Maggie writes across formats and genres. She’s driven by curiosity, compassion and connection and fascinated by people — “us” not “them”.
Maggie had a successful journalism career in national magazines and newspapers, writing features and fiction, before completing a scriptwriting MA at Goldsmiths College London. She quickly found her feet on popular BBC drama Doctors and wrote many episodes. It was a fabulous learning curve in what could be achieved when creativity was limitless, even if budgets weren’t.
Maggie’s original work explores parenthood, families, identity, death, love, betrayal, courage, but with a twist. She is drawn to horror and darkness, but always with humour and compassion. The infinitely human search for meaning and belonging underlies all her writing but also her current media role, as astrologer for the Sun newspaper and Fabulous magazine, connecting with millions every day.
FEARBNB
(writer)
TV Horror series.
A fractured family reunite in an “evil” isolated Scottish rental property, where a previous group gathering ended in tragedy. Each brings their own demons – as they start to realise the true evil may be inside themselves, and not everyone can survive. Returning series potential – like White Lotus – each series can be located in a different rental property with a different set of characters.
DEATH NELL
(writer)
TV Drama series.
After one knockback too many, nurse Nell Dunbar adopts her own code of practice. If you’re dying, she’ll walk with you honestly and fearlessly, help wring every last drop of joy out of life. If you’re stalking, abusing or killing – she may just murder you. Either way, tough, tender, tormented Nell finds her professional niche. Until death, and life, bite back.
COASTBUSTERS
(writer)
TV Comedy drama series / cosy crime.
A burnt-out city couple relocate to a quaint seaside resort and (reluctantly) find their chalk-and-cheese skillsets in demand to solve local supernatural mysteries. Set in Kent, but with an original hook of featuring authentic regional myths and legends, it could relocate.
GHOSTED
(writer)
Feature rom com.
A cynical single mum’s no-strings shag with a narcissistic player turns into a nightmare when he die in, and proceeds to haunt, her ensuite bathroom – forcing both flawed individuals to face their issues with love before either can move on.
DOCTORS
(writer)
BBC1. Episodes include: An Exercise In Truth; Smokescreen; Such Devoted Sisters; Legacy; Ab Flab; Crash Barrier; Perfect Match; Snowbabies; Lust for Life; Three’s A Crowd; Blind Spot; Milk; Let The Wrong One In; Peanut; Brotherly Love; Cool Mom; Hungry; The Sharp End; Check Mate; Scar Tissue; Pushed; Wait Problem; Knee Jerk; Rock and a Hard Place; Set in Stone; Memory Card; Wings; Chickichita; Indelible Ink; Henry; The Capable One; Bolt From the Blue; Mother Nature; Ashes to Ashes.
DELIVERY DAY
(writer)
An excited couple prepare for the delivery of the baby they have meticulously planned and ordered online to their exact specifications. But one of them – or maybe both – has not played by the rules.
*WINNER Goldsmiths Short Screenplay Prize
