a new regional writing competition
WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
We're delighted to announce that our DREAM UP readers and judging panel have finally finished working their way through the many entries into this regional monologue competition and the winning entries/writers are as follows:
FIRST PRIZE
Everybody Says It, Everybody Knows
By Mahsuda Shah (Leicester)
SECOND PRIZE
Always In The Afternoon
By Cathy Grindrod (Derbyshire)
RUNNERS UP x5
Irena by Monika Johnson (Nottinghamshire)
Flying Billy by Imogen Joyce (Nottingham)
Into The East by Paul Kelly (Leicester)
The Decisive Moment by Linda Kempton (Derbyshire)
My Boy by Laura Lomas (Derby)
We're currently working with winning writers to develop, rehearse and record this vibrant selection of East Midlands dramatic writing for broadcast via www.newperspectives.co.uk during Autumn 2009.
Special thanks to our two independent judges:
Kate Chapman, Theatre Writing Partnership
Leonie Parkin, East Midlands Airport
BACKGROUND
We invited East Midlands-based writers to submit dramatic monologues to a new regional writing competition on the subject of ARRIVALS / DEPARTURES, looking for stories that explore how and why people have entered, traversed, exited,been changed by and left their mark upon the East Midlands.
There were no limits on how writers could respond to this theme - monologues could be contemporary or historical in setting; explore key 'moments' in regional population change or focus on the details of personal stories; be set against a rural or urban backdrop; needn't even be confined to the movements of people, as new roads, commodities, livestock, viruses etc. push their way across the region - the only stipulation was that monologues must be performable by a single actor and have a maximum reading time of 15 minutes.
In addition to cash prizes, some of the winning entries have performed live as part of a DREAM UP showcase event and all will receive professionally acted/directed studio recordings which will then be 'broadcast' on the New Perspectives website.
PRIZES
First: £1000 / Second: £500 / Runners Up: 5 x £100
TIMETABLE
Closing Date: 31 March 2009
Winners Announced: 1 May 2009
Studio Recordings: June 2009
Performance/Broadcast: September 2009
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Competition Rules (pdf)
Entry Form (word)
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