We invite discussion about screenwriting as an art located somewhere between fact, fiction, truth, and the real. We are particularly interested in abstracts for presentations on the following topics:

• In relation to truth claims and narrative, can we separate the teller from the tale?

• Writing the Real: adapting events into stories

• How does collaborative screenwriting negotiate fact, fiction, truth, and the ‘real’?

• How do we frame the local, the national, and the indigenous?

• How can we narrate from a transnational position?

• How do specific orthodox screenwriting frameworks affect the tales we tell?

• Teaching fact, fiction, truth, and the ‘real’ in screenwriting

• Reflections on narrative theory and conventions

• Screenwriting and Literature: the adaptation of source narratives into scripts

• Censorship, ratings, and screenwriting

We would also like to invite abstracts for presentations beyond the theme of the conference. We are looking forward to abstracts that cover the wide field of screenwriting studies, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Practice-based research in the field of screenwriting

• Writing for series television

• Different screenwriting practices and formats

• Case studies on individual writers or texts

• Historical perspectives on screenwriting and screenplays

• Screenwriting, the screenplay and different production structures

• Screenwriting and narrative theory in writing for short films

• Screenwriting for games and animation

• Screenwriting for new media forms, online, transmedia, etc. Are stories fully transferrable from one medium to another?

• How does the digital age change screenwriting?