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Channel 4 Writing for Television Awards: Eligibility & Conditions of Entry

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Eligibility criteria

You must be over the age of 18 to enter the awards. 

You may submit to all three strands of the Writing for Television Awards: Lime Pictures, Bonafide Films and Rollem Productions. You may not apply for any other awards in addition to these. If you apply for any other award, your submission will be discounted. Shortlisted writers for both strands of the awards will be invited for interview in early 2022. These will take place via video call.  

The production companies (Lime Pictures, Bonafide Films and Rollem Productions) will be given the right of a first look at any scripts developed during their respective placement opportunities. 

No writing experience is necessary. For these awards, we want to discover new writers from Northern England who would like to work in television. We especially welcome submissions from people of colour and those from LGBTQ+, disabled and lower socio-economic backgrounds, who are particularly under-represented in this area of the TV industry. 

The award is open to submissions of work written in World English by writers of any nationality or descent who at the time of entering are permanently resident in the North of England. Applicants must currently live full-time in the North of England. The North of England is defined as the areas covered by Arts Council England in Yorkshire, North East and North West. We regret we are unable to accept submissions from outside these areas due to conditions in our funding from Arts Council England. Undergraduate and postgraduate students may enter if they are permanently based in the North of England. 

To be considered, work does not have to be of a ‘northern’ flavour or have a ‘northern’ theme. Writers who are writing books set in the North of England but who do not live in the region are not eligible. 

All entries must be made through the online submissions portal. To qualify, a submission must consist of two items: the online application form and the creative work in progress. To be eligible submissions to the awards must have been made by 11:59pm on 17 March 2022. Submissions received after this point in time will not be eligible for entry. 

New Writing North will make final decisions on eligibility. Our decisions will be final and no communication will be entered into on the subject. 

For more advice and guidance on your application, visit our FAQs. 

Conditions of entry

  1. All submissions to the awards must be made via the awards website.
  2. Incomplete submissions will not be considered or acknowledged.
  3. The work that you enter must be your own original work.
  4. All submissions must be written by a single author.
  5. If you win an award you will be asked to prove your place of residence and identity.
  6. New Writing North withholds the right to withdraw and reclaim the financial value of an award if it is discovered that a writer has fabricated any information in their submission.
  7. The awards are not open to employees and trustees of New Writing North or of our major supporters, Arts Council England and Northumbria University. Employees of Channel 4, Bonafide Films or Lime Pictures may not apply for the TV award strands.
  8. All winning authors must be available to participate in media and PR for the award around the time of the awards ceremony and related events.
  9. We reserve the right to vary the rules and conditions of entry and to make any amendments to the published schedule as are deemed necessary.
  10. It is your responsibility to ensure that your submission is eligible for the prize. By entering your work for the awards you are confirming to us that the work that you are submitting is your own original work, and that you have read and agree to the Conditions of Entry of the awards.
  11. We will write to everyone who entered for an award and inform them of the outcome of their application once the judging process has concluded.
  12. We apologise in advance that we are unable to enter into individual correspondence with writers about submissions that do not win awards or to give specific feedback on every submission that is made. This is due to the exceptionally large amount of entries that we have to process as part of the awards.

We intend that entering your work for the awards is an accessible process. If you are unclear about any aspect of the submission process please read our Frequently Asked Questions here. If your query can’t be answered this way please email us at awards@newwritingnorth.com. We will endeavour to reply to your email in good time.

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