Nicky Denovan
@nickydenovan.com
UK writer | Playwright & screenwriter | Edinburgh Fringe, BBC radio, theatre all over (New York to New Zealand) | Plays, scripts, pics, publications & performances at 🔗 www.nickydenovan.com
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Nicky Denovan
@nickydenovan.com
· Nov 17
Best thing anyone has ever said to me as a writer?
“Sleep well, knowing you are a household name in Racine, Wisconsin.”
“Sleep well, knowing you are a household name in Racine, Wisconsin.”
I’m thrilled to be named one of the winners of Broken Arts Entertainment’s Make Me Laugh contest from 480 global entries! 🎉
My play ARMCHAIR CRITIC will be part of the new audio anthology which records early next year 🎙️ 🎧
brokenartsentertainment.com/the-creative...
My play ARMCHAIR CRITIC will be part of the new audio anthology which records early next year 🎙️ 🎧
brokenartsentertainment.com/the-creative...
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I’m thrilled to be named one of the winners of Broken Arts Entertainment’s Make Me Laugh contest from 480 global entries! 🎉
My play ARMCHAIR CRITIC will be part of the new audio anthology which records early next year 🎙️ 🎧
brokenartsentertainment.com/the-creative...
My play ARMCHAIR CRITIC will be part of the new audio anthology which records early next year 🎙️ 🎧
brokenartsentertainment.com/the-creative...
Delighted to be a finalist for the London Independent Story Prize! My story “Belongings” will be published in their anthology next year 📖📚
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Delighted to be a finalist for the London Independent Story Prize! My story “Belongings” will be published in their anthology next year 📖📚
Like the heat death of the universe, I am ADVANCING
October 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Like the heat death of the universe, I am ADVANCING
Some recent cheering news from play/screenwriting corner 🎭 🍿
October 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Some recent cheering news from play/screenwriting corner 🎭 🍿
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Drama School, Day 1: This clip.
Day 2: Collect diploma.
Day 2: Collect diploma.
the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry
September 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Drama School, Day 1: This clip.
Day 2: Collect diploma.
Day 2: Collect diploma.
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A moment of high drama in Doctor Who as the Master menaces a cherry bakewell
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A moment of high drama in Doctor Who as the Master menaces a cherry bakewell
Nick Cave received an Honorary Degree at the RCA tonight. Permission to have this iconic image modelled as a cake topper, to be brought out for special occasions (also whenever I feel like it).
September 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Nick Cave received an Honorary Degree at the RCA tonight. Permission to have this iconic image modelled as a cake topper, to be brought out for special occasions (also whenever I feel like it).
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Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.
September 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.
Talking of poetry (*drags meaningfully on a Gauloise and adjusts beret*), here’s one of my favourite Roger McGough poems.
September 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Talking of poetry (*drags meaningfully on a Gauloise and adjusts beret*), here’s one of my favourite Roger McGough poems.
Please enjoy my deeply moving ode to the month of September.
September 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Please enjoy my deeply moving ode to the month of September.
I had a play on in Mexico this week - here’s write-up of The Bravo! Theatre’s 10-Minute Play Festival in The Guadalajara Reporter 🇲🇽 🌵
theguadalajarareporter.net/index.php/ar...
theguadalajarareporter.net/index.php/ar...
Bravo proves the best drama comes in small packages
Guadalajara's Best English-language Newspaper!
theguadalajarareporter.net
September 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I had a play on in Mexico this week - here’s write-up of The Bravo! Theatre’s 10-Minute Play Festival in The Guadalajara Reporter 🇲🇽 🌵
theguadalajarareporter.net/index.php/ar...
theguadalajarareporter.net/index.php/ar...
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Are YOU interested in writing a book review & receiving a FREE book??!
🧡❤️💜
If you have want to write a review of my book 'Reframing Women Printmakers', live in the UK, and have a popular blog, magazine or are part of sites like GoodReads please email me fridak456@yahoo.com
🧡❤️💜
If you have want to write a review of my book 'Reframing Women Printmakers', live in the UK, and have a popular blog, magazine or are part of sites like GoodReads please email me fridak456@yahoo.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Are YOU interested in writing a book review & receiving a FREE book??!
🧡❤️💜
If you have want to write a review of my book 'Reframing Women Printmakers', live in the UK, and have a popular blog, magazine or are part of sites like GoodReads please email me fridak456@yahoo.com
🧡❤️💜
If you have want to write a review of my book 'Reframing Women Printmakers', live in the UK, and have a popular blog, magazine or are part of sites like GoodReads please email me fridak456@yahoo.com
Everyone in the UK after an unseasonally warm day.
September 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Everyone in the UK after an unseasonally warm day.
News from my website: Shortlisted for Wells Festival of Literature Short Story Competition ✍️ 📚
🔗 www.nickydenovan.com/news/2025/9/...
#writing #writercommunity #amwriting #shortstory #shortstories
🔗 www.nickydenovan.com/news/2025/9/...
#writing #writercommunity #amwriting #shortstory #shortstories
Shortlisted for Wells Festival of Literature Short Story Prize — NICKY DENOVAN
I like to set myself a new writing challenge each year and, for 2025, I decided that I wanted to expand from writing plays into the daunting world of authoring prose fiction. I was therefore hugely ...
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September 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
News from my website: Shortlisted for Wells Festival of Literature Short Story Competition ✍️ 📚
🔗 www.nickydenovan.com/news/2025/9/...
#writing #writercommunity #amwriting #shortstory #shortstories
🔗 www.nickydenovan.com/news/2025/9/...
#writing #writercommunity #amwriting #shortstory #shortstories
I’m enormously excited to have been shortlisted for the Wells Festival of Literature international short story prize for my short story "Belongings".
Thank you to the judges for recognising my work! 📚
🔗https://wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk/
#shortstories #writing #shortfiction
Thank you to the judges for recognising my work! 📚
🔗https://wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk/
#shortstories #writing #shortfiction
September 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I’m enormously excited to have been shortlisted for the Wells Festival of Literature international short story prize for my short story "Belongings".
Thank you to the judges for recognising my work! 📚
🔗https://wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk/
#shortstories #writing #shortfiction
Thank you to the judges for recognising my work! 📚
🔗https://wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk/
#shortstories #writing #shortfiction
Delighted with this - Semi-Finalist for ALAN HAS LEFT THE CHAT in the Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards 2025! 🎥 🍿 🎬
September 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Delighted with this - Semi-Finalist for ALAN HAS LEFT THE CHAT in the Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards 2025! 🎥 🍿 🎬
The only way to describe this is to describe it:
It’s an immaculately suited Peter O’Toole arriving on Letterman while smoking a fag and riding a camel, which he proceeds to give a refreshing can of Heineken.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZIj...
It’s an immaculately suited Peter O’Toole arriving on Letterman while smoking a fag and riding a camel, which he proceeds to give a refreshing can of Heineken.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZIj...
Letterman - Peter O'Toole enters on a camel
YouTube video by Both Stuff And Things
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September 15, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The only way to describe this is to describe it:
It’s an immaculately suited Peter O’Toole arriving on Letterman while smoking a fag and riding a camel, which he proceeds to give a refreshing can of Heineken.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZIj...
It’s an immaculately suited Peter O’Toole arriving on Letterman while smoking a fag and riding a camel, which he proceeds to give a refreshing can of Heineken.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZIj...
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen in Costco? I’ll start:
Badly-Carved Bear Trapped Pointlessly in Log
Badly-Carved Bear Trapped Pointlessly in Log
September 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen in Costco? I’ll start:
Badly-Carved Bear Trapped Pointlessly in Log
Badly-Carved Bear Trapped Pointlessly in Log
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No man is poor who has a cameo in a comic book about a ventriloquist
September 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
No man is poor who has a cameo in a comic book about a ventriloquist
I think John Candy would have had an extraordinary second act in his later years. A hugely gifted actor, no part would have been beyond him. I will definitely watch this and I will probably* cry.
*Definitely
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcQ...
*Definitely
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcQ...
John Candy: I Like Me - Official Trailer | Prime Video
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September 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I think John Candy would have had an extraordinary second act in his later years. A hugely gifted actor, no part would have been beyond him. I will definitely watch this and I will probably* cry.
*Definitely
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcQ...
*Definitely
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcQ...
📣 Full line-up for the upcoming 10-Minute Play Festival at The BRAVO! Theatre in Chapala, Mexico! 🇲🇽
🎫 $350 pesos | 📧 tickets@thebravo.org | 🌐www.thebravo.org
🎫 $350 pesos | 📧 tickets@thebravo.org | 🌐www.thebravo.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
📣 Full line-up for the upcoming 10-Minute Play Festival at The BRAVO! Theatre in Chapala, Mexico! 🇲🇽
🎫 $350 pesos | 📧 tickets@thebravo.org | 🌐www.thebravo.org
🎫 $350 pesos | 📧 tickets@thebravo.org | 🌐www.thebravo.org