Toby Frost is one of our writers (that’s how it works with Little Wonder – once you’ve written me a play I own you forever.) He’s also well known for his Space Captain Smith series of novels and for being an all round great bloke. Recently, he took the incredibly brave move of branching away from his publisher (with whom he still works) and self-publishing his passion project – a set of complex, multi-faceted urban fantasy novels known he has called the Dark Renaissance series. The second in the series, Blood Under Water, has recently been released and because we love Toby and his work, here’s a review of a book you definitely aught to go and buy.
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The Shortlist for the Breaking Boundaries Short Radio Play Competition is ready and as follows:
Buddha Hat by Clare Shaw
Flamingo by Thoko Masikini
Like Candy From a Baby by Michael Lin
Pride of Rotterdam by Tom Harvey
The Fall by Zoe Grainge
Warmest congratulations to everyone who made the shortlist. All five plays will be performed and recorded in November, at an as yet to be determined venue in Paris (we lost our usual venue, but two months to find a stage is an eternity in theatre time!)
Show off your work – or just show off this cool show you’ve found.
All our shows are published under a creative commons no derivative license, which means you are free to share and republish our work provided you don’t make any changes and you credit it back to us.
If you have written or performed for us or, hell, even if you just like our work and want to show it to more people (yay!), you may be interested to know that you can embed a media player on your website or into your social media feed that will allow people to listen to the chosen show directly from your post! This is a great addition to your on-line portfolio, will pull more people into listen to your work/this work you enjoy, and will make us happy by helping more people to hear our work. So how do you do it?
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How do you know when you’re ready to start your story?
Sometimes it’s obvious you’re ready to start because you
can’t help yourself. You just start
writing, and four years later you realise you have an eight-hundred-page novel
and the editing job from hell.
However, if you live in my world than you have a brief for a
script, a deadline, a cast list and maybe an idea about a guy you saw on the
news the other day and this woman in the park who told you that you were a bad
father because you let your children play on the see-saw.
To help you get from vague ideas to something you can start
writing, I’m going to show you the four-question test. Not only will the four questions help you
solidify vague thoughts into something that will work as a play, it also works
pretty well as a pitch when you get asked “what is your play about” and all
you’ve got is “there’s this guy and something to do with a see-saw.” Ready?
Here goes.
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I am delighted to announce the longlist for the Little Wonder 2019 Breaking Boundaries Short Radio Play Competition:
- Buddha Hat by Clare Shaw
- Flamingo by Thoko Masikini
- Funeral by Miranda Barrett
- How I Almost Climbed Everest by Clare Knights
- Like Candy from a Baby by Michael Lin
- Relationship counselling with the croits by Tamsin Pearson
- That Day We Sat Together and Sang by Yuqun Fan
- The Fall by Zoe Grainge
- The Pride of Rotterdam by Tom Harvey
Warmest congratulations to everyone who made the longlist and commiserations to all who did not.
Longlistees will receive a email in the next day or so (all emails will be sent at the same time) with a detailed judges critique of their play. They will then have until Paris Midnight Sunday August 11th the revise and resubmit their play for consideration on the Shortlist.
The Shortlist will be announced on September 1st. Shortlisted plays will be performed and judge before a live audience in Paris sometime before Christmas.
As for those of you who did not make the longlist, I have written feedback for more than fifty of the entrants. I will be sending it out as soon as possible.
Thank you so much to everyone who took part, and keep writing!
