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In 100 voices – climate change monologue call out
Scriptwriting competition, theme: ‘climate change’. Scratch Theatre want monologues of max length 150 seconds for ‘In 100 Voices’ theatre event. Deadline 27 October 2025.
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Script writing competition 2025
The 2025 biennial TakeTen Chesil Theatre New Writing Competition is open for entries, with a theme of Angels.
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Poetry Prize win
Delighted to share that I’ve won a poetry prize, under my pen name Bassi Meri. It’s for the 2025 International Women’s Day, and I’ll be reading my poem at Swindon Central Library. Here’s more info about the day – lots of stuff going on arranged by Swindon culture organisations and Shouting Softly Swindon who ran…
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Writers’ Day at Salisbury Literary Festival
As we approach the second run of literature festivals, I’m thinking of the different kinds of festival within easy travel of Marlborough. Swindon (okay, it’s in May), focuses on ideas and has a lot of intellectual non-fiction catering to a city-sized town (and county) missing undergraduate education. Cheltenham (October) has grown into a mega book…
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Competitions and submissions
Budding writers! Just six days to go to enter Poetry Swindon‘s BATTERED MOONS POETRY COMPETITION and submit to DOMESTIC CHERRY magazine. Battered Moons only costs £5 to enter per poem, and has a top prize of £700. Domestic Cherry invites submissions of Poetry, Flash Fiction, Playlets, Shopping Lists, Inner Leg Measurements, First Borns and Bribes!…
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