BBC Playwriting competition
The BBC World Service and the British Council have invited entries for their 12th biennial international radio playwriting competition.
The competition open to only people outside Britain is in two categories. The first is for writers who use English as their first language while the other is for writers with English as their second language.
Winner of the first prize in each category will get £2,500 and a trip to London to see the play being recorded for broadcast on the BBC World Service.
American, Erin Browne, and Ghanaian, Efo Kodjo Mawugbe, won the 2010 edition of the competition with ‘Trying’ and ‘The Prison Graduates’ respectively. Browne’s ‘Trying’ is about sisters, Lena and Chels, who are awaiting the arrival of Chels’ baby before Lena falls in love with the girl in the bookshop.
Mawugbe’s ‘The Prison Graduates’ is about four ex-prisoners trying to start again after serving term. They explore different options but opted for a somewhat surprising one.
Those interested in the competition are required to write a 60-minute radio drama for up to six characters in English. Entries must be unpublished and should not have been previously produced in any medium.
Organisers say novel adaptations are not eligible. The competition which opened on October 16 will close on March 31, 2011.
Entries complete with a 400-word synopsis must get to London by the midnight of March 31 and can be submitted either by post or email. Entries by post should be sent to Room 823B, South East Wing, BBC Bush House, Strand, London WC2B 4 PH while they can also be mailed to radioplay@bbc.co.uk.
Manuscripts for submission must be a minimum of 50 pages of A4 paper and a maximum of 75 pages.
More information about the competition can be found on the BBC World service website.
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