After a summer of reading and considering the huge amount of work that writers have sent us, we’re coming out of hibernation at the Bruntwood Prize.
We’d like to thank all the writers who entered for their patience. Next Wednesday 5th October we will announce both the shortlist for the awards and the 100 plays that will receive feedback from us.
The announcement will be made on this website but also through an email to each writer who entered the competition and all those signed up to our newsletter, for which you can register in the grey box to the right.
This shortlist of around ten plays will go forward to our judging panel, who will deliberate during October and make the awards themselves on Monday 14th November, before the prize ceremony on Tuesday 15th November.
To read more in detail about the process, click here.
Wooo! Earlier than expected. Soooo excited.
Is there an approx time for this? Meeting my agent, then the off to the National PM for tea with Nick, Bennett fancies lunch so I’m holding him off but want to know roughly when so I can check me twitter…please.
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Been waiting sooooooooooooooooooo long….
Very funny, Andreas! Chambers good sir/madam, hold your horses, some people have been waiting 30 years (and will probably go to their graves) without any recognition – these are shark-infested waters you’re swimming in! Luckily, there are other things to do in life than hang about waiting for rejection-dejection, I’d go and do ‘em – many kind regards and good luck!!!
Will you also be announcing the longlist or do the top 100 plays count as the (long) longlist? Thanks.
Hi
The only distinction we’ll be announcing is the list of 100 and the ten within that which have been shortlisted.
Many thanks
Many thanks for clarifying — will the longlist of 30 or 40 plays referred to in the judging process outline be announced at a later stage? I’m asking because for those lucky enough to be on such a list, it would obviously be a great thing to add to their writing CV.
Thanks to all on the reading team for what must have been a lot of work assessing so many plays!
Neil, I think what Brunters was saying is that there’s the shortlist, and then there’s the hundred – and that’s all.
If by some miracle I’m among the hundred, I’ll defo put in any covering letters that I was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize. To be in the top 100 out of 2,188 is pretty good going!
Thanks, Fred — that’s what I thought but in the section about the judging process they do refer to a longlist of 30 or 40 as well as the top 100 and the shortlist of 10 so I was just wondering what happened to that.
But you’re right, to be in the top 100 would be fantastic (sadly, I don’t think I will be though!)
Good luck — hope you do well!
Neil
Hi Neil
In our process this year, we ended up with a distinction that wasn’t clear cut between a list of 100 plays and a list of 40 because of the quality of that 100. Hope that makes sense and that all will be clear in the announcement we make on Wednesday.
Best wishes
You too, but I too think it would be a miracle if I even got into the hundred.
Well, I made the feedback list last year and the feedback was very useful. Getting on the shortlist is the dream and winning the utopia, but hay life goes on!
I wasn’t this nervous on my wedding day! Maybe that’s why it ended in divorce hehe.
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Hello, Bruntwood. Say for instance, that maybe I entered I say maybe I have totally forgotten the false email address I gave and now can’t get access to it: will the “names” of the top 100 still be published somewhere on here, or will they only know if they get their email? Not that I’m saying I’ll get on the longlist, but wouldn’t have submitted if I didn’t I had a chance…
Thanks for your query, Vernon. Probably the quickest thing to do is to sign up to our newsletter in the grey box on the right. All newsletter subscribers will receive the same email announcement as writers and at at the same time.
Best wishes.
When the short list is announced, will you use the aliases or our real names?
Hi
We will be using pseudonyms – we don’t collect the real names of writers who enter. The competition also remains anonymous for the shortlist, who are judged anonymously by the judging panel.
Best wishes
Hi Bruntwood – any idea when in the day the info will be released? Ta!
At some point tomorrow morning, the information will be up. Every writer will get an email at the same time though.
Best wishes
Thanks – and see you at the prizegiving… I hope!
Hello – the grey box for emails isn’t working for me – or maybe it’s this wretched machine I’m using?
You should be able to type the email in and press the arrow button and then get an instant message in a new window that says you’ve been successful in adding yourself to the newsletter. It might be worth trying this on another machine or a different browser.
Best wishes
This is so exciting, just doing the mathematics, roughly 1 in 20 chance of being a feedback person and a 1 in 1000000 chance of being shortlisted!!!
were there any themes that emerged this year? my play was the one set in an office about the guy trying to write his bruntwood shortlisted play at work whilst his bosses tried to make him do real work but he resists and in act 3 they metaphorically lobotomise him at his desk whilst and it ends with him refreshing bbc weather page and the bruntwood website page. a worthy winner!!! good luck everyone
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Thanks for technical advice! All the best everyone.
Erm. Andreas. Am not great with figures but…. Is 1 in 20 right?!!
@Andreas – October 4, 2011 at 11:48 am
Assuming a random selection, surely the “odds” of being shortlisted would be 100 in 2188 ~= 1 in 219? i.e. not quite as bad as your stated one in a million, and actually better than the chances of matching four numbers in the UK lottery.
You’ve got your dot misplaced, Peter. 1 in 21.88. Which puts the selected 100 in the top 4.57038%
Approximately…
Disappointed there aren’t (m)any plays addressing the evolution of consciousness- a topic so pertinent to this crazy epoch, in which we reside!