Ian Kennedy is a new professional writer and editor with wideranging achievements in radio, theatre, film and other areas. His work aims to be distinctive, thought-provoking and often innovative. Ian is a Reader for SCRIPT, the body for creative writers in the West Midlands, and also a member of Screenwriters' Forum.

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...

• Nearly 150 episodes of award-winning BBC Asian Network daily drama series Silver Street from 2004 to 2009 (Clarion Award 2007, Race in the Media Award 2006, Mental Health in the Media Award 2005), including four 'special weeks'.
  
• Co-written feature film scripts and Script Editing on several feature film or television drama projects for several companies and partners.
  
• 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.
  
• 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).
  
• Short film: quirky four-minute piece Agenda Benda, directed by Scarlet Scardanelli in 2008, and other scripts.
  
• 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, and click here to download his new writing sampler document (PDF, 234KB). Ian was also interviewed in 2007 on the Creative Careers Surgery about working as a scriptwriter - 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: £350 per 10 minutes of script
• Script editing: £20 per hour
• Script consulting: £20 per hour (or £50-75 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.

• Professional Writing Sampler: new for 2009! Click here (234KB)
• Short Film: Agenda Benda on YouTube (4mins)
• 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)