WriterSlam Tips from Pete Thornton
To help all of you entering WriterSlam, we asked Pete Thornton, Head of Comedy for Tiger Aspect, to give you some insider knowledge on what he’s looking for from WriterSlam…
WriterSlam Winners – Michael Wiafe
We’re catching up with another of our WriterSlam winners, Michael Wiafe. Michael is a London born avid reader and writer. In 2013 Michael wrote his first feature film, a sports drama…
Lee Coan’s WriterSlam Story
Lee Coan was our WriterSlam winner, receiving a potentially life changing prize of a development commission with ITV. After the excitement of the competition had died down a bit, we…
WriterSlam UK in the Guardian and Broadcast
We’re very pleased to share coverage of WriterSlam UK in the Guardian Online and in industry magazine Broadcast this week. You can read the full Guardian article by Tara Conlan…
WriterSlam UK Winners Announced!
Last night saw the very first WriterSlam UK take place at Theatre Royal Stratford East! We had a great industry turn out supporting some fantastic emerging writing talent, including a…
WriterSlam UK Finalists Announced!
We’re very pleased to be able to announce our five finalists for the very first WriterSlam UK! The finalists are: Caitlin Innes Edwards Lee Coan Lisa Blackwell Michael Waife Tom…
Sophie Petzal’s Story
As we look forward to our first WriterSlam event, we want to share with you a success story from a pilot writing initiative we ran two year’s ago with the…
Shortlist Announced for WriterSlam UK!
We received over 1000 submissions for the first WriterSlam UK and were pleased to see a huge range of ideas and a very high standard of writing across the board….
Submissions Open for WriterSlam!
Are you a writer trying to get into writing for TV? Our new platform for writers is supported by ITV, ITV Studios, BBC and Tiger Aspect and is a writing…