2025 Edition
In our second edition, both writers and producers will work together to explore new ideas and partnerships, in a space providing unique creative conditions and designed to help generate stories with a fresh perspective and a deep resonance.
Workshop 1
Themes
Ideas and perspectives – what stories do we wish to tell? The writers selected from the call will come with themes in which they would like to invest more time and thought.
Workshop 1 takes the writer’s initial theme, idea or impulse and explores it creatively through a mixture of exercises, group discussions, guest presentations and small teamwork.
5 days: Monday 27th Jan - Saturday 1st Feb 2025
Workshop 2
Character
Through this pre-writing workshop, writer and producer teams will discover new tools that will help them flesh-out concepts together, combining characters, drives, quests and obstacles.
Workshop 2 looks to take the developed ideas formed from Workshop 1 and sketch them into a story where characters and plot directions emerge.
5 days: Monday 10th - Saturday 15th March 2025
Workshop 3
Narrative
This workshop is a writers’ residence in which the pairs will focus more on the actual telling of their story. Who, How, What is it about? Where does it start? Where does it finish?
Workshop 3 moves from theme and character to narrative, understanding how these stories will actually be told: their form, length and main plotted direction.
5 days: Monday 16th - Saturday 21st June 2025