Hugh Stoddart

I have a degree in law but chose not to pursue it as a career, becoming involved instead in the visual arts, finally as Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, at the same time beginning to make headway as a writer for film. I became a full-time writer mainly thanks to my adaptation of To the Lighthouse for TV (1983) and an original screenplay Rememberance for the cinema. Other work has included We Think the World of You, The Big Battalions, a 6-part drama serial for Channel Four, The Mill on the Floss for the BBC and Dialogues of the Dead, also for the BBC.

I’ve worked as a writer in prisons and I’m currently Editor of Not Shut Up, a magazine for creative writing by London’s prisoners. I’m a screenwriting tutor at Bournemouth University and the London Film School and have held fellowships at UEA, Exeter, Sussex and Kingston. I’ve served on the Executive Council of the Writers' Guild and chaired their film committee.

I was on the Board of the ALCS as an independent member 1998-2001 and returned as a co-opted Director this year.

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