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Bookshelf in the studio of writer JD Wilkes

About

JD Wilkes, writer and screenwriter

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.

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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.

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Looking back, storytelling has probably been the constant throughout it all, sometimes through words, sometimes through images.

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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.

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Published Writing

Published columns by JD Wilkes for Aga Living magazine

Aga Living – Columnist

Published columns by JD Wilkes for Here Is The City

Here Is The City – Columnist

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