BEN MUSGRAVE...on winning the inaugural Bruntwood Prize in 2007 for his play Pretend You Have Big Buildings How has winning the first Bruntwood Prize affected your career as a writer? A week before the prize announcement, I had given up my job to concentrate on writing full-time. Winning the prize felt like a miraculous validation … Continue reading PART 2: Bruntwood Playwriting Competition 2011
2011 Bruntwood Playwriting Competition
Today marks the launch of the third Bruntwood Playwriting Competition – the UK’s biggest (and most lucrative) award for playwrights. It doesn’t matter where you come from in the UK, whether you’ve never written before (or you’ve written a hundred plays), or what you want to write about. You’ve got until 3rd June 2011 to … Continue reading 2011 Bruntwood Playwriting Competition
Going Public: What playwrights feel about their reviews
Playwright and tutor Steve Waters explains the power of the review, and offers advice on how to deal with them, whether they're good or bad. As I sat down to write this piece, I was waiting for reviews for two new plays of mine: Amphibians, a project I have developed with Offstage Theatre Company, and … Continue reading Going Public: What playwrights feel about their reviews
Why Publish Plays?
Do plays need to be published in the first place? Publisher Nick Hern looks at the how and the why, and what lies ahead in the age of ebooks. Publishing plays is an odd activity – and at Nick Hern Books we publish a lot of plays: there are about 900 in print, and we … Continue reading Why Publish Plays?
The Prompt Book 