Bev Irwin is an award-winning author and screenwriter of thriller, suspense, and adventure novels for adults, young adults, and middle grades. Her medical thriller, WITHOUT CONSENT, was blurbed by Lee Child and Michael Palmer. She has adapted some of her novels to screenplays and is working on a Christmas romance.
Her paranormal YA, GHOSTLY JUSTICE, is being adapted as a television series. Nancy Drew for the younger crowd, a teen with psychic abilities, a ghost wanting revenge for her murder, but no sex.
Bev lives in a small village outside of London, Ontario with a Golden Retriever look-a-like and a persnickety Maine Coon cat. As a retired nurse she likes to add a touch of medical to her writing. She enjoys crafting evil villains.
MISSING CLAYTON
Finalist, Honorable Mention So Cal Screenplay Competition - The Southern California Screenplay Competition 2021
Top 100 (Feature or TV Pilot), Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenplay Competition Austin 2021
Quarterfinalist, Industrial Scripts - The TITAN Awards 2021
Quarterfinalist, Inroads Fellowship (Season 5)
Semifinalist, Forest City Film Festival 2021
Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters - Genre Screenplay Competition 2020
Semifinalist, Forest City Film Festival 2019
Semifinalist, Table Read My Screenplay - Park City 2019
Semifinalist, Table Read My Screenplay - Park City 2018
IN HIS FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS
Semifinalist, So Cal Screenplay Competition - The Southern California Screenplay Competition 2021
Top 100 (Feature or TV Pilot), Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenplay Competition Austin 2021
Unique traits: I am a retired nurse and like to add a medical edge, psychological or physical, to my writing.
TAKEN Mystery ⋄ Family An off the grid fourteen year old struggling with his mother's deteriorating mental status walks away from his Missing Child photo.
EMMA'S CHRISTMAS MIRACLE Romance ⋄ Family When a pediatrician returns to her home town to help her father over Christmas she wins the heart of a crippled child but can she make the father love Christmas again.
WINNIE'S CAPE Animation When a tween witch taking her yearly bath has her new cape stolen she must chose the importance of possessions over making a friend.
THE WORN BEAR Historical ⋄ Adventure A Jewish teenager’s dream of getting the Elgin 4 Star Deluxe bicycle is shattered when Hitler bombs Amsterdam. As the persecution threatens him and his family’s lives the Resistance arranges a risky escape. Will the Nazis find the jewels he’s hidden in his sister’s stuffed bear or will they be caught before reaching Switzerland?
BUMBLES THE BEAR Animation Curiosity and hunger creates havoc for a small bakery when a young bear wanders off the park grounds.
WITHOUT CONSENT Thriller A recently jilted ER doctor finds the first victim of serial killer excising women’s kidneys and risks her life to aid the police before she becomes his next victim.
MISSING CLAYTON Thriller ⋄ Mystery An introverted single mother risks her life to find her kidnapped five-year-old son when the police fail and she can no longer trust those closest to her.
IN HIS FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS Family ⋄ Adventure A rebellious fourteen-year-old struggles to survive in Northern Ontario in his quest to find his missing father.
GHOSTLY JUSTICE Other ⋄ Mystery A fifteen-year-old doesn’t want to read people’s minds, or see ghosts, and she definitely doesn’t want to help solve a forty-year-old murder.
MISSING CLAYTON Finalist, Honorable Mention So Cal Screenplay Competition - The Southern California
(2021)
Top 100 (Feature or TV Pilot), Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenplay Competition Austin 2021
(2021)
Quarterfinalist, Industrial Scripts - The TITAN Awards 2021
(2021)
Quarterfinalist, Inroads Fellowship (Season 5)
(2021)
Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters - Genre Screenplay Competition 2020
(2021)
Semifinalist, Forest City Film Festival 2019
(2019)
Semifinalist, Table Read My Screenplay - Park City 2019
(2019)
Semifinalist, Table Read My Screenplay - Park City 2018
(2018)
IN HIAS FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS Top 100 (Feature or TV Pilot), Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenpla
Semifinalist, So Cal Screenplay Competition - The Southern California Screenplay Competition 2021