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Words and Women Winners 2018

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Margaret Meyer
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Kerry Hood
Announcing Winners of the 2017/18 Words and Women Annual Short Prose Competition.
The Words and Women national prize for a woman writer over 40 has been won by Kerry Hood, (£1,000 and a month long writing residency sponsored by the Hosking Houses Trust) and Margaret Meyer is the winner of our regional prize £600.
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If you missed Noirwich the Norwich crime-writing festival, never fear! UEA have filmed some of it that you can see on Youtube
EU Call for TV Programme Ideas The European Commission's Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency has issued a call for proposals for projects that will increase the capacity of audio-visual producers to develop European projects to circulate in the Union and beyond; and to facilitate European and international co-productions. Specifically the Agency is looking to fund: 
  • Drama films (one-off or series, including sequels or second and third seasons of an existing drama series) of at least 90 minutes intended primarily for TV
  • Animation (one-off or series) of at least 24 minutes intended primarily for TV
  • Creative documentaries (one-off or series) of at least 50 minutes intended primarily for TV.
There is a budget of €12.5 million and at least 50% of the financing of the total estimated production budget must be guaranteed from third party sources of finance (either through direct financing or by advance rights sales). The deadline for submitting proposals is 3rd December 2015. 
Read more at: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe/funding/tv-programming-2016_en

Listen again to Will Self's National Conversation provocation at Cheltenham Literature Festival Saturday 4 October 2014 

Useful article

Here's a link to an article about Feature Film Investment 

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