Portfolio

Published work and literary awards

THE MEETING HOUSE – based on a true story

• Top 1% on Coverfly Red List 2024 & 2025
• Winner – Best True Story – Page Turner Screenplay Awards, 2024
• Winner – Best Screenplay – Movie Play International Film Festival, 2024
• Winner – Best Feature Screenplay – Berlin Int Art Film Festival, 2024
• Winner – Best Feature Screenplay – Berlin Int Screenwriting Festival, 2024
• Winner – Best Feature Screenwriting – New York City Ind Film Fest, 2024
• Winner – Best Feature Screenwriting – Seattle Ind Film Festival, 2024
• Winner – Best Screenwriting Feature – Magic Silver Screen, 2024
• Winner – Best Feature Script – Morgana Film Festival, 2024
• Winner – Best Feature Script – Venice Under The Stars, 2024
• Winner – Best Unproduced Script – Cineplay Int Film Festival, 2024
• Winner – Best Unproduced Script – Spring Time Int Film Festival, 2024
• Winner – Best Female Script Writer – Author Script Awards, 2024
• Nominated – Grand Prix: Best Feature Screenplay – London Director Awards, 2024
• Nominated – Best Feature Screenplay – Berlin Women Film, 2024
• Finalist – Screencraft True Story screenplay competition, 2025
• Finalist – Santa Barbara Int Screenplay Awards, Diversity Initiative, 2024
• Finalist – Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, 2024
• Finalist – Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2024
• Second Rounder – Austin Film Festival, 2023

A BOY CALLED FREDDIE – 1960’s screenplay

• Winner – First Time Screenwriter – London Director Awards, 2024
• Winner – Drama Screenplay – Prague International Film Awards, 2024
• Winner – First Time Screenwriter – Oxford Script Awards, 2024     
• Winner – Best Foreign Screenplay – Chicago Script Awards, 2024
• Winner – Best Feature Screenplay – Miami Women Film Festival, 2024
• Winner – Best UK Screenplay – Cambridge Script Festival, 2024
• Winner – Best Writer – Multi Dimension Independent Film Festival, 2024
• Winner – North Virginia Int Film Festival – Screenplay – Family and Faith
• Winner – Feature Script – Florence Film Awards, 2024
• Currently Nominated – New Media Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2025
• Nominated for – Best Script Unproduced – Hollywood Discovery Awards
• Nominated for – Best Script Unproduced – Red Movie Awards, 2024
• Finalist – Screencraft True Story screenplay competition, 2025
• Quarterfinalist – Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall 2023
• Quarterfinalist – Richmond Int Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2024
• Quarterfinalist – Filmmatic – Inroads Fellowship Season 7
• Quarterfinalist – Creative World Awards 2024
• Quarterfinalist – Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Season 9

Sophie has gained a Red List label and a total of 18 accolades on Coverfly

Published Works

The audiobooks ‘The Making of Swallows and Amazons’ and ‘Funnily Enough’ narrated by the author.

‘The Making of Swallows and Amazons’ first published by classic TV Press, 2014, 2nd  edition published The Lutterworth Press, 2017 

‘The secrets of filming ‘Swallows and Amazons(1974) ‘ self-published

Feature articles in The Daily Telegraph, Hampshire Life, Practical Boat Owner, 

‘Ride the Wings of Morning’ self-published, Ashton House Publishing, 2012

‘Funnily Enough’ self-published, Ashton House Publishing 2011, serialised in iBelieve magazine and winning 3rd Prize in the Rubery International Book Award.

‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ an anthology published by ACW, 2016. Sophie’s chapter was chosen by UCR Radio to be read on their Writer’s Trail Christmas Special, 2022

Foreword to ‘An A-Z: Cumbria and the Lake District on Film’ published by Hayloft Publishing, nominated for The Lakeland Book of the Year Award, 2017

Foreword to ‘Swallowdale’ by Arthur Ransome published by Albatros Media, Czech Republic, 2016

Foreword to ‘Swallows, Amazons and Coots’ by Julian Lovelock, published by The Lutterworth Press, 2016

Foreword to ‘Boats Yet Sailing’ by Trevor Boult, published by Lily Publishing

Foreword to ‘From Dust to Trust’ by Anthony Mitchell, published by Onwards and Upwards, 2024

Write Well: One of 50 authors contributing a chapter (pub by Instant Apostle, 2021)

Coming: ‘The Making of Coot Club and The Big Six’

Coming: ‘The Bitter Enders – Life on an African Farm’

‘The secrets of filming Swallows and Amazons Forever!’ DVD Extras, for Revelation Film, 2014

Articles in Daily Telegraph, Country Life, Cotswold Life, Classic Sailor, Practical Boat Owner, Living, iBelieve, Word in Action, Westmorland Gazette, Lymington Times and other newspapers

‘Makorongo’s War’ the true story a screenplay commissioned by Dashwood Films

INSET series of 3 x 30 min episodes for BBC Education TV

‘Boys About Girls: Girls About Boys’ for BBC Schools TV

‘Just Mum, My Sister and Me’ for BBC Schools TV

‘The Way People Talk’ for BBC Schools TV

‘Crazes’ for the series ‘Tutorial Topics’ for BBC Schools TV

Edited ‘Through the Dragon’s Eye’ a Look and Read publication for BBC Books: a storybook with educational notes that sold over 200,000 copies

Produced ‘Through the Dragon’s Eye’ audiobook for BBC Books.

Research: ‘Bluebell’ the authorized biography of Margaret Kelly by George Perry for BBC Books

Research: ‘Dawn to Dusk: on Safari’ by Jonathan Scott for BBC Books

Picture Research: The illustrated ‘My Family and Other Animals’ by Gerald Durrell for Guild Publishing and Grafton Books

Visual contribution: ‘The Dinghy Cruising Companion’ by Roger Barnes

Visual contribution: ‘Remembering Tenko’ ebook by Andy Priestner

President of The Arthur Ransome Society 2014-2019

Member of ACW – Association of Christian Writers

Christian Writers’ Directory

Member of NWS – Romantic Novelist’s Association

Appearances on the cover of other books and DVDs:

Sophie Neville as Titty and Simon West as John appearing on the cover of ‘Swallows and Amazons’

Caught shrieking on the cover of the French DVD of ‘Swallows and Amazons'(1974)

Member of:

Society of Authors