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BBC Writersroom's Voices 2022 - Scottish Voices
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Scottish Voices 2022
Today we're announcing the names of the 12 writers who were part of our Scottish Voices development group for 2022. In total 69 writers were part of our Voices groups this year and we're delighted to be announcing them all this week.
"BBC Writersroom Scotland are incredibly excited to announce the 12 Scottish Voices we’ve been working with over the past few months. It’s been a real pleasure getting to know this lovely bunch, and we have loved helping each one hone their craft and work towards an authored TV idea that showcases their unique voice. Watch this space, Scotland!"
Stephanie Fyfe (Assistant Commissioner for Scotland, BBC Writersroom and BBC Drama)
Tiarna Armstrong
Tiarna Armstrong is a 25-year…
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BBC Writersroom's Voices 2022 - Northern Voices
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All this week we're announcing the 69 talented emerging writers from across the UK who have taken part in our Voices development programme for 2022. Today it's the turn of the 14 Northern Voices.
"We’re delighted to announce the 14 writers we’ve been working with from across the North of England, over the past few months. We’ve really enjoyed getting to know this talented group of writers and helping them to develop TV Treatments that showcase their authentic and original voice. The Voices Programmes has enabled the writers to develop their craft and allowed them the time, support and creative space to work on ideas they’re burning to write about. It’s been so great to see their creative growth and we’re excited to see what they do next!"
Usman Mullan (Development Producer, BBC Writersroom North)
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BBC Writersroom's Voices 2022 - London Voices
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All this week we're announcing the 69 talented emerging writers from across the UK who have taken part in our Voices development programme for 2022. Today it's the turn of the 13 London Voices.
"We’re so pleased to introduce these super talented, passionate writers from London, who we’ve had the pleasure of working with over the last few months. They all delivered brilliant treatments with a diversity of fresh ideas and subject matter across the board. We’re excited to see all the great things they’ll do next!"
Zahra Al-Sultani (Development Producer, BBC Writersroom London)
Meet them and find out more about them below.
Florence Bell
Florence Bell
Alongside acting (‘Wolf Hall’, ‘The End of the…
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BBC Writersroom's Voices 2022 - Belfast Voices
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It’s an immense pleasure to introduce you to our incredible Voices 2022 cohort. This year we have worked with 69 talented emerging writers from across the UK as they hone their craft skills and industry knowledge and apply their learning and creativity to the creation of treatment documents for new and original series ideas.
Between March and June this year the writers have participated in a…
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Element Pictures NI Writers Award - Winner Announced
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We are delighted to announce Matthew McDevitt as the winner of the Element Pictures NI Writers Award. Matthew will now be given a paid commission to develop his treatment idea into a pilot script.
Matthew’s idea was selected from an extremely competitive shortlist of four writers/writing partnerships who received a paid treatment commission to develop an original series idea with Element Pictures.
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Lady Shorts
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Four fresh, funny, female-led shorts from some of Northern Ireland’s newest writing talent. Simon Nelson, Development Exec for BBC Writersroom, explains how Lady Shorts were produced.
Today sees the launch on BBC iPlayer of Lady Shorts, four comedy short films written by some of Northern Ireland’s most exciting up-and-coming women writers – Diona Doherty, Sarah Gordon, Susannah McKenna and Emma Moran. Several of the writers had previously been members of our Belfast Voices and Comedy Room writer development groups and Sarah has gone onto a place in our current Drama Room Group, and it is…
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The Popcorn Writing Award at the Edinburgh Fringe
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Popcorn Group set up the Popcorn Writing Award in 2019 as the first award of its kind at the Edinburgh Fringe which solely celebrates the writer. We wanted to champion new writing at the fringe with the writing at the heart. The award includes a prize fund which provides the writer with financial space and time to write their next piece of work so that they’re able to build on the success of their last.
This year we are partnering with BBC Writersroom for the first time and as part of that collaboration, BBC Writersroom have generously agreed to every shortlisted applicant getting a…
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Our Open Call - An Update from a Reader
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We recently sent out the decisions from our latest Open Call opportunity. Everyone who entered a script should now have heard back. We spoke to one of the newest members of our freelance Script Reading team to get their impressions on the process as it draws to a close.
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As one of the new additions to the reading team at BBC Writersroom, I’ve had the pleasure of spending a couple of months of the…
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Sherwood
James Graham
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Inspired in part by real events and set in the Nottinghamshire mining village where writer James Graham grew up, at the heart of Sherwood lie two shocking and unexpected killings that shatter an already fractured community and spark a massive manhunt. As suspicion and antipathy build - both between lifelong neighbours and towards the police forces who descend on the town - the tragic killings threaten to inflame historic divisions sparked during the miners' strike three decades before.
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Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton
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Writer Dolly Alderton and director China Moo-Young are our guests on our next Ask the Write Questions podcast recording 9th June. What would you like to ask them? Email us at writersroom@bbc.co.uk or add your questions in the blog comments below.
Created and adapted for television by Dolly Alderton and inspired by her own wildly funny, occasionally heart-breaking, internationally bestselling memoir of the same name, Everything I Know About Love will give an unflinching account of surviving your 20s.
The central love story of Everything I Know About Love is between childhood best friends…
