Alistair Owen is the author of Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson (one of David Hare’s Books of the Year in the Guardian), Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters, Hampton on Hampton (one of Craig Raine’s Books of the Year in the Observer), The Art of Screen Adaptation: Top Writers Reveal Their Craft and The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd (one of Mick Herron’s Christmas picks in the Observer).

He has written original and adapted screenplays and stage plays, including feature film and TV collaborations with screenwriters Rupert Walters and Jeremy Brock; has contributed arts journalism to national newspapers and magazines, including interviews and reviews for Time Out, the Observer, the Independent on Sunday and Creative Screenwriting; and his first novel, The Vetting Officer, is available on Kindle and in paperback.

Alistair has chaired writer Q&As at events, festivals and online, including a series of screenwriter interviews in association with Creative Essentials and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain; he delivered and moderated the opening and closing webinars of New Writing North’s ADAPT series on screen adaptation; and his platform with Christopher Hampton in the Lyttelton Theatre to celebrate Faber’s 75th anniversary was published in the anthology Faber Playwrights at the National Theatre.

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