Arts Richmond Radio Plays Competition 2025
Entries are invited for the
Arts Richmond Radio Plays Competition
2025
Arts Richmond invites writers, and potential writers, to submit a short play for the 2025 competition for original radio playwriting
Deadline for scripts is 30 May 2025
Conditions of entry:
1. The play must be original, unpublished, and previously unperformed.
2. The writer must live or study in Richmond Borough
3. The play must be no longer than 15 minutes maximum performance time.
4. The play should require no more than 4 actors
A shortlist of 4 finalists, chosen by an experienced panel of judges, will be asked to record their work.
Shortlisted writers are to provide a recorded performance of their play, which will be uploaded to the Arts Richmond You Tube Channel as part of the Competition.
All submissions must be accompanied by a separate top sheet with name, title and contact details. Scripts are read “blind” so please do NOT put your name on the script itself.
Deadlines: Scripts for the Competition must be sent to Arts Richmond by 30 May 2025
. Please complete and return the form below when you submit either your electronic
PDF or your hard copy script.
The Short list of 4 finalists will be informed by 18 July 2025 and will be asked to record their play with such recordings to be sent to Arts Richmond by 29 August 2025.
Prizes: The 4 finalists will be awarded a certificate as a record of their radio production.
The overall winner, as decided by our panel of judges, will be presented with the Colin Skipp Arts Richmond Radio Play Trophy and will receive a prize of £100 at the Arts Richmond Drama Party on 20 September 2025.
Finalists will also receive feedback from BBC Writersroom professionals
Alternatively, send your hard copy script to: Arts Richmond at the address below
by the closing date of 30 May 2025
Whether you are submitting via electronic or hard copy, include the following information:
Contact Name: ______________________________________________________________________________
Society/Group/Organisation (if appropriate): _____________________________________________________
Tel: _________________________________ Email:________________________________________
Arts Richmond, ETNA Community Centre, 13 Rosslyn Road, Twickenham TW1 2AR
020 8892 9446 info@artsrichmond.org.uk www.artsrichmond.org.uk
Roger McGough Celebration Afternoon
Join us for a celebration of the poems shortlisted from the Arts Richmond ‘Changes’ Poetry Competition held earlier this year. We will be joined by the man himself, Roger McGough who will be announcing the winners and entertaining us with some of his own wonderful creations.
A Copy of the Anthology ‘Changes’ is available to purchase with your tickets.
Sunday 1st June 2.30 pm at OSO Arts Centre SW13 0LF
Long List of finalists
Sarah Boyd Marking the Changes
Glenys Adams Dartmoor Summers
Derek Sellen History According to Dog
Lynne Huby The Watering Trough
Christian Ward At the tryouts for Sylvia's Plath's Muse
Geofrey Beevers Birmingham Nights
Jane Turner More than a Gesture
Bryan Govett A Question of Choice
Lesley Mason Sharing our Hearts at 8.am.
Liz Kendall Small Details
Lisette Abrahams Joe comes Home
C.P. Nield Witching Hour
Stephen Watt Family Home Films
Poppy Jackson Tangerine
Trisha Broomfield A Blossoming Friendship
Marcus Tickner Anna & the Monarchs
Laura Frances Williams Lex Talionis
Carey Powell Class 2J's Show and Tell
Anna Mindel Crawford How to Change a Tyre
Dan Altmann Charles Darwin
Bridget Fraser Rocky
Soraya Fernandez DF I Am
Loreto Branford Many Afternoons
Patryk Imielski Premature
Marcas Mac an Tuairneir At Lusty Gaze
Stuart Forty A Box of Old Photographs
Eleanor Wood His Condition Changes
Lisette Abrahams Marking the Miles
Stephen Watt Geese
Derek Sellen Norfolk, August 21st, 1968
Stuart Forty Sycamore Seeds
Susan Thomas NURSE JUDY’S HANDWRITING DISAPPEARS
Vanessa Horn A Life in Bags
Mark Totterdell The Reverend Baring-Gould at Grimspound
Claire Fader For the times … they aren’t a-changin
Caroline Treitel On seeing a copy of the Radio Times
Hilary Watkins Olchon
Ann MacAskill Changes at the Library
Frank Lowry The Lights are Going out All Over Mother
Liz Kendall Scarecrow Wordsworth
Arts Richmond Artist of the Year Competition 2025
Arts Richmond Artist of the Year Competition 2025
In association with Habitats & Heritage
Saturday 5 July 2025
At the beautiful Grade II listed Grove Gardens Chapel in Richmond Old Cemetery, Lower Grove Road, Richmond From 10am – 2pm
The chapel and the historic grounds offer much architectural and natural interest and beauty, so come along with your stool, easel, other artists' requirements, and refreshment to enjoy a creative day. The chapel is undergoing restoration, but it is hoped the work will be completed by the end of June, when facilities inside the chapel will be available (water, toilet). And in case of rain, for judging the works inside the chapel.
Some free parking on the roads, and the 371 bus stops are in Marchmont Road and Park Road (from Richmond and Ham directions).
Hope to see you on the day!
