BBC New Writing (formally the New Writing Initiative) was set up to to identify and champion talent and diversity for all BBC platforms, across BBC Drama, Entertainment and Children's programmes.
BBC New Writing runs various schemes targeting specific writers who come to our notice via a wide range of sources: the unsolicited script system, agents, play readings, contacts with theatres, film schools and so on. We rarely invite open submissions for these schemes.
A TV Screenwriter's course
A Radio Drama Writers' group
Two T.V. Popular Series schemes
A Children's Comedy Drama Series scheme
A Comedy Writers' Group
Regional Initiatives
Writers' Bursaries
We are constantly on the lookout for writers of any age, with potential for BBC TV and Radio Drama to take part in these initiatives. You should let us know if there is a reading, production, or screening of your work and we'll try to see it or ask you to send us a script. We accept and read unsolicited scripts for complete Film, TV and Radio Drama.
Writers who previously had to guess where to submit their work now have a single address, and the confidence that, if their work is brilliant, it will be recommended to the right producers or development units across the BBC.
All work is assessed for the talent of the writer, as well as the script's suitability for any strand of BBC Drama, Entertainment and Children's programmes. We receive around 200 scripts each week and competition is very tough.
We only recommend writers and scripts that have a strong chance of being commissioned.
The BBC Writers' Room is the online presence of the New Writing Initiative. Now a comprehensive resources for writers, you can view information, download script formats and see the latest opportunities at www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom
The website also includes a dedicated section on writing radio drama with tips from professional scriptwriters and executives. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/writing/tips_radiodrama_general.shtml
Please don't send scripts by email - we haven't the resources to print them up nor to assess them on screen. You can send your complete work by post to the New Writing Co-ordinator at:
BBC writersroom
1 Mortimer Street
London
W1T 3JA
Full details of submission requirements are available on the writersroom site.
Unfortunately we cannot enter into detailed discussions about individual unsolicited scripts.
Contact us only if you have an urgent inquiry - for example if you have not had an acknowledgment within a month, or a further response within three months of the acknowledgment.
We also have regular open access sessions around the country, where writers are warmly invited to come and tell us what they think, and put questions about commissioning procedures and policy in Radio, BBC Film, Series, Serials, Comedy, Children's TV, and online to Heads of Department. Please let us have your contact details and we will let you know the details.
Open access competitions for writers are the province of BBC Talent.
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