“If you want to spend 362 days a year sitting alone at a desk writing, you need to spend the other three days with us.”
That line came from Luke Graves, a screenwriter at the London Screenwriters’ Festival a few years ago. With Early Bird Tickets now on sale for next year’s event (2nd – 4th April) the event founder, film director and producer Chris Jones, says he thinks about it every year when they open the doors at Regent’s University.
“Writing is solitary by design,” he notes. “You sit. You stare. You delete the thing you just wrote. You doubt your own voice. You wonder if anyone is on the other end of the silence.
“Then for three days a year, the silence breaks. Hundreds of people who do what you do are in the same building. Someone you respect tells you the same thing has been happening to them for years. You walk out lighter than you walked in.
“That’s why The London Screenwriters Festival exists.
“The talks and speakers are the framework. The inspiration, confidence and connection you carry home are the reason people come back.
“If you have never given yourself three days inside a room full of your tribe, ask yourself why not.”
• London Screenwriters’ Festival 2027 runs 2nd to 4th April. Early-bird tickets are live here
Early Bird tickets are £399 (inc VAT) with full price tickets after the early bird ends at £499
A full pass gets you access to the main London dates including the pitchfest: Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th April. All past sessions are recorded and available in our videos archive, alongside 1000 other sessions from past festivals (including all sessions from last year).
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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