Hi, I'm Michele Powles

I'm adicted to story. There, I said it and now I can't take it back. I've tried doing other things. Heck I was even a dancer in Bosnia (true story), but I keep coming back to story and getting stuck there. Hooray for books and scripts and cinema. Hooray for characters and twisting them up in knots, taking away their toys, getting them mad and throwing them at each other.

Despite training in law (or perhaps because of it), I’ve been a dancer, producer and writer across the globe, from India to Bosnia, Brazil to Edinburgh. I’m now the mother of two large, loud, boys, who seem equally obsessed with creating new worlds (mostly under their beds). My fiction and non-fiction has been published widely and broadcast for radio both in New Zealand and the UK and I was the 2010 Robert Burns Fellow.

As a screenwriter, my shorts The Sea Inside Her and Growing Still have garnered international awards and I currently have feature films Weathered Bones optioned by Blueskin Films, Put A Baby In Me with Anna Rose Duckworth and Georgina Conder  and Tenderwood with Velvet moss, which won the Best Thriller Screenplay at the 2024 New York Screenplay Awards.

Having been unable to fight the urge to get my hands deeper into the bloody bones of cinema, I am also developing folk horror feature, ​Bite Back Bitch, as writer/director, with AJFilms and Alex Heller-Nicolas. 

​My literary work is currently represented by HighSpot Literary Agents