Recent news from my website: Auckland run 🇳🇿 www.nickydenovan.com/news/2026/2/... INK 2026 ✍️ www.nickydenovan.com/news/2026/2/... Cinefest Quarterfinalist 🏆 www.nickydenovan.com/news/2026/2/... Interview for LISP 🗣️ www.nickydenovan.com/news/2026/2/...

Toad gets it.

CINEQUEST Quarter-finalist for my short animation screenplay IN OR OUT 🏆 Chuffed to bits with this - a fantastic festival!🍿 🇺🇸

Amused at the 90s nostalgia podders over-sentimentalising The Word as consummate post-pub entertainment, when everyone of style and taste knew it was, in was, Bob Mills’ In Bed with MeDinner.

“Better Best Forgotten” obvious joke klaxon #totp

“Art is not a competition, but if you’re fortunate enough to progress in a writing prize, that recognition can be the voice that whispers “keep going” – sometimes just when you need to hear it.” LISP interview about my writing process 🖊️ 🔗 www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk/post/nicky-d...

Fly high, Delia Deetz 🖼️ Artwork by Alejandro Mogollo

Whitney Houston - a woman who was at the front of the queue when *everything* was given out #totp

Totally thrilled to be heading back to INK Festival with my newest play BEARING GIFTS 🎁 Thank you to the festival organisers for selecting my work and giving me the opportunity to share a bill with Richard Curtis! 🙌 📍Halesworth, Suffolk 🗓️ 16 — 19 April 2026 🔗 www.inkfestival.org/events/ink-2...

Tim Key - the beating heart and soul of The Ballad of Wallis Island - is snubbed for a BAFTA acting nom.

How has your week started? I just tried to message someone “Looking forward x” and it autocorrected to: “Long coward x”

“Katie Price Is Engaged For The Ninth Time”. Long-awaited follow-up to Cornershop’s 1997 album. #niche

Going to score all the outfits on tonight’s show using my own special points system #thetraitors

Stephen any time anyone gets close to guessing him or Rachel #TheTraitors

Yes, that’s right.

The Brooklyn Beckham Instagram post is extremely sad. Families can be difficult and complex, and money does not insulate you from hurt and trauma. The media needs to withdraw and stop covering this estrangement. It is no-one else’s business.

Haha. “53 years old and still doing it. Unbelievable”. Absolute Partridge. #totp

If you’re going to incorporate rhythmic gymnastics into your stagecraft, at least take your coat off #totp

You could tell everyone you used to be the drummer in Manson. How’s to know? #totp

Contractually obliged B-Side #totp

They should have called this a Dance Rant-Them #morelike #totp

SNL sketch that has dated badly #totp

Whomsoever designed the “peelable” labels for John Lewis wrapping paper appears to have invented a new class of adhesive.

Real-life meme at the make-up and beauty counter

Remember: the truest thing ever observed about New Year’s Eve was from a seasoned bouncer in a documentary on UK nightlife. “The trouble with NYE is that it brings out the amateurs.”

My year in writing ✒️ 🎥 🍿 🎭 Thanks to everyone who has produced and recognised my work this year – it’s hugely appreciated. Wishing you a fabulous New Year, and here’s to your creative success in 2026! 🥂

I never seem to tire of asking “what time is it?” when I clock someone eating an After Eight.

This candle is going to be a hard secret Santa to beat

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

Please stop replying to my sign-off emails with a “quick question”.

I’m really delighted to be a two-time winner of Chesil Theatre’s TakeTen New Writing Festival with my new play Bearing Gifts. 🎁 The theme this year was Angels 😇 🪽 The winning plays will premiere from Feb 27 - Mar 1 2026. Can’t wait to see it on stage! 🎭 🔗 www.chesiltheatre.org.uk/taketen.html

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

A great thrill to have a play in this new book from @playzoomers.bsky.social, published in the US by Armin Lear Press! 📚 🎭 amzn.eu/d/6Sz2d8x

I’ve had Twiglets for breakfast three days on the bounce.

[on the set of Scarface] AL PACINO: say hello to my little friend [opens jacket to reveal a tiny kitten] DIRECTOR: son of a bitch CUT

I’m thrilled to be named one of the winners of Broken Arts Entertainment’s Make Me Laugh contest from 480 global entries! 🎉 My play ARMCHAIR CRITIC will be part of the new audio anthology which records early next year 🎙️ 🎧 brokenartsentertainment.com/the-creative...

Thank you, LISP! 🎉

Delighted to be a finalist for the London Independent Story Prize! My story “Belongings” will be published in their anthology next year 📖📚

Like the heat death of the universe, I am ADVANCING

Some recent cheering news from play/screenwriting corner 🎭 🍿

Drama School, Day 1: This clip. Day 2: Collect diploma.

A moment of high drama in Doctor Who as the Master menaces a cherry bakewell

Nick Cave received an Honorary Degree at the RCA tonight. Permission to have this iconic image modelled as a cake topper, to be brought out for special occasions (also whenever I feel like it).

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

Talking of poetry (*drags meaningfully on a Gauloise and adjusts beret*), here’s one of my favourite Roger McGough poems.

Please enjoy my deeply moving ode to the month of September.

I had a play on in Mexico this week - here’s write-up of The Bravo! Theatre’s 10-Minute Play Festival in The Guadalajara Reporter 🇲🇽 🌵 theguadalajarareporter.net/index.php/ar...

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