Script Report and Coverage Awareness Week (SCRAW) is a five day social media campaign promoting the usefulness of good qualified script report / coverage / feedback to new scriptwriters starting out.
SCRAW 2026 runs from Monday 23 Feb 2026 to Friday 27 of Feb 2026 and the campaign is organised by Matthew Cooper – who is a scriptwriter and script consultant – with credits as a scriptwriter on shows like EastEnders / Emmerdale and Hollyoaks – Matthew is BAFTA shortlisted and Royal Television Society Nominated as a scriptwriter with his first credit as scriptwriter on CH4 in 1994 (a short film starring a then unknown Ewan McGregor). Matthew was the youngest ever scriptwriter on the Emmerdale writing team (at age 27) On EastEnders he wrote the episode where ‘Alfie’ told ‘Kat’ he loved her for the fist time back in 2002 – 17 million viewers on that episode.
Matthew has sold screenplays to US majors – and was the winner of the first ever Lloyds Bank Ch4 Film Challenge and the first ever Oscar Moore Screenplay Award.
SCRAW 2026 – will feature a new blogpost each day given new writers info on what good script reports and coverage offer them – as well as some free screenwriting lessons through out the week.
If you’re a new writer and you’re interest in getting good value qualified and detailed script feedback – contact Mat on – matcoop23@yahoo.co.uk – use the same email address to get in touch with any question about SCRAW 2026 (and Matthew will personally try to answer any scriptwriting questions).
Please check out the videos below – and we’ll list each blogpost in the SCRAW series on these page below.
BLOGPOST NUMBER 1: – WHY SCRAW? AND WHY GETTING GREAT SCRIPT REPORTS OR SCRIPT COVERAGE IS SO IMPORTANT TO NEW SCRIPTWRITERS
BLOGPOST NUMBER 2: Script Lessons from Jimmy McGovern and how to spot ‘on the nose’ dialogue…Script Coverage and Report Awareness week (SCRAW 2026) – SCRAW BLOGPOST 2 – Script Lessons from Jimmy McGovern and how to spot ‘on the nose’ dialogue… – Script writer for hire and UK script consultant
BLOGPOST NUMBER 3: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SHOW AND TELL – explained in less than 15 mins Script coverage and report awareness week SCRAW 2026 – SCRAW BLOGPOST 3 – the difference between SHOW AND TELL for scriptwriters – Script writer for hire and UK script consultant
BLOGPOST NUMBER 4: The difference between a script written by the scriptwriter and a shooting script…
SCRIPT FORMATTING AND SCRIPT WRITING STYLE – why sparse scripts and blank space are you friend. Script coverage and report awareness week SCRAW 2026: BLOGPOST FOUR – SCRIPT FORMATTING AND SCRIPT WRITING STYLE – why sparse scripts and blank space are you friend. – Script writer for hire and UK script consultant
BLOGPOST NUMBER 5: The business aspects of scriptwriting Script Coverage and Report Awareness Week SCRAW 2026 – SCRAW BLOGPOST FIVE – The business of scriptwriting in the UK… – Script writer for hire and UK script consultant
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