WRITING
Sophie Clarkin is represented by Megan Carroll at Watson, Little Ltd.
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Sophie graduated with a B.A. in Creative Writing & Literature from Wheaton College in 2023. She received honors for her creative senior thesis, won the Helen Meyers Tate Memorial Prize for Original Verse, and even placed as a finalist in the RWA’s Unpublished Contemporary Romance awards. Her works have been published in the literary magazine Rushlight and on the Hey! Young Writer website. As a self-proclaimed romance fiend, Sophie writes contemporary romance with a dash of comedy that mixes swoonworthy love stories with her personal experiences as a plus-size woman navigating mental health, college and post-grad life, and relationships with family and friends.​
Photo credit: Sonia Targontsidis
NOVELS
Neighboring college seniors embark on a breakup bucket list in hopes of getting over their respective exes before graduation but reignite old feelings for each other instead. Inspired by my recent experience living in co-ed college dorms, CONNECTED SINGLES is perfect for fans of the friends-to-lovers dual timeline in PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry and MR. WRONG NUMBER by Lynn Painter's humorous dialogue between enemies-to-lovers in forced proximity.
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ON SUB SOON.
Happy Together
Temporarily moving back home to care for her mother with dementia, Alice buys a magical house that she has to renovate with her childhood nemesis-slash-new-roommate if she ever wants to leave her wretched hometown and take care of her mom. Fans of THE CO-OP by Tarah Dewitt, THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP by Ashley Poston, and HERBIE: FULLY LOADED will love HAPPY TOGETHER.
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WORK IN PROGRESS.
POETRY
A woman constantly overlooked by a man who intentionally keeps her on the back burner.
Being drawn to someone time and time again, despite the pain it leaves in its wake.
The confusion of navigating a relationship that never quite begins.
A woman compares herself to a statue.
SCREENPLAYS
The day after she gives a non-committal answer to her boyfriend HENRY (late 20s)’s proposal, BEA (late 20s) wakes up beside him to the last call she’ll ever receive from her grandmother – or so she thinks. Bea relives this day that her grandmother dies and must choose whether to stay in the time loop to keep her grandmother alive in her reality, or break the cycle to start a new life with Henry while still mourning her grandmother’s death.
MASON (20) and TYLER (21) flirt at a party while, unbeknownst to them, their inner bodily functions control said interaction in an office setting.
As ANNIE (21) drinks alone, she thinks about a situationship that she had with JAMES (21). While she questions the not-so-relationship through drunken reminiscing, she imagines a world in which she and James had a full, start-middle-end romance.
A lawless shitshow of a summer camp hires a new college student who attempts to do her job well. However, her co-counselor sways her into the ways of the camp.
HONORS THESIS
Analyses of different poems and screenplays that articulate my own personal writing's idea of the “middle” – an ambiguous, ever-present feeling of floating between the start and end of something – and acknowledge how my writing utilizes the structural intertwining of the poetry and screenwriting genres to best exemplify longing’s prolonged closure.