John Allen (He/Him)
johnnyawrites.bsky.social
John Allen (He/Him)
@johnnyawrites.bsky.social
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Scribbler of comedy, science fiction, fantasy, horror. Scriptwriters & Co Festival 2025 Quarter Finalist, High Tide 2025 Longlist, Chorts 2024 Final 50, QuaranCon 2022 Winner. Learn more about me at https://johnallenwriter.com/
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#hansellasoffmenu #teaser #shooting tomorrow!
Huge thanks to Christie Peto & Tayla Kenyon from @teepeeprods.bsky.social helping me with this. Seemed daft not to try as the script was a finalist @scriptsandco.bsky.social, Wiki, & now the FINAL 10 at PAGE International youtu.be/w3GpLIqXHRI?...
Hansella's Off Menu - Intro to the teaser
YouTube video by James Lasing presents... (AKA John Allen)
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At a friend's funeral yesterday reminded me of the importance of staying connected, but also living more offline. There were no phones. No selfies. No one trying to jump up and down for attention. Just friends and family remembering, chatting, mourning and celebrating our friend.
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If someone had told me 20 years ago that one day l’d be number 1 in breast cancer on Amazon I’d… probably not have been too happy about it.

Still, this is nice to see, today!

And you can buy the book here:

linktr.ee/ThisMightSur...

#cansky
Replace the word "cat" with the word "baby" and it's closer to the mark.
Nice surprise this week. "Hansella's Off Menu" has made the final 10 in the TV Comedy category at The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards. And we aim to shoot a teaser in October! pageawards.com/past-winners...
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Go on, have a peek inside my book!

“This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story” will be published NEXT WEEK!

Preorders are open now! linktr.ee/ThisMightSur...
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Good opportunity for a little R&D for anything you might be working on. #playwright #screenwriting
S&CO SCRATCH NIGHT SUBMISSIONS! Deadline: 12 noon GMT 18 Sept. Event: 7pm, 23 Sept. FREE ENTRY! Send 5-10 page scripts on theme ‘Yesterday’, ‘Today’ and/or ‘Tomorrow’. Winners performed on Zoom by pro actors + notes from Zanna and Alex. Full details and enter: scriptwritersandco.com/events.html 🙂
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“This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story” is now available for pre-order!

It’ll be published in the UK on 25 September.

Pre-order here: linktr.ee/ThisMightSur...

#cansky
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Calling all Ghost fans! The polls have closed and the chart has been created! Join me Monday 18th August at 8pm on @phoenixfm.com for the Ghost Top 20 show!

This will be an evening of Ghost celebration so I would love to hear your stories

Tune in www.phoenixfm.com

Remember, if you have Ghost...
I'm so sorry Hayley! I'll reach out to Gaie separately. I only saw them a few months ago. You're all in my thoughts today and a lot more besides.
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This is rather lovely - "Adventure SF with heart" - my latest story, out now in #analog
Highlights etc...

David Gerrold @dergullen.bsky.social@shiwritesprose.bsky.social@matthewclaxton.bsky.social‬ James Dick Joseph Weber Sean Monaghan @JayWerkheiser @frankwu.bsky.social‬ John Brunner Charles Stross Geoffrey A. Landis @ceciliatan.com‬ Liz Williams Steven Utley Allen M. Steele
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If you’d like to see my Debut show “Nerine Skinner: The Exorcism of Liz Truss” I am sending the link to people via my Kofi page. If you make a donation through my Kofi page, I’ll send it over! 💕I know a few people have asked to see it, so here goes!
Kofi: ko-fi.com/nerineskinner
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My son does this when I leave a banana nearby. He loves bananas.
Why so silly? Having a 1 year old Supreme Leader dictating what I can and cannot do is limiting my social media time. Anyway, I actually got 5 minutes to collect my thoughts (and try not to cry over an empty wallet) this week! johnallenwriter.com/blog/why-so-...
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And so it would transpire that Kneel Before Pod hit 300 regular format episodes (!!!), and we marked the occasion with a double-header Twitch/YouTube livestream.

You can now hear the audio edit on the feed, wherever you get your podcasts 🤩
Holy 300th Regular Format Episode Batman! Join us for the audio edit of our recently live-streamed 300th podcast. We chat, we play games and interact with an engaged audience of multiple listeners. Celebrate with us in your ears

kneelbeforeblog.co.uk/podcasts/300...

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Such a great night at Ryaknots Theatre's scratch night last Thursday. Not only was it great to see other works in progress, I couldn't have asked for a better cast to bring "Carrots for Mum" to life in such a short space of time! Kudos to Arabella Fraser, Ruth Piggot and Lucy Eddington! #theatre
Be kind. Do the right thing... Then eat a truckload of pizza, drink some beer, and tell the world to go do one whilst you're tapped out.
#Playwrights Great update from @mrdavebyrne.bsky.social at @royalcourttheatre.bsky.social Read! You won't regret it!
This week the Royal Court Theatre significantly expanded our offer to playwrights everywhere. And all you need to do is send us your play.

I've written a letter to playwrights to explain the changes and the thinking behind them.

👁️ royalcourttheatre.com/playwriting/...
What a lovely post David! And yes, I think this is a much better way to encourage writers to keep sending work. I don't live in London but I love the Royal Court and any way I can take part and develop as a writer is a Godsend at the moment. Thanks for sharing!
What posh train are you on? 😅 I'm lucky to see a 3 pin plug in the ones I use!