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Blast from the Past: A WriteForTheStage journey from 2016
Anne Wynne joined the WriteForTheStage courses in 2016 and started with a blank slate, as most of the participants of the course do. Through practical exercises, she explored what was on her mind and found characters who embodied that interest, and developed the script with the help of the group, the tutor, and audiences who gave feedback at Studio…
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WriteForTheStage Prize for New Writing, GMFringe 2026
As ever, we’re very excited to be a part of the Greater Manchester Fringe festival. And it’s all the more gratifying to be a partner of this excellent festival, because it celebrates its 15th year in 2026! This will be the eleventh year of the WriteForTheStage Prize for New Writing, where we offer a publication…
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Podcast Episode: Writing For The Stage
Pip: WriteForTheStage is the kind of site that hands you a sharpened pencil, points at the blank page, and says — politely but firmly — no more excuses. Mara: Mike Heath covers a lot of ground in these posts: getting drafts started and finished, and choosing the right tools to support the work. Pip: Two…
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Free Online Writing Course Until the End of September 2026
Do you find yourself stuck and staring at a blank page? It’s intimidating isn’t it. Because the hardest part of creating a new piece isn’t the structure, dialogue, or even the rewriting. It’s the beginning. And that’s why I’m offering a free online writing course for a limited time. The pressure to “get it right”…
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Podcast Episode: Writing For The Stage And Page
Pip: WriteForTheStage — where a playwright writes a novel, records a pop single, and somehow still finds time to rescue everyone’s Act 2 from the swamp it’s been sitting in. Mara: That’s the territory today, yes. Mike Heath has been busy across two very different fronts — a new novel launch with original music to…
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Supertonic – my second novel and accompanying pop single
You probably know me more as a playwright than a novelist, and you probably don’t know me as a musician at all. But I am, indeed, all of these things – I was a musician before I was a writer, and after 25 years of playwriting, I finally released my first novel last year. So,…
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New Playwriting Short-Courses Start Next Week
Right then. If you’ve been telling yourself you’ll “get back to that script soon”, consider this your friendly nudge. My next block of WriteForTheStage online playwriting courses kicks off next week. I’ve condensed university-level learning into accessible 5-week courses, so if you’re preparing your script for a competition or performance, you’ve got time to hone your text.…
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How to Focus — A Playwright’s Tips on Getting to the End of Your Draft
They say that we all have a book in us. Or maybe it’s a play? Everyone has a story to tell, but not everyone has the time or the skillset to get it down on paper. But, actually, that’s a bit of a fallacy — we can all write a story. We just need to…
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Stop Press: Online Playwriting Courses Starting in June (and Over the Summer)
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to get your play moving again, June brings a whole run of opportunities to dive back in. Our Top of the Stack series returns — three focused online courses that guide you through the architecture of your play, act by act — followed by the WriteForTheStage Summer…
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The Best Playwriting Apps for theatre — Ranked by a Playwright
Finding the right playwriting app for theatre isn’t about bells and whistles. It’s about whether the tool actually supports the messy, intuitive, character-driven work of writing for performance. And after twenty years working with new writing, teaching playwrights, and developing scripts for stages big and small, I’ve tested the apps that genuinely help writers get…