Here are some interesting opportunities currently available for all writers and open for you to get involved in.
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Creating Content for Kids Television
ScreenSkills is running a series of workshops on ‘Developing Content for Kids’ from January 27, between 10am and 11.30am. The sessions will 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.
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.
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Windsor Fringe Festival is asking amateur playwrights worldwide to submit unpublished one-act plays for the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing.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.
Meet the Publisher Event
The Society of Authors is hosting a Meet the Publisher event with HarperNorth on Tuesday, January 26, from 3.30pm-5pm. Genevieve Pegg, Publishing Director, and Alice Murphy-Pyle, Head of Marketing from HarperNorth, will talk to about what makes a good submission, how they work with authors, and what they’re most excited about for 2021. HarperNorth is a new Manchester-based outpost of HarperCollins. Their submission window will reopen from Friday (January 15). Book a place here.
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.
Fiction Podcasts Competition
Shore Scripts is seeking submissions for its 2020 Fiction Podcast Contest. Open until January 21, further information about the competition – as well as how to adapt a script for another format for a podcast, visit their website.
TV Writers Awards
The TV Foundation, in association with the Edinburgh TV Festival, is calling for emerging and established writers to enter its 2021 New Voice Awards. Information about the categories, which also includes producers, directors, presenters, (as well as companies and agencies), can be found here. The deadlines for applications for all categories is January 25.
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