Anjum Malik

Photo credit - Tim Smith

Anjum has written several original radio plays as well as two series of her original Woman's Hour drama serial (THE INTERPRETER). She has also written DOCTORS and is developing an original screenplay. Previously Anjum has taken part in numerous writers residencies and developed original screenplays. Her stage credits include two stage monologues for the People's History Museum in Manchester and she recently took part in a residency with the Birmingham Rep.

Credits

2008/9 selected for TAPS Finding the Writer's Voice 2008/2009 Course, with the support of N W Vision

2008 BREAKING THE SILENCE
Radio script commissioned by Unity FM

2007 DOCTORS - BBC TV
Script broadcast

THE INTERPRETER - BBC Radio 4 (Woman's Hour)
5 part original woman's hour serial commissioned (second series)

2006 SILVER STREET - BBC Radio Asian Network
Week long special commissioned

2005 THE INTERPRETER - BBC Woman's Hour
Original radio serial commissioned

LOVE BOAT - BBC Radio 4
Commissioned to write original Afternoon Play

BIRADERI - North West Vision
Awarded screenplay development funding.

2004 - 2005 SILVER STREET - BBC Radio Asian Network
50 scripts for new Asian radio soap commissioned to date.

ZAKAAT – BBC Radio 4
Original play broadcast - The Guardian "Pick of the Day", The Daily Telegraph's "Choice", The Stage "Inspirational..."

RACE RIOTS - North West Vision
Awarded script development funding

NAHID'S STORY
Monologue performed at the Bradford Museum

2003 INTO THE LIGHT - Contact Theatre
Stageplay treatment commission

2002 NEW WAY NEW LIFE - Pump House Museum, Manchester
Monologue commissioned and toured in schools and community

2001 -2002 SNAKING FLAME (First Film Feedback Yorkshire)
Developed original screenplay

2001 MELA MANIA - BBC - Radio 4
Original radio play broadcast (the Times “Pick of the Day”)

SNAKING FLAME - BBC Radio 4
Original play broadcast

NAHID - Pump House Museum, Manchester
Monologue commissioned and performed March-Nov 2002

WAP (Talent TV)
Commissioned to write storylines for children’s live action TV series and attend brainstorming sessions with the BBC

2000 Performing Arts Lab’s Screenwriting Workshop – awarded place

BBC TV's Popular Drama Series Scriptwriting Course – culminating in writing DOCTORS sample script

1998- 1999 Writer in Residence for HTV, Bristol

1999 LOOKING FOR LOVE, stage play written in collaboration with HTV Workshop, tour of Somerset theatres

1997 MA in Scriptwriting for Film and Television from the Northern School of Film and Television, Leeds Metropolitan University

ESCAPE TO SOMERSET - short film commissioned by HTV (broadcast October 1998)

SPIRIT OF BRADFORD (poems for city centenary) – Redback Press

1996 BEFORE THE RAINS (poetry collection) - Huddersfield University Press

1992 FAT BREAD, THIN CHAPPATIS - co-written with Keith Khan, Ali Mehdi Zaidi and other writers. Performed at Stratford East Theatre London for two months followed by national tour. Also performed in Toronto, Canada

1991 SHAWL OF RICE, RAINS OF COLOURS – Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool
co-written and produced with Keith Khan

Residencies/readings etc

Appointed Honorary Fellow of Manchester Metropolitan University's Writing School in October 2008

GATEWAY TO THE COMMONWEALTH WRITER IN RESIDENCE – Lowry Theatre, Manchester - January to May 2002

POETS IN EDUCATION, APPLES AND SNAKES, LONDON - Poetry workshops with schools throughout Greater London

LIVING STORIES OF THE WORLD Cross-cultural storytelling seminars with artists from over the world

CHELTENHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL - Poetry, writing dance and storytelling workshops

SWANSEA - UK YEAR OF LITERATURE

VOICE IN THE CROWD - National Training Programme for writers, poets, speakers, teachers and librarians

ORIGINS - Residency with Bristol Literature Development project

Writing workshops with Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Manchester City Galleries and Museums, The Lowry, Salford and the Imperial War Museum (North)