A Month of Letters Challenge

Here's the Challenge:

In the month of February, mail at least one item through the post every day it runs. Write love letters, thank yous, or simply notes to say that you miss an old friend. Send a fabric swatch from your new dress. A feather you picked up while on a walk. Whatever it is, let yourself step away from the urgency of modern life and think about an audience of one. Think of it as sending 23 little gifts.

And, who knows, you might enjoy going to the mail box again!

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Warner Bros. Television Writers' Workshop

The Warner Bros. Television Writers' Workshop

Deadline for entry: May 1-June 1, 2013

The Warner Bros. Television Writers' Workshop consists of three components, all geared towards preparing the writer for a successful career in television writing:

Lectures: Weekly lectures feature guest speakers currently working in television and include a mix of showrunners, directors, actors and agents. Each seminar will teach a new skill essential for surviving and excelling in a writers' room as a staff writer and beyond.

Simulated Writers' Room: In the winter, the Workshop participants are divided into smaller groups for an intensive writing experience. Each participant will be required to complete a new spec script under the same deadlines found on a show currently in production.

Staffing: Upon completion of the program, Studio executives will help participants, who pass the Writers' Room, obtain a staff position on a Warner Bros. television show currently in production.

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Kids Imagination Awards

Cynopsis: Kids !magination Awards honor the best in kids & tweens media. Now in its second year, this unique awards program is from the industry's most trusted brand, Cynopsis Media, and celebrates the very best in children's television. Now's your chance to win a crystal Cynopsis: Kids !magination Award!

The Cynopsis Kids !magination Awards honor the year's most outstanding and imaginative achievements in programming, marketing and promotion - the efforts that will have lasting impact. This includes new shows, movies, websites, apps and games, in addition to the marketing and advertising campaigns that support children's content.

Entry Deadline: February 20, 2013.  Awards Ceremony: NYC, June 2013.

Selected Shorts

Writing Contest Call for Submissions:

Submissions are now open for the 2013 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize!

The winning submission, selected by Jim Shepard, will be read as part of the Selected Shorts performance at Symphony Space on June 12, 2013. The story will be recorded for possible later broadcast as part of the public radio series. The winner will also receive $1000 and a 10-week class from Gotham Writers' Workshop.

Story requirements:
* Submit a single short story that fits the theme "Complicated Families."
* Your story must have a title.
* Your story must be no more than 750 words (Times New Roman, 12pt font).
* Your story must be unpublished.

Deadline: 5pm, March 15, 2013, EST.

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Living Worlds

  

Walt Disney's Imagineering Research & Development

announces:

LIVING WORLDS

Bringing Immersive Stories to Life in the Real World

Deadline to apply: December 1, 2012

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When Walt Disney created a place that brought his beloved characters, stories and places to life in a place called Disneyland®, he created a world of story experiences that immersed audiences and invited them to believe - and an industry was born. Nearly 60 years later, the creative and technical group that helped him create Disneyland® lives on as Walt Disney Imagineering.

Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development wants to work with innovative storytellers willing to push the limits to create fully immersive worlds where guests can explore, play and discover deep narratives. To achieve this goal, the Imagineering team has launched the Living Worlds program, through which they hope to support the development of a few unique concepts through collaborative project work. With your imagination and today's technology, the possibilities for immersive storytelling are almost boundless.

CineStory

The CineStory Writer's Retreat takes place over four days in the beautiful mountains of Idyllwild, California. Attendees receive three 90-minute one-on-one sessions with CineStory mentors. During these meetings they can discuss everything from the script(s) they submitted for feedback, to jump-starting their writing careers.

When not meeting in one-on-one sessions, writers participate in "informal rooms." These are interactive sessions with panels of 2-3 mentors, which cover such topics as pitching like a pro and the state of filmmaking in the digital age. In addition, mentors and writers gather for meals, drinks, film screenings, and other special events.

Want to come to a retreat? Click here to read the 2013 rules and deadlines.

Nantucket Film Festival: Screenplay Competition

The Nantucket Film Festival was founded by brother and sister team Jill and Jonathan Burkhart in 1996. The Burkharts lived on the island year round, and with their love of movies and the community, they knew it was the perfect place to begin a film festival. These days, NFF has become one of the premiere destination film festivals in the world. This year's festival will take place June 20th-24th. 

Showtime's Tony Cox Screenplay Competition recognizes an emerging screenplay as the best from the pool of submissions each year. The competition gives writers the opportunity to have their scripts read by a prestigious jury, receive top industry recognition, participate in a Festival focused specifically on screenwriting, including a Mentor's Brunch with the Festival's Screenwriters Tributee, and win-in addition to a $5,000 cash prize-an incredible, all-inclusive month's stay on stunning Nantucket at the Screenwriter's Colony.

Upcoming submission deadlines for films and the Tony Cox Screenplay Competition:

March 12, 2012: Regular Deadline

March 26, 2012: Late Deadline

All submissions processed through www.withoutabox.com.

Script Frenzy

Have you ever wished there were a version of NaNoWriMo dedicated to scriptwriting?
There is! Script Frenzy!
 
Script Frenzy is an international writing event in which participants take on the challenge of writing 100 pages of scripted material in the month of April--screenplays, stage plays, TV shows, short films, and graphic novels are all welcome. Every writer who completes the goal of 100 pages is victorious and awe-inspiring and will receive a handsome Script Frenzy Winner's Certificate and web badge proclaiming this fact.

Even those who fall short of the word goal will be applauded for making a heroic attempt. Really, you have nothing to lose-except that nagging feeling that there's a script inside you that may never get out.

30 days. 100 pages. April. Are you in?

P.S. Your NaNoWriMo user name works over at Script Frenzy.