Remember Tracy Brabin, who played Coronation Street's Trish Armstrong - mother of Jamie? Tracy's gone on from acting to writing for soaps and some excellent TV drama. Check out her profile here.
Tracy will be one of the soaps writers speaking in the Writing for Soaps session at this year's London Screenwriters Festival. The festival takes place in that London from October 26-28th October 2012 at the London School of Film, Media Performance, Regent's College.
The Writing for Soaps session is scheduled to take place on Saturday 27th October at 3.30pm. The schedule is here.
Also lined up to Chair the session is Yvonne Grace. Yvonne has 20 years experience
in producing and script editing long running series and soaps for
ITV and the BBC. She latterly Exec Produced Crossroads and before that, produced Holby City. She has also script edited Eastenders and run
storylining workshops for Corrie. Yvonne runs a script editing and writer mentoring website called Script Advice http://www.scriptadvice.co.uk/
Yvonne and Tracy are joined by Mr Holby City Tony McHale.
STOP PRESS: Corrie writer Damon Rochefort now confirmed to join this soaps session. More info here.
If anyone goes along to this and would like to write us a blog post after the event about the Writing for Soaps session, please do get in touch.
Check out the festival website.
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