Competition: Red Planet Prize Run By: Red Planet Genre: TV script Prize: £5000 and more Deadline: 30th September 2008

The London Comedy Writers will be holding a special meeting with the express purpose of trying out their first ten pages on our members. Places to have your script reviewed will be limited, but you can apply by e-mail. The date has not yet been confirmed but we are looking at a date in August.

Following last year's success, we are now calling for submissions for our second annual writing competition.

The winner of this year's competition will receive:

• A £5000 prize
• Representation by a leading literary agency
• A script commission from Red Planet Pictures.

Runners up will have the opportunity to be mentored by the Red Planet team.

Budding writers should send in the first ten pages of a 60 minute pilot script with television series potential. The entry should also include a one-page outline about the series.

The first ten pages of a script are the most important.  It's in those first ten pages that you have to grab your audience. The series outline should give us a flavour of your own unique voice as well as an idea of your vision for the series.

There are no guidelines or restrictions in terms of genre or subject.

Scripts will be judged by a Red Planet Pictures panel.

PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT SEND MORE THAN THE SERIES OUTLINE AND FIRST TEN PAGES OF YOUR SCRIPT WITH YOUR INITIAL APPLICATION OR YOUR ENTRY WILL BE VOID.

ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON.

Should your entry be successful in the first round, we will contact you requesting the rest of the script - so have those next fifty or so pages ready to send!

Any entries received after the closing date will not be entered.

Further details here.

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