arts Council Grant Application for the Festival, but in parallel the team has been ridiculously productive—launching new sessions, announcing new speakers and elevating the whole of February from Awesome to… even Awesomer! We planned the festival for February as we could see that on all fronts it […]

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Can you write a Christmas Ghost or Horror Story?

Deadline Dec 6th midnight GMT // 1,000 Words or fewer ‘Twisted 50: The Ghosts of Christmas’ is a collection of winter spine tinglers, fifty stories of the paranormal, fifty writers… fifty slices of terror. This special volume will be published on December 16th, just in time for that extra special gift this season… Can you […]

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Remembering Johnny Revolution

I just head that my old friend and filmmaker Johnny Kevorkian has died. I met Johnny when he worked on our first film, The Runner, in the spring of 1990. The production was crazy wild, we had so little idea what the hell we were doing! Johnny was around 16 and became the grip, in […]

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