Clare Atkins is a writer, script editor, script producer and development executive with over twenty years’ experience.

She has written for comedy and drama including White Fever, All Saints, Wonderland and Winners & Losers. She is currently script editor on a project for Bunya Productions, co-creator on a series based on a young adult novel for Flying Bark. She has also written two episodes of the preschool animation series Flour and Flower for Cheeky Little and the ABC which is currently in production. She is also developing her own projects, script editing feature films, and script producing a multi-writer feature film.

As Development Executive for the ABC she supported the story and script development of shows including Stateless, Fires, Significant Others, House of Gods, Diary of an Uber Driver, Content and Here Out West.

She consulted on award-winning podcasts The Eleventh and Snowball.

Clare is the author of award-winning young adult novels, Nona & Me and Between Us, and picture book, Egg. 

As a Vietnamese Australian, Clare is passionate about authentic diverse storytelling, having worked as a script producer for ABC International in Papua New Guinea, and writer-mentor for Matchbox’s The Heights and multiple media groups. She was on the committee which developed the ABC’s Diversity and Inclusion Commissioning Guidelines and worked with Co-Curious as a Story Producer to develop new screen content with diverse and underrepresented creatives, running projects such as Stories From Another Australia – Victoria.