Ian Kennedy is a new professional writer and editor with wideranging achievements in radio, theatre, film and other areas. His work is distinctive, thought-provoking and often innovative. Ian is now an official script reader for Script, the agency for creative writers in the West Midlands.

As well as creative work, IQK is available for high-quality Copywriting, Marketing and Business Planning, and poems and plays to order. Ian Kennedy's work to date includes...

• 100 episodes of award-winning BBC Asian Network daily drama series Silver Street to date (Clarion Award 2007, Race in the Media Award 2006, Mental Health in the Media Award 2005), including two 'special weeks'.
  
• A feature film thriller and inventive short film, both co-written with Pavan Deep Singh, which have secured investment for production.
  
• Innovative new plays - a thrilling new psychological play, trialled at Wollaton Hall in Nottingham in 2007, and offbeat Edinburgh Fringe hit Haze, as well as a new adaptation of Dario Fo's classic farce play Can't Pay? Won't Pay! for the age of chavs and asbos at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
  
• Journalistic articles, features and spoofs in national WhatsOnUK publications.
  
• Script Editing and advising writers for Islamic CGI children's series Talib and the Woid, and for Arts Council funded group The Radio Rep.
  
• Co-Founder and Head Writer on award-winning student radio soap opera Lenton Boulevard at URN 1350 (Best Entertainment Show, Radio 1 Student Radio Awards 2003).
  
• Author and Editor of Trash FM, a twisted online satire and sitcom.

Take a look through the pages on the left to see more detail on Ian's work. Ian was interviewed in 2007 on the Creative Careers Surgery - if you'd like to know about scriptwriting click here to access the podcast. An article about Ian and his scriptwriting work was also the central feature of the summer 2006 newsletter of Script (www.scriptonline.net/SpecialFeatureJune06.html)

If you are looking for a writer or editor to help you realise a project or series, or professional input into your own work, Ian Kennedy has the range and talent to help. Ian is also a certified Trainer, available for hire from £20 per hour. Email enquiries@iqkennedy.co.uk and let him know what you're looking for.

Got something you'd like Ian to write or edit? Here are some guideline fees...

• Scriptwriting: £450 per 10 minutes of script
• Script editing: £20 per hour
• Script consulting: £20 per hour (or £35 for a general reading and appraisal through Script, http://scriptonline.net

A few extracts...

Short pieces to give a more rounded illustration of Ian's distinctive writing style in a short space of time! All are in PDF format - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, free from www.adobe.com.

• Radio drama: Rivals (159KB)
• Plays: One-way Battle of the Sexes (or, How Men Get Away With It) (57KB); Artifis - Opening (48KB)
• Novels: A Mortal Universe - Actuality - Opening (60KB)
• Poems: Happiness (45KB), False Villanelle (57KB), It seems we have discovered poetry (59KB), To die in your arms (39KB)
• Prose: Grief (45KB), Commons (60KB), Cromwell (60KB), Dreamer (64KB)
• Reviews: The Onion's 'Our Dumb Century' (96KB)