Megan Bell (she/her) is a writer and aspiring production assistant based in Brighton & Hove. With an award-winning First Class degree in Creative Writing from the University of Brighton, Megan's work explores female identity, queerness and mental health within modernity. She is currently searching for opportunities within the arts & culture sector, and enjoys reading, performing spoken word poetry and attending local music events.

Of the screenplay featured here, Megan states:

‘Throughout the process of writing Womxn, I evolved my understanding of what it meant to exist and belong as a woman myself. We relate to each other’s stories as a community or sisterhood, and I wanted to encapsulate this theme into my work with Ada, Maeve and Rosie’s characters all supporting one another throughout their trials. To portray complex women in a patriarchal society is no longer interesting, yet my characters are written to carry the strength to exist alongside their traumas and reflect the power of women’s solidarity.

At the beginning of this research, I wanted to write a narrative that represented modern women beyond trauma narratives. I have come to realise that perhaps it is naïve to believe that this is possible because all women have grown under a certain “institutions and culture that determine [their] ‘nature’” (Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born (USA: W.W. Norton, 1976)
However, I do believe that my work is a good starting point for intersectional change that explores the identity of women, including women of colour and queer women, who have many more stories to tell beyond their trauma.’