Welcome to SFSA's newest national competition!

We invite you to submit an entry (maximum 500 words and able to be easily performed within 3 minutes - complete with sound effects) by 31 January 2008.

This is an entirely different medium - unlike stage or television, offering only sound to work with - yet in many ways peculiarly suited to science fiction.

"Television never does science fiction very well because it can't afford the production values. With radio you really do have a theatre as large as the universe"

- Mike Walker (award winning radio dramatist, cited on BBC World Service website)


"The diversity of plays that the BBC World Service puts out is a good pointer towards why one might think of radio as a good first port of call for an idea"

- Marcy Kahan (ditto, also cited on BBC World Service website)


"There are no limits - A radio play can move through any dimension of time [or] to any location -the ability of the radio dramatist to create a unique world in the listener's imagination is a special quality generally denied to TV viewers or theatregoers -the listener can be instantly transported inside the head of a character and can hear thoughts"

- IRDP website

Links

The following are links to sites that give some suggestions and requirements on writing for radio.

Independant Radio Drama Productions (UK)

BBC World Service: How to write

BBC World Service: How to write a Radio Play

Rules and Entry Form

Please note that all Mini Radio Play competition entries must be accompanied by an Entry Form.

Please read the Competition Rules for further details.

For more information, please email us.