Feature articles
The Guild produces a quarterly magazine, UK Writer, sent free to members. If you would like to subscribe, but don't wish to join the Guild, please contact the office for details. Many of the articles in this section first appeared in UK Writer.
A report from the Guild event in April 2008.
A report from the Guild event in March 2008.
Interview with leading British scriptwriter and novelist.
Helen Smith reflects on her first year online.
An expert panel share their views on one of TV's most durable formats.
From Germany to Estonia, how plays can run and run.
Gail Renard outlines some key considerations when writing with a partner.
Moe Owoborode reports from the first in a series of events about writers collaborating with directors.
John Morrison flirts with online self-publishing.
Five writers reflect on the current success of British sci-fi and fantasy.
Screenwriter David Lemon recounts how he got his first feature film from a TAPS workshop to production, via a £1 million online competition.
Jayne Kirkham meets screenwriter Bob Baker.
Anne Hogben reports on the Guild's new President talking to David James at a special Guild event.
Stan Hayward on the joy of search.
Dave Cohen offers some tips for those taking a show to the biggest arts festival in the world.
Andy Walsh offers some advice on how to get paid on time
Screenwriter Robert Jones talks about his two new series: Party Animals and Rough Diamond.
Tom Green talks to Adrian Hodges about Primeval, his new prime-time series for ITV
Scriptwriter Gwyneth Hughes talks about her original BBC TV serial, Five Days, and how her background as a documentary maker informs her writing.
John Morrison investigates the market for audiobooks and considers the prospects for a format poised to enter a new era of change and expansion.
Richard Bevan talks to the people responsible for new writing at the Hampstead and Soho theatres.
Niraj Kapur explains how he has fought expectations about the subjects a British Asian writer should choose.
Tom Green speaks to screenwriter Paul Laverty about the reaction to his Palme d’Or winning film, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, and ten years of collaboration with Ken Loach.
Richard Bevan talks to the people behind Shed Productions, creators of Bad Girls, Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road.
Writer and consultant Billy Mernit offers rom-com scriptwriters a final exam.
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter talks about awards, directors and why writers must demand more respect.
Edel Brosnan speaks to Deborah Moggach about adaptations, arbitration and Austen.
Andrea Sanders-Reece explains how the Creators' Rights Alliance is facing the challenge of the digital age.
Don’t know your Aristotle from you Aronson? Jamie Sherry provides a quick guide to who’s who among the advice-givers.
Kevin Dyer, Action Transport’s first Associate Writer, explains how the company develops new work for, by and with children and young people.
Screenwriter Thessa Mooij offers an insight into the Dutch film industry.
Jamie Sherry speaks to influential screenwriting teacher Syd Field about the three-act structure, Renoir and why Sideways should have won the Oscar for best film.
Ray Cooney OBE talks about his love affair with the stage.
David Morgan explains how competition performance poetry is taking off.
Edel Brosnan meets novelist China Miéville.
Andy Walsh sets out the challenge and opportunities of writing for video games.
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