Helen Brower

Helen Brower is pursuing her Ph.D. in Fiction. She graduated with a Distinction for her M.A. in Creative Writing from Queen’s University of Belfast. She has been published in the Seamus Heaney Centre’s Blackbird Literary Anthology. Her pilot script was shortlisted for BBC's 2024 Writer's Open Call, the Barnstorm Fest 2023 and a semi-finalist in TSL Free Screenplay Contest in 2023, as well as a finalist for 2025 BBC Belfast Voices. She grew up in Central California on a dairy farm. She wants to create films in genres where there isn’t a lot of female representation at the writing stage. Her stories aim to twist stereotypes of who gets to be the hero. She tries to emulate this in all her writing.