Premier Screenwriting Competition 2009
‘From page to screen’
Writers International Premier Screen Talent:
ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT!
There’s just one week to go to send in your entry for the WIPST competition (Writer’s International Premier Screen Talent). So if your script is still sitting on the computer, it’s time to put the finishing touches and mail it to us without delay. We will accept entries via email or post. Our eminent panel; Simon Harries (writer/Director), Alan Cook (Producer/Director), Hazel Walford Davies (Professor of English and Drama) and John Rhys Thomas (Actor/Director) are waiting to read your entry, and the winner will have a ten minute pilot filmed of their work, as well as receiving some invaluable advice on scriptwriting. Wipst has been created to seek undiscovered raw talent in the film and television industry, giving hope to young professionals in the field. With just a week to go until the closing date, it’s important that you send your entries in now. It is so difficult to break into the business, to get seen or heard, but with a short film/television programme to show, you can enter film festivals or send to directors and producers – the people that make things happen.
The closing date is November 30th 2009, and the overall winner will be announced on January 18, 2010. A pilot (10 minutes of your work) will be commissioned to promote the screenplay which will be filmed in March/April 2010 at an appropriate location for the film/television screenplay. Contact editor@vibetv.tv for more information, or visit our website at www.vibetv.tv/competition.aspx and click on the Wipstcompetition icon.
In August of this year, Lion Lounge Press published its first anthology of creative writing, ‘The Lounge Companion,’ in which they managed to include
previously unpublished authors from various creative writing courses around the world, alongside established and critically acclaimed writers.
Though they do not offer pecuniary compensation for shortlisted submissions, they realise that publication is in itself a form of remuneration, especially
for those that are looking to make a name for themselves as writers, and they would also like to stress that in no way do they intend to seize hold of the
writers’ copyright. In fact, contracts will be drafted with shortlisted authors in order to protect their interests.
‘The Lounge Companion Vol. 2′ is scheduled for publication in March 2010, and they will continue to accept submissions for it until December 31,2009.
They also welcome submissions for their other 2010 publications, including travel writing and other genre fiction. Please have a look at
For those interested in this, or If you have any queries regarding the above-mentioned, please do not hesitate to contact:
Leon Terner, Founding Editor of Lion Lounge Press
Factory Atlantic -a space for theatre inquiry – invites you to attend Excerpt from a Work in Progress. The 45 minute presentation will be given Monday, the 30th of November at the yLofts, 252 Prince, in Charlottetown at 7:00pm.
Please use the side entrance to Loft Three adjacent to the inn parking lot. Adults only and please be prompt as late comers will be unable to attend given the space’s configuration. A five dollar donation is suggested. A gathering will be held immediately following the work in Loft One. Modest food will be served and the long awaited 50/50 draw will occur. Please bring what you would like to drink.
We very much look forward to seeing you and drop us a note if you think you can make it: factoryatlantic@gmail.com. Thanks.







