The Writers' Guild Of Great Britain And London Writers' Week Announce Writing For Video Games Panel

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain and London Writers' Week have announced a writing for video games panel event, which will take place as part of this year's London Writers' Week and which will provide access to advice from some of the UK's leading video games writers.

Taking place on Friday 20th July at 12 - 1pm, the event will be chaired by Writers' Guild of Great Britain video game committee member David Varela, whose credits include writing the mobile adventure Sherlock: The Network, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, script consultancy on the chart-topping mobile game Zombies, Run! (which was nominated for a Writers' Guild Award), and writing the murder mystery game The Trace and who is currently narrative designer on an undisclosed project at Criterion Games.

Speakers for the panel event will also include Olivia Wood, who was recently selected by BAFTA as a 2017 Breakthrough Brit, and Rhianna Pratchett, who is an award-winning writer for games, comics, film, TV and short stories whose work has received awards from the WGA, the WGGB, DICE, SXSW, and a BAFTA nomination. Rhianna has written for DC, Dark Horse and Dynamite (notably writing an origin story for Red Sonja's chain-mail bikini) and is currently working on film and TV projects with the Jim Henson Company, Film4, Big Talk and O3 Productions. The final panelist will be Andrew S. Walsh who is an award-winning writer/director with credits across film, television, theatre, radio, animation and videogames. To date he has worked on videogames such as The Division 2, Prince of Persia, Lego City: Undercover, Risen, Harry Potter, Fable Legends and Need for Speed. His film work includes the English version of Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, while his time in television includes BBC's Raven, Emmerdale, Byker Grove, Risk, and Family Affairs. His theatre work includes Wind in the Willows which is touring South London this summer.

Jennifer Tuckett, Director of London Writers Week said: "We are delighted to be able to include this excellent event from The Writers' Guild of Great Britain's video game committee in this year's London Writers' Week. Writing for video games is an important opportunity for writers to know about and, as part of London Writers' Week's aim to provide access to and showcase the best new ideas going on in new writing in the UK each year, this year in terms of film, we are delighted to be able to provide access to advice from some of the writers leading the way in terms of writing for video games, in partnership with The Writers' Guild of Great Britain's video games committee".

The event continues the relationship between The Writers' Guild of Great Britain and London Writers' Week, and The Writers' Guild of Great Britain has been a supporter of London Writers' Week since its creation four years ago.

This year's London Writers' Week is also donating 100% of all profits to organisations promoting diversity in the arts. The organisations which will be supported by this year's London Writers' Week are The Diversity School Initiative, which campaigns for greater diversity in drama schools and whose board members include Vicky Featherstone, Artistic Director of The Royal Court Theatre, Actor Awareness, which campaigns for working class actors and writers and who recently made "The Acting Class" documentary with Maxine Peake, Christopher Eccleston and others, the London Playwrights Blog, an invaluable resource providing access to opportunities and advice, and University Women in the Arts, which aims to improve the transition from women studying the arts to working in the arts.

For more information and to book tickets please go to: www.londonwritersweek.com

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