Staff Profile

Role:

• Following an AHRC-funded PhD (2017), supervised by Professor Linda Anderson and Dr Tina Gharavi, I joined Newcastle University as an Associate Lecturer.
• Now Lecturer, I am the Module Leader for SEL3403 Screenwriting Portfolio. I work part-time and typically teach and supervise on all Screenwriting modules.
• In addition to my work for the School of English I also taught and supervised for five years, on the MA Film, for the School of Modern Languages.
• I especially enjoy supervision. Following graduation my previous supervisees have moved on to specialise in screenwriting/ production/ filmmaking at the National Film and Television School (NFTS), London; Birkbeck, University of London; Manchester University; University of Salford; and have undertaken roles as TV and publishing interns and runners. Within Newcastle University, my supervisees have won, e.g., The Cowan, Johnson and Watson Prize for Best File of Original Literary Work in Creative Writing. I encourage all students to enter writing competitions and I update these regularly during modules.

Professional Affiliations:

SRN: Screenwriting Research Network.

BAFTSS: British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Writing Overview:

Screenwriting: feature screenplay The Good Iranian (2016-2019), with BAFTA-nominated Tina Gharavi & César-winning Nicolas Peufaillit. [Winner: Cannes 'Breaking Through the Lens' Award].

Film writing: currently editing a forthcoming book of essays for Bloomsbury's Screen Storytellers series on prolific screenwriter and legend-of-cinema, Sylvester Stallone.

Prose: joint winner of Toby Litt's 'Best Opening Chapter' competition; longlisted for The Daily Telegraph's 'Novel-in-a Year' competition.

Short story: shortlisted for the Willesden Herald prize; longlisted for the Asham Award.

Journalism: As a former clinical editor and journalist, I published news & features in The Sun (Health section), Nursing Times, Nursing Standard.

Education and Training:

PhD (AHRC fully-funded studentship), Newcastle University.

External Examiner Training, Newcastle University.

PG Cert. Research Skills, Newcastle University.

MA Creative Writing, Manchester University.

Postgraduate Certificate in Journalism (PMA/Press Association), London.

BA (Hons) English, Birkbeck, London.

R.N./Dip H.E.

My research interests are in the screenplay as literary text; screenwriting/cinema history and film.

Current Teaching (2025/6)

SEL3403 Screenwriting Portfolio

Previous/Other Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching:

SEL2228 Screenwriting

SEL2228 Creative Practice

SEL1000 Creative Writing

Postgraduate Teaching:

FMS8099 MA Screenwriting Dissertation

FMS8353 MA Screenwriting (Now FMS8707)

PhD Teaching:

HSS8004 Qualitative Methodology in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (Marker)

Teaching Awards:

Nominee: Outstanding Contribution to Teaching

Nominee: Best Supervisor

Conference Organisation

'Breaking Boundaries' PhD/Postgraduate Research Conference: https://nclbreakingboundaries.wordpress.com/

• Articles

  • Goodare L. Filmish Energy: A Textual Analysis of Tony Gilroy's Screenplay Michael Clayton (2006). Journal of Screenwriting 2024, 15(1), 35-58.
  • Goodare L. "I wasn't open to notes": S. Craig Zahler, Dragged Across Concrete (2018) and the 157-page screenplay. Journal of Screenwriting 2022, 13(1).

• Book Chapter

  • Goodare L. 'The Lords of Flatbush (1974): The screenplays, Stallone's additional dialogue and the foundations of stardom'. In: Screen Storytellers: The Works of Sylvester Stallone. 2025. In Press.

• Creative Writing

  • Goodare L. Vaselino: A Short Story. Willesden Herald New Short Stories I 2007.

• Edited Book

  • Goodare L, ed. Screen Storytellers: The Works of Sylvester Stallone. Bloomsbury, 2025. In Press.

• Editorial

  • Goodare L. Previous journalism: news and features. 2004.

• Reviews

  • Goodare L. Writing Women for Film and Television: A Guide to Creating Complex Female Characters (2024) Anna Weinstein. Journal of Screenwriting 2025, 15(Issue Trauma, Screenwriting and Suffering), 325 - 328.
  • Goodare L. John Waters: Pope of Trash, Jenny He and Dara Jaffe (eds) (2023). Journal of Screenwriting 2025, Volume 16(1), 125 - 127.
  • Goodare L. The Screenwriting Life, podcast with Meg Le Fauve and Lorien McKenna. Journal of Screenwriting 2024, 14(2), 207-210.