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Monthly archive - September 2015

C21 Drama Series Script Competition

Information

Closing date: 
16 October 2015
Entry: 
Open to all
Prize: 
£10,000 of development funding, time in a writers’ room on a current series and assistance in taking their drama project to series

C21 Media has announced a Drama Series Script Competition, produced in association with leading independent studio Entertainment One and Creative England through their recently launched venture, designed to find the next big thing in international drama.  Read more

I'd like to be the Puccini of fiction.

5 October 2015

‘Just because a book is classified by that dreaded term "women's commercial fiction" doesn't mean that it can't take a look at societal issues or address things which are going on in the world, whether it's extremes in wealth or opportunity, or what happens when you're working for a company that puts you on a zero hours contract.  Read more

'If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.'

— Haruki Murakami

21 September 2015 - What's new

September 2015
  • 'In an unusual move, the UK children's publisher Chicken House and US publisher Little Brown Young Readers have parted company with bestselling children's author Cornelia Funke, who both have published right from the beginning of her writing career.
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Bestselling children's author leaves publishers to publish her own work

21 September 2015

In an unusual move, the UK children's publisher Chicken House and US publisher Little Brown Young Readers have both parted company with bestselling children's author Cornelia Funke, who both have published right from the beginning of her writing career. What's unusual about the split is that it's not about money, or more promotion, but about differences relating to editorial advice.  Read more