Charlotte Paradise

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Charlotte Paradise is an author and award-winning screenwriter. Her debut literary fiction novel, Overspill, published in April 2025 with Akan Books (HarperCollins). Her short films have been selected, nominated and award-winning at BAFTA and BIFA qualifying film festivals, including internationally. She has an MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She’s currently writing her second novel.

If you’re looking for her, she’s probably cross-stitching her favourite film stills or re-watching Pride & Prejudice for the 374th time.

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Charlotte Paradise is an author and award-winning screenwriter with an MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her debut literary fiction novel, Overspill, published in April 2025 with Akan Books, an imprint of HarperCollins championing underrepresented voices.

Her dark comedy-drama short film, Sleepyhead, world premiered at the BFI London Film Festival 2023 (NFTS & Disney Star Imagine UK). It won Best British Short Film at Leeds International Film Festival and the Innovation in Craft award at Superfest Film Festival alongside 4 other awards. It’s also been nominated across categories, including for Best Writer. Sleepyhead is selected at multiple BIFA and BAFTA qualifying film festivals in 2024 and received a special mention at 225 Film Club.

Her debut short film, Chronic, visited festivals in 2022 and was nominated at BIFA qualifying film festival, Little Wing.

She wrote an episode of the Tiny Tales for Pampers podcast (Sony Music Entertainment) narrated by Lion King’s JD McCrary. Her first play, Mess, was performed at the Warwick Arts Centre in 2017.

She’s appeared as a guest on multiple podcasts, including The Rest Room discussing how to make a film about chronic illness.

Charlotte is represented for books by Ludo Cinelli at Eve White Literary Agency. She is currently editing her second novel: a darkly sexy and surreal historical fiction novel about Hysteria set in 1857.