Writing


Stage

Sophie co-wrote the official Moomin Puppet show Mischief and Mystery in Moomin Valley, commissioned by South Bank Centre and Moomin Characters ™.  Other writing for the stage include In Time for Sole Rebel , Touch and Glow for Make Amplify and collaborating in the adaptation of Carson Ellis’ Du iz tak ? for Tiny Pickles. 

Sophie received Arts Council DYCP funding to explore links between magical realism and puppetry and has begun to adapt her prize winning short story The Improbable Yarn of Clark Curtis for the stage. 

As a devising performer and director Sophie has contributed writing and ideas to many productions.  

Currently writing a commission for The Bright Foundation.

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As a writer Sophie was the recipient of the Kate Betts Memorial prize for best writing in the MA Chichester University.

Winner of the Exeter story prize 2017, shortlisted for the Cambridge story prize, The Trisha Ashley Prize for comedy writing and Myriad first drafts.

Long listed for the Leicester short story prize, Trip Fiction and highly commended in the MTP short Story competition and Chichester Audio stories  .

Her work  has also been published by Litro mag, TSS, MIR online, MTP publishing and Poetry Today and features in the climate fiction anthology Sunburnt Saints, published by seventy2one.