Rachael S. Morgan

Rachael S. Morgan is an award-winning Australian fiction writer as well as a screenwriter, script editor and screenwriting teacher. She holds a university degree in Creative Writing and Film Studies, and has more than fifteen years' experience as a writer, entertainment journalist, arts & entertainment publicist. Rachael's film and television credits include 'Wanted' for Network Seven and Matchbox Pictures, starring Rebecca Gibney; 'Mako Mermaids' (Storyliner) for Network TEN, Netflix, and Disney; and Network TEN's reality show, 'The Bachelor' (as Associate Producer - Casting). She was engaged as Script Editor on Essential Media's YA television series, 'The Timeshifters', after being involved with extensive story workshops/writers rooms. She also spent much of 2015 assisting Matchbox Pictures (QLD) with their television development slate. Rachael is currently developing half-hour dramedy TV series, 'Disgraceful', with the support of Screen Queensland. In 2015, Rachael wrote and produced the award-winning short film, 'The Day After Today' and now, under the umbrella of Zero Fox Productions, has numerous other projects at various stages of development. These include rom-com feature, 'The Scoop'; indie-drama, 'Until September ' (which is being developed collaboratively with director, Mairi Cameron); YA television series 'Paperbark Crossing'; and dramedies 'The Bright Side', and 'BUNK', among others. In addition, Rachael's feature film script, 'Preservation', was recently awarded an Honourable Mention at the Los Angeles Film & Script Festival. She is in demand as a Script Assessor and Editor and taught screenwriting for several years at New York Film Academy, Australia in the areas of Writing for Television, Feature Writing, Story Generation, and Genre Studies. Her areas of expertise are in structure, plotting, story-lining and story development. As a prose writer, Rachael was awarded the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize in 2011 for her short story, 'Tryst', as well as the Griffith Review Emerging Writers Prize and a residency at Varuna - The Writers House in the same year. Rachael's work has been published in literary journals and national magazines in Australia. She is currently represented by Anjanette Fennell of Story as Life Literary. Rachael is passionate about storytelling, taking her philosophy from writer, Anais Nin - 'We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." She is committed to creating powerful (and often hilarious) stories for and about women and is allergic to the phrase 'strong female character' - give her messy, flawed, and funny any day!