Friday 5 August 2011, 15:05
The writers for the 2012 Writers Academy course have been chosen.
They are:
Christian O'Reilly
Katie Douglas
Emer Kenny
Kenneth Emson
Kirstie Swain
Steph Lloyd Jones
Ben Tagoe
Rosalind O'Shaughnessy
This year we had the strongest shortlist yet, and many of the writers we didn't choose we are hoping to develop using our shadow schemes.
Congratulations to our final eight!
Ceri
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Comment number 1.
Mikey Jackson6th August 2011 - 14:53
Congrats to all eight writers. :)
I'm determined to be part of the magic eight next year.
To be continued... ;)
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Comment number 2.
Paul Ashton19th August 2011 - 11:26
Huge congrats to all 8. You may be interested to know that:
Katie Douglas was a brilliant winner in our 5 Writers For Liverpool competition a few years back and his since done various schemes and consequently written for BBC radio, comedy and CBBC.
Christian O'Reilly came through the Tony Doyle Award and came on a residential development scheme with BBC Northern Ireland Drama with a brilliant idea for a TV series.
Kenny Emson has been getting his scripts noticed here for a while and last year was selected as one of the Writersroom 10 writers working with new writing theatres across the UK.
And Kirsty Swain was part of a small group of writers selected out of a competition/scheme I ran with Ideastap, where she had a lovely idea for a sitcom.
Fantastic to see them all going onwards and upwards here at the BBC.
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