Get your writing out there!

The New Digital Storytelling project is to set up support for writers: we can set up a website for you to develop your story, show you how to establish a namethrough the use of social networking websites, reach your readers through blogs and twitter, broaden your following through videos, animations and podcasts. However, you want to make money and while Web 2.0 storytelling can bring you digital readers there is a limit to the amount of money to be made through advertisting, so even as a new digital author you will have to write for the traditional media. So you will need to write, write, write. There are many opportunities to be found on the internet, here are a few I have found (but by the time you read this blog these may have past so look for what interests you).

Ten Minute Playwright
Deadline: 31 December 08 - The Panoply Arts Festival in Alabama are looking for ten-minute plays.

The Westminster Prize
Deadline: 12 January 09 - Soho Theatre are looking for short plays from people who work, live, or study in the borough of Westminster.

FeatureLab
Deadline: 16 January 09 - B3 are looking for writers, directors, or writer/director teams, and are particularly interested in people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Page One
Deadline: 29 January 09 - Screen Yorkshire want to help residents of Yorkshire and Humber develop projects for Rollem Productions and Warp X

Red Writers
Deadline: 31 January 09 - Red Ladder are looking for new writing talent. Three writers will be paid to write treatments, one of which will be commissioned for £1,500