Seonaid Macdonald

Inverness-based Seonaid started her career as a broadcast journalist and soon realised she was more adept at creating fiction than reporting hard facts. After doing a course in writing for radio drama , she continued to script-write for radio and television and theatre. In 2008 she wrote and directed her first short film “Oidhche Shathairne” for the inaugural FilmG Awards and was delighted to win Best Film and to be shortlisted for a New Entrant Bafta. After making a second film “An Seoladh” in 2009, Seonaid won an MGAlba scholarship enabling her to do an MA in Television Fiction Writing at Glasgow Caledonian University in collaboration with Shed Productions. She is currently working on two novel commissions and works in mental health