About Linda
Linda Aronson is a working writer with awards as a scriptwriter,playwright and novelist. She has thirty years experience as a scriptwriter working for companies from Australia, UK, New Zealand and USA. As a scriptwriter, she has credits for feature film, TV series and serials, mini-series, children's TV, radio drama, stage plays, and TV drama-documentary. Her award-winning young adult fiction is published in many languages and her hit stage comedy Dinkum Assorted (about life in a World War II biscuit factory, written for a cast of fifteen women and a nanny goat,and for which she also wrote music and lyrics) has rarely been out of production somewhere since it premiered at the Sydney Opera House over twenty years ago. Following the extraordinary success of her two screenwriting text books, the award-winning 'Screenwriting Updated' and its successor, 'The 21st Century Century Screenplay' (which were the first to present writers with a coherent explanation and set of structural templates for writing nonlinear, flashback and fractured narrative films that did not conform to the Hollywood linear, chronological model), she is widely recognised as the a leading international expert on the topic. More recently, she has been applying her nonlinear templates to TV long form series writing, explaining how writers can use nonlinear story arcs to feed binge viewing. In her own work, she is now writing nonlinear, multiplot VR film scripts which, in doing away with player agency and running several fractured narratives simultaneously in 360 degrees along with soundscapes, haptics and complex surreal visuals, present a whole new use case for VR. She has also published short stories and satirical journalism.
Linda works internationally as a script consultant. She has guest lectured for many film industry professional bodies and film schools all over the world, including NYU, Columbia, American Film Institute, Berkeley (USA) NFTS, The Script Factory, Goldsmiths, London Screenwriters' Festival, Scottish Screen Academy (UK), FAS (Dublin), CEEA (Paris) DFFB (Berlin), NFTVA (Amsterdam), FAMU (Prague), Danish National Film School, the Swedish Film Institute and many more across Australia, New Zealand and in South Africa. Her screenwriting books are required reading at many film schools internationally. Other text books include Television Writing: The Ground Rules of Series, Serials and Sitcom and Writing with Imagination a book for schools.
Awards include Writers' Guild Awards for TV, The Elizabethan Theatre Trust Biennial Play Prize, STC Short Play Prize, Banff TV Series Prize, NSW Women and Arts Fellowship, The Sanderson Book Prize National Award for Academic Excellence in Publishing. Nominations include Writers' Guild awards for Best Stage Play, Best Original Screenplay, Best MiniSeries, Best TV Series Episode, Best Work for Children. Other nominations include AFI Best Original Screenplay (for her acclaimed film Kostas) and, for various of her novels, nominations for a number of Premier's State Literary Awards. Her VR film project, 'Ransom', which utilised her unique new form of nonlinear multiplot, multisensory VR but also utilised hot spots so that it could be rewatched in over 20 ways, was shortlisted in the Virtelio Competition, the world's first 360 degree VR Film Script Competition, even though it was still in treatment form.
Linda was born in London and studied English Literature at The University of Ulster. She worked for some years on a D.Phil in late nineteenth century fiction at Oxford, while at St Hilda's College
Linda works internationally as a script consultant. She has guest lectured for many film industry professional bodies and film schools all over the world, including NYU, Columbia, American Film Institute, Berkeley (USA) NFTS, The Script Factory, Goldsmiths, London Screenwriters' Festival, Scottish Screen Academy (UK), FAS (Dublin), CEEA (Paris) DFFB (Berlin), NFTVA (Amsterdam), FAMU (Prague), Danish National Film School, the Swedish Film Institute and many more across Australia, New Zealand and in South Africa. Her screenwriting books are required reading at many film schools internationally. Other text books include Television Writing: The Ground Rules of Series, Serials and Sitcom and Writing with Imagination a book for schools.
Awards include Writers' Guild Awards for TV, The Elizabethan Theatre Trust Biennial Play Prize, STC Short Play Prize, Banff TV Series Prize, NSW Women and Arts Fellowship, The Sanderson Book Prize National Award for Academic Excellence in Publishing. Nominations include Writers' Guild awards for Best Stage Play, Best Original Screenplay, Best MiniSeries, Best TV Series Episode, Best Work for Children. Other nominations include AFI Best Original Screenplay (for her acclaimed film Kostas) and, for various of her novels, nominations for a number of Premier's State Literary Awards. Her VR film project, 'Ransom', which utilised her unique new form of nonlinear multiplot, multisensory VR but also utilised hot spots so that it could be rewatched in over 20 ways, was shortlisted in the Virtelio Competition, the world's first 360 degree VR Film Script Competition, even though it was still in treatment form.
Linda was born in London and studied English Literature at The University of Ulster. She worked for some years on a D.Phil in late nineteenth century fiction at Oxford, while at St Hilda's College
