Submissions for the Alfred Bradley Bursary Award 2023 opened earlier this year and we received over 200 applications from writers living across the North of England.
After careful consideration, we’re delighted to announce the writers who have reached the longlist for The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award 2023 run by the BBC Writersroom in conjunction with BBC Audio Drama North:
Rory Aaron
Oghomwen Adeyinka-Edward
Sian Armstrong
Benjamin Bee
Karen Featherstone
Annie Grace
Sofia Hadley-Johnson
Chrissy Jamieson Jones
Emmy Khan
Matthew Kirton
Craig Lumen
Nathan Powell
Mark Robertson
Mandip Singh Dhesi
Julie Skeat
Matthew Smith
Juliana Sumsion
Lee Thompson
The shortlist will be announced in early July after which the selected writers will each be assigned to a Producer in the Audio Drama North team who will work with them to prepare their scripts for Audio ahead of the final judging process.
Thank you to all who entered, it was a pleasure reading your work. We would encourage you to keep submitting to our future opportunities, including our Open Call submission window which will be accepting submissions towards the end of this year.
Do keep across our website for details of the latest writing schemes and events on our scriptwriting Opportunities page.
The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award is a bi-annual opportunity for writers based in the North of England who are new to writing for audio. It offers a £5,000 bursary to the winner as well as the chance of a Radio 4 Drama commission.
The Award was established in 1992 to commemorate the life and work of Alfred Bradley, the distinguished BBC Radio Drama Producer and is run by Audio Drama North in conjunction with BBC Writersroom.
