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Here is the pick of writing opportunities and events open this week.
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Creating Content for Kids Television
ScreenSkills is running the next in its series of workshops on ‘Developing Content for Kids’ next Wednesday (February 3) between 10am and 11.30am. These sessions cover pitching and developing content for children’s TV. It is aimed at creators, writers and producers. Further details about these free events are available here.
Marketing Tips for Running Workshops
Writer and Communications expert Francesca Baker is running a workshop focused for writers on how to market workshops. It is aimed at those running writing workshops, poetry sessions, expressive arts series or something entirely new, with the aim of helping to reach audiences and sell tickets. The next event is on Friday, February 5 from 10am-11am. Book a ticket here.
Essay Writing Prize
The 2021 Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & Lewitt Studios Essay Prize is now open to submissions until March 5, 2021. The annual competition is aimed at unpublished writers resident in the UK & Ireland who have yet to secure a publishing deal. The prize awards £3,000 to the best proposal for a book-length essay (minimum 25,000 words), as well as the opportunity to spend up to three months in residency at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy, to work on their book. The book will then be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Further information is available here.
Emerging Writers’ Programme
The London Library Emerging Writers Programme offers writers, in all genres, one year’s free membership of The London Library and includes writing development masterclasses, literary networking opportunities, peer support and guidance in use of the Library’s resources. Open to anyone over 16 years of age resident in the UK, who is committed to pursuing a career in writing in any genre and wants to develop their practice. The Programme will run from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The deadline for applications in March 5 at 11am. Find out more here.
Writing for Children’s Animation
ScreenSkills is holding a panel session on ‘Writing for Children's Animation’ on March 16 at 6pm. Chaired by writer Myles McLeod, it is an opportunity to hear from a range of professionals involved in the making of an animated series for children on how they work with writers and what they need from a writer. The panel will include a storyboard artist, director, producer and broadcast commissioner. Bookings are now open via their website.
TV Crime Fiction Contest
The DETECt Screenwriting Contest, part of an EU-funded research project on European crime narratives, is looking for original TV crime fiction that will be evaluated by an international jury of industry professionals. Further details are available here. The deadline for submissions is March 1.
Still open for submissions…
Documentary Call
Netflix has launched a Documentary Talent Fund open to anyone across the UK and will give ten filmmakers, and their teams, the chance to make a short documentary film with a budget of between £20,000 and £40,000 each. Each documentary must be between 8-12 minutes long and the brief for these fully funded short documentaries is Britain’s Not Boring And Here’s A Story. The submission window is now open and lasts until January 31. Further information is available here.
Call for One-Act Plays
Windsor Fringe Festival is asking amateur playwrights worldwide to submit unpublished one-act plays for the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing. Three winning scripts will be selected for fully staged performances during October 2021. One of the three scripts will be chosen for the £500 prize, judged purely on the writing. The deadline for submissions is March 5. Further details are available here.
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