We are the script writing community in Nottingham, Leicester, and beyond.

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Script East Midlands

We are a support hub for script writers in the East Midlands that are looking to elevate their writing. Sign up for opportunities and workshops, professional mentoring from award-winning scriptwriters or to hear your script aloud in our monthly Writers Group. Do you write for theatre, TV, film or audio? This is for you.

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Join our monthly Writers Group

Sign up to our next session, looking at all things script writing in East Midlands! Meet other writers, hear your script out loud, hone your craft.

Join Script Club

Script Club is an online space to chat scriptwriting, learn, and find opportunities. It is the place to be inspired, to ask questions, and get support for your writing.

WHAT WE OFFER

Writers Groups

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Have you gone through a couple of drafts with a script, and need to hear it out loud? Join our free monthly session! Give and receive feedback, mixing with other writers based in the East Midlands.

Script Swaps

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Have you written a script but are feeling a bit stuck? Not sure how to get it to a second draft? Sign up to Script Swaps! Get and give one-to-one peer feedback on an early draft, from another writer in our Script East Midlands community.

Workshops and courses

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Looking for script writing classes in the East Midlands? Never written a script, but would like to learn how? Or maybe you would like to hone your skills? Sign up to our workshops and courses to unlock your writing.

Mentoring

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Want to take your writing to the next level? Get personalised script coaching from an award-winning professional scriptwriter. One-to-one meetings with bespoke advice, written notes and guided follow-up.

Opportunities

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Are you writing to a professional standard, but not quite breaking through? Apply for our scriptwriting opportunities to build connections, showcase your work, and to learn from big names in the scriptwriting world.

“ScriptEM have cultivated such a healthy atmosphere for people to share their work in, giving me the impetus to revisit my script and improve it. I'll definitely be joining in again.”

– James, Leicester

Blog

Tips & tricks

A monthly blog by award-winning playwright and ScriptEM founder Hugh Dichmont, exploring everything scriptwriting, from industry to craft, and everything in between.