Writer
Jackie Wilkes writes character-led comedy and drama about ordinary people caught in increasingly extraordinary situations.

About

I write character-led comedy and drama about ordinary people whose lives have a habit of becoming rather less ordinary.
My writing often starts in familiar territory: friendships, families, workplaces and communities, before something shifts and the characters find themselves somewhere they weren't expecting to be.
I came to writing through a career across the creative industries. I started in advertising and graphic design, including working in Los Angeles, and went on to work across branding, editorial, PR, hospitality, film and contemporary art.
Throughout that time I was also writing magazine columns, treatments, press material, stories and screenplays.
Looking back, storytelling has probably been the constant throughout it all, sometimes through words, sometimes through images.
I'm now concentrating on my own writing.
My completed feature comedy drama Ashes to Stashes is currently mid-revision, alongside new screen projects including Right of Way, The Stick-Up and Netball.
I also write fiction, including my novel-in-development Driftmeyer, and very short fiction in my collection of 100-word stories.

