We Know What Makes Storytelling Work

Ideas Tap has paired up with The Old Vic to bring an amazing opportunity for UK Writers.

If chosen you’ll get:

- The prestige of being an artist on attachment to The Old Vic Theatre and being one of The Old Vic Twelve

- An award of £1,500 to cover your development time and expenses whilst working on the commission 

- A budget of £1,500 to spend on your creative development (purchase equipment/attend a training course)

- Support and mentoring from Old Vic Staff and Old Vic Associates Invitations to Old Vic meetings, press nights, special events and workshops throughout the year and unprecedented access to Matthew Warchus’ first season

- The opportunity to work with other emerging practitioners

Sounds pretty awesome to us. Remember if you need any help brushing up on your play-writing skills, we can help with that.

Hey! If you have scripts (or script ideas) Triforce (working ITV and ITV studios) want to hear from you. WriterSlam could give you the chance to get your idea turned into a drama on ITV - Pretty darn cool. More Information here.

Storytelling has a shape

It dominates the way we tell stories.

Whoever we are, for whatever purpose we tell them

Wherever we are in the world.

Into the Woods, is John Yorke’s bestselling book on story structure. We’ve teamed up Mr Yorke himself to bring to life our own online courses to help you learn all you need to know to create the perfect story - in any form or genre. 

We’d really like to know more about you guys so: How do you balance a full-time job (or responsibilities) with writing without going insane? 

Today we’re taking a moment to re-love our (slightly wrecked) copy of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in preparation for the BBC’s upcoming TV adaptation.

To find out how you could learn to combine genres as well as Susanna Clarke check out our Free (yep, I said free) exploring genres taster click here.

Use the username: taster And the password: Genre.100

Last week we went down to the Shaw Theatre in London for World Book Night 2015. The night featured performances, readings, and talks from writers David Almond, Sarah Winman, Blaine Harden, Elizabeth Freemantle, Akala, Annabel Pitcher, Irvine Walsh, and the fabulous Lynda La Plante.

Hi there, 

This is our first Tumblr post, and we’re a little nervous but here we go... The Professional Writing Academy is an education company made up of tutors, teachers, and authors who want to help you learn the art of writing and storytelling.

We produce digital learning products that teach people how to understand and write stories in many forms and genres and across platforms, from virtual classroom to e-book.