Lesley Gannon 🎩
@WGGBLesley
Deputy Gen. Sec. @TheWritersGuild. Also, woodcarver and history obsessive. #ListerSister. Guardian/N7. All views my own, RTs are not an endorsement.
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📢 Bursary applications open for underrepresented #novel writers📚
Apply now for a chance to receive 50% funding for our six-month online novel-writing course with John Yorke and Dr Joanna Nadin (Taylor’s version). Two bursaries up for grabs!
Closes 17 May. Find out more: johnyorkestory.com/course/story-f…
Great that our motion Diversity in TV Commissioning was passed unanimously at TUC Black Workers Conference this weekend
The motion was seconded by Equity
#HereToStayHereToFight Trades Union Congress TUCEquality
Darren Henley, chief exec of Arts Council England is coming on @bbcfrontrow on Monday to talk about Let's Create. If you run an arts organisation with experience of this ACE funding/applications, wd love to hear from you. Email [email protected] bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
We're celebrating 20 years of our Olwen Wymark Awards this year + nominations are now open
If you're a WGGB member + someone has given you exceptional encouragement in your theatre writing this past year, this is an opportunity to show your appreciation
writersguild.org.uk/olwen-wymark-a…
Building resilience is vital in any #writing career + in our next free online WGGB member workshop you'll learn how to do just that!
Join writer, broadcaster + therapist Corinne Sweet on 2 May, 10.30am - 12.30pm on Zoom
Email [email protected] to register
To celebrate 20yrs of The Writers' Guild Society of Authors Tinniswood Award for best audio drama, I'm speaking with 2024 winner Shôn Dale-Jones, whose wonderful comedy #Cracking won 2024 prize BBC Radio Drama Audio Awards
Join us 11 April 5-6pm
Online. Free
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Proud to have helped create change with The Writers' Guild ERA5050 Women's Committee Parents & Carers in Performing Arts WOW - Women of the World Black Womxn In Theatre Aurora Metro Books: bit.ly/3PyMYJg 1/6
Congratulations to all Tinniswood finalists BBC Radio Drama Audio Awards tonight - hear the plays by John Russell Gordon Huw Brentnall Lindsay Sharman Shôn Dale-Jones The Writers' Guild:
writersguild.org.uk/tinniswood-awa…
Badge Cafe The Soho Poly Celebrate 10 Years UK International Audio Drama Fest The Soho Poly
14:30- Disrupt Your Everyday: Sound of the Next 100 Years? Panel hosted Nicholas McInerny, guests incl Ming Ho Boz Temple-Morris Jonathan Holloway Dan Rebellato
& hear short plays from UK International Audio Drama Fest
IN PERSON TIX or-
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Listen up! Come and join writers from The Writers' Guild Audio Committee for a couple of events we're The Soho Poly on Weds 27 March.
10:00-12:00 Disrupt Your Everyday
Writers Drop-in come to write, chat, meet other writers... and then -
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Our brand new show will be My Mother’s Funeral: The Show, written by Kelly Jones (Kelly Jones), directed by Charlotte Bennett. The show will preview at the Belgrade on 25-27 July, before opening at Roundabout at Edinburgh Fringe ahead of a UK tour. More info, loading…
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📣 🥳 Bloody over the moon to have my play #MyMothersFuneral as part of Paines Plough 50th. Big love to The Writers' Guild for the #NPCS that make it possible Mercury Theatre Belgrade Theatre ❤️🔥💐
We're here today with Nathaniel Tapley and Joel Morris at the #BigComedyConference BCG Pro, meeting comedy writers from across the industry and sharing what the union is doing. Come and say hello!
📢 WGGB, Netflix UK & Ireland and Personal Managers’ Association sign landmark deal on remuneration which will apply to UK writers on Netflix scripted live-action commissioned series
Read the joint statement
writersguild.org.uk/wggb-netflix-u…