Felixstowe Scribblers 2021: On the Beeb...

Wednesday 30 July 2014

On the Beeb...




	Scriptroom 8 (Stage Plays) & The Writer's Prize for Radio We are delighted to announce that we will soon be opening for submissions for Scriptroom 8 (stage plays – comedy & drama) and this year’s Writer's Prize, for which we are looking for original, surprising multi-character narrative drama scripts of 45-75 minutes in length for Radio 3 or 4 (not monologues or adaptations). The submission windows for both opportunities will open on 15th September and close on Monday 29th September and submission links will be available via the opportunities page on our website when we open. Find out more about the finalists from last year's Writer's Prize on our blog Read a blog by Sarah Hehir, whose script Bang Up was one of the previous winners and subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Rock Me Amadeus by Simon Topping was broadcast as part of Radio 4's Original British Dramatists.Read a blog about Original British Dramatists and watch an interview with Simon. Read the script of 'Rock Me Amadeus'


			Craic Off! We have recently announced two exciting new opportunities for writers in Northern Ireland and Wales. Craic Off! is on the hunt for new comedy gold in Northern Ireland. Script submissions will be open between 15th and 30th September 2014. Find out more about Craic Off! including the full terms and conditions of entry.

Award

The second biennial Wales

Drama Award in partnership

withNational Theatre Wales

and BBC Cymru Wales is

open between 22nd

September and 7th October

2014 for scripts in any medium

by writers resident in Wales.

There is a £10,000 prize and

two runners-up prizes of £1000.

Find out more about the Wales

Drama Award including the full

terms and conditions of entry.

There are still places available

for free workshops on

Thursday 31st July and Friday

1st August in Cardiff and

Wrexham.

Sign-up for tickets now

The inaugural Wales Drama

award in 2012 was won by

Katherine Chandler, who has

subsequently gone-on to write

Tag, an Original Drama Short

for BBC iPlayer.

Watch the Original Drama

Shorts

on Storify

The fifth annual TV Drama

Writers' Festival took place

on 2nd July at Central St

Martin's vibrant new campus

in London's emerging King's

Cross district.

This year the festival was

chaired by Tony Jordan,

with a stellar line-up including

Jed Mercurio, Peter Moffat,

Simon Ashdown, Abi

Morgan, Levi David Addai,

Danny Brocklehurst, Barbara

Machin, Adam Curtis, Peter

Bowker, and Sarah Phelps.

The theme was 'If Content is

King, Where's Our Crown ...?'.

See a storify of the whole day's

events including details of the

sessions, photos and packed

with hints and tips


			Recent blogs Catch up with some recent posts on the BBC writersroom blog Read a Q&A with Hugo Blick, writer, director and producer of The Honourable Woman on BBC Two. Read a Q&A with David Greig, whose play The Events (inspired by the Anders Breivik shootings) was The Guardian's No. 1 in the best theatre of 2013 and recently broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Lolita Chakrabarti blogs about her award-winning play Red Velvet which rediscovered Ira Aldridge, the first black actor of note to play Othello in the 1830s. Steve Stamp, the writer of People Just Do Nothing blogs about the journey from Youtube to a full series on BBC Three. And Sally Stott attempts to answer the question 'How seriously should you take scriptwriting books?'

The Jack Wilkinson Competition for stories about children for an adult reader, is open for entries until 1st June. Stories should be emailed in the usual way to Georgina, making clear that it is a competition entry. Your entries can be in any genre of writing and should be no more than a maximum of 1,500words. Once all entries have been received, they will all be posted on the Repository. Members will have a week to read and choose their favourite three stories. Please do not vote for your own story. Your top three choices should be emailed to Georgina stating 1st, 2nd, 3rd and the corresponding story titles. Please don’t make any comments below the stories until the outcome has been announced. All stories will be published anonymously, with only a story title and a corresponding letter of the alphabet. Once all votes are in (and scores have been double checked) the winning entries will be announced. As we are unable to present the trophy due to the existing situation, an e-certificate will be awarded to the winner. The more entries, the better, so get those scribbling sticks out! Please email all contributions to Georgina Dave

CORONAVIRUS

Due to the outbreak of Coronavirus, Felixstowe Scribblers have sadly cancelled all future meetings until such time as Government advice and restrictions are lifted.

This means a great upheaval to many of our writers, but we will do our best to keep you updated both on this weblog and by email.

We intend to maintain our writing with 500-750 word assignments that may be posted on here for a short period of time whilst our WhatsApp group will have regular 100-200 word exercises to help keep our creative minds working.

Further information will be released as soon as possible.

30 March 2020

Gipping Press

Felixstowe Scribblers chose Gipping Press to publish their 2014, 2017 and 2019 anthologies. Our reasoning was based on their enthusiastic help, great track record and, more than anything else, the quality and high standard of their work. Our anthologies are testament to their expertise.

We anticipate another anthology in 2021 and will be seeking the help once again, of Gipping Press.

We can honestly recommend Gipping Press to anyone seeking advice in publication and for their very competitive prices.

Thank you Gipping Press.

http://www.gippingpress.co.uk/GPselfpublshing.html

Where we meet

Felixstowe Scribblers meet on the first and third Tuesday of each month in The Room at the Top in Felixstowe Library, Crescent Road. Meetings start at 7.30pm and end at 10.00pm.

Details of the library are on their website at https://www.suffolklibraries.co.uk/libraries/felixstowe-library/.

Felixstowe Scribblers are indebted to the Library and its helpful staff for all their valuable assistance.

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, our annual membership fees have been reduced from £30 to £15 for the coming year until November 2021.

Meetings, when they are able to be organised again will allow people preferring to pay at each meeting a charge of £5.

Our writing programmes are available via our two avenues, The Repository and our WhatsApp group.

Membership is open to both published and hobby writers and whilst there are no age limits it is wise to be aware that there may be adult content included in some work.

For more information about Felixstowe Scribblers simply email our Secretary catherine.stafford1@ntlworld.com or our Chairman, Dave, at scribblers.1@btinternet.com.

Committee Members:

Hon President: Ruth Dugdall.

Chairman: Dave Feakes.

Secretary: Cathy Stafford.

Treasurer: Beryl Sabel.

Scribblers Repository Editor: Georgina Salmon.

Weblog Co-ordinator: to be arranged.

Anthology sub committee:

Beryl Sabel,

Georgina Salmon,

Dave Feakes.

WhatsApp administrator:

Justin Keogh

In Memory

Martin Enticknap One time member of the Scribblers who stayed in touch from his home on Sanday in the Orklands. 2003.

Nobby Clarke A keen sailor, he relayed many amusing tales from his past life. Died tragically in a road traffic accident in 2004.

Bill Budner A lay preacher who joined the Scribblers and provided so many prolific words in his short stories. 2006.

Jack Wilkinson Our youngest member for four years, he provided so much laughter and talented creativity before losing his life to cancer at the tender age of twelve. 2006.

Allen Williams Our Welsh wizard had a wonderful wit that kept the group in fits of laughter. 2007.

John Crowson At 97, our most senior member. He passed just a week before he was published for the very first time in the 2010 Felixstowe Scribblers Anthology. 2009.

Doreen Rayner Published and very knowledgeable Felixstowe historian and former member of the Scribblers. 2012

Les Smith Such a welcoming and endearing character, his laughter, matched with his personality and his humorous writing leaves the Scribblers much poorer for his loss. 2015

Mairead Reidy Such a warm hearted and generous person who was both extremely talented and knowledgeable. Liked and loved by all. Another very sad loss to our creative group. 2018

Dick Bradshaw A warm and friendly long term member. A wonderful and published writer with a wealth of knowledge and so many humorous tales. A very sad loss of a good friend. 2018

It is fitting that we also remember Liam Fairhurst of Soham who died of cancer in 2009. He raised enormous sums of money for charity all beginning in memory of his friend and ours, Jack Wilkinson.

Maurice James, the creator of the Coast to Coast competitions and a great friend to the Scribblers. 2010