Online Radio Play/Series Writing Competition from Green Stories
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
Green Stories writing competition is now available for creative writers all over the world who want to participate in the Radio play/series competition. Green Stories is looking for a radio play or series that inspires green behaviours/policies/practices. All genres are considered – comedy, drama, romance, science fiction, mystery, crime etc. – but stories must engage with the idea of environmentally sustainable practices and/or sustainable societies.
About the Competition:-
- Green Stories writing competitions are a series of free writing competitions across various formats to solicit stories that showcase what a sustainable society might look like.
- Just as some books/films produce place products, Green Stories aims to ‘product place’ sustainable attitudes, behaviours, products and policies.
- The story doesn’t have to be specifically about climate change or catastrophic shortages, it can be any kind of genre – rom com, crime drama, legal drama, children’s book, sci fi etc. as long as it showcases sustainable technologies, practices, products or ideas in the background.
Benefits
- Free script appraisal and treatment by the Literary Consultancy.
- Opportunities for finalists: BBC Writers room have agreed to look at the top five scripts and follow up with any writers they think have promise. In addition, Whistledown Productions produce programmes for radio and have agreed to look at the top entries.
Eligibility criteria
- This competition is open to all and free to enter.
- All submissions must be in English and conform to the green stories criteria of showing a positive vision of what a sustainable society might look like or in some way smuggling in green solutions/policies/characters in the context of an otherwise mainstream story.
- There are two key priorities in the submitted works:
- Story telling ability – the story should be engaging.
- Incorporate green solutions e.g. by
- Showcasing what a green/sustainable society might look like and/or how we might get there.
- Smuggling green solutions into a story aimed at mainstream readers – this can be quite subtle.
- Using positive role models
About Green Stories:-
Green Stories writing competitions are a series of free writing competitions across various formats to solicit stories that showcase what a sustainable society might look like. Open to all. Entries must be in English and unpublished. The competitions are organised by the University of Southampton. Green Stories Competitions’ mission is to create a cultural body of work that entertains and informs about green solutions, inspires green behaviour and raises awareness of the necessary transformations towards a sustainable economy.
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