We are delighted to announce the Longlist for our 2018 short radio competition. 17 entries were selected from an incredible 298 submissions. Hit “more” to find out who they were:
The judges have judged, and the Longlist for the Little Wonder Short Radio Drama Competition 2018 has been compiled. We will announce the names and plays on Monday at noon Paris time, but between here and there we will be tweeting 50 “yes” comments from our judges in 10 batches across Saturday and Sunday. This will help you get an idea of what our judges liked and were looking for, as well as keeping us all exciting for the big announcement!
Please remember that critiques of plays are by their nature subjective, and that a “Yes” from one judge was not enough to get a play on the longlist. That being said, feel free to get terrifically over-excited if you think you spot a comment about your play 😉
The last episode of our 5-part sci-fi comedy Space Station Zeta released yesterday! This is a big deal for us, and I hope you’ll check it out. In this article I’ll talk about how we did it and how you can write your own – how to develop the initial idea, how writing a series is different from a one off, how to record your own series and the pros and cons of a series compared to one off plays.
Before that, you really should listen to the plays – first, there are major spoilers in the article, second, it’s funny, I promise! So here it is: Space Station Zeta, All Five Episodes, about intelligence, love, and Chairman of the Federation Ronald Dump. Once you’ve listened, come back after the break to find out how to do it yourself.
I hate to do this, but I need to ask all our subscribers to re-subscribe. And encourage anyone not subscribed to subscribe, because it’s awesome. I promise it’s for a good reason.
After the huge response to our competition and the massive increase in audience both for About Writing and Little Wonder, we’ve been having some logistical problems. Basically, Microsoft thinks we’re a spambot. Many of our mailings are getting rejected, bounced, chucked in junk bins or just going where they’re not wanted.
To fix this, we are switching back to the Jetpack/WordPress subscription system. The good news is that it will let us be GDPR compliant, make posts you receive easier to customise, and make it more straightforward to unsubscribe if you don’t love us any more (sob).
The bad news is that means we have to unsubscribe everyone then ask you to re-subscribe. Manually. Uurgh. If you are on our current subscribers list, you should receive an email in the next couple of days asking you to confirm that you want to be subscribed. Please click confirm! If you don’t receive the email, or you aren’t subscribed and want to be, then fill out the subscription box to the right or at the bottom of this email. Hell, as long as you’re here, just stick your email in the box. Better safe than sorry. I strongly recommend this if you are taking part in the competition/are interested in are radio shows or writing articles/if you want the good karma that comes with doing nice things to writers. You can see a picture of what it looks like at the top of this post (don’t try to fill in the picture. It won’t work).
The other bad news is that we won’t be able to do our monthly newsletters anymore. I’m going to put our last roundup in this post, and after that you’ll get more prompt notifications when we have new content (lets face it, I was never very prompt.) So, if you’d like to hear more about stuff that happened this month, press more. And please do subscribe!
On Thursday night our Radio Short competition closed with a whopping 298 accepted entrants. Thank you everyone for your hard work and enthusiasm taking part. And huge thanks to the BBC Writers Room for promoting this event.
The last hundred entries were submitted within the last 24 hours, which has created some small (but happy) logistical problems for us. As a result, the timetable for results and resubmission will be as follows:
Teasing of Longlist Notes: Weekend of September 29th on twitter @littlwonder
Longlist Released: October 1st
Longlistees sent full feedback: October 7th
Resubmission of plays with changes by Longlistees: November 5th
Shortlist Announcement: November 26th
Public Performance at Moving Parts: December 16th
Winner Announced: December 31st
