brat summer is over. now it's time for pannage autumn, the ancient medieval custom of releasing your pigs in the woods so they can eat the chestnuts and acorns that fall to the forest floor.

Applications for the BBC Writers Open Call opportunity will open from 12 noon on Tuesday 5th November 2024 until 12 noon on Tuesday 3rd December 2024. Time to get polishing those scripts!   You can find the terms and conditions of entry on our website, and make sure to have a

Exciting new stuff! I've got a new short piece in this. Come and see! #theatrepower directed by Jon Nash

🖋 Letting all writers know our unsolicited script portal is open for eligible full-length scripts this weekend (Sat 7 & Sun 8 September)! 📨 buff.ly/3XgcYw2

One of the biggest protests in the history of Great Britain 1 MILLION people

Men-An-Tol 📷 Matthew Shaw #StandingStoneSunday

When leaders like Starmer blather on about “tough choices”, why is it *always* code for hitting some of the poorest hardest? Where’s the “tough choice” of a wealth tax on the super-rich? Why do shivering pensioners have to pay the price for “fixing the foundations”? #bbclaurak

A cloudy September sunrise unfolds over the ancient stones. 🌥️

🙌🏾 We are Here to Write, our writers’ group for global majority people based in the South West returns on 25th Sep!⁠ ⁠⁠ Want to sign up? Register your interest via our What's On page or email [email protected] to arrange a conversation.⁠

The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting for 2025 is now open for entries! 🎉 We're proud to be Publishing Partners of the Prize, as we have been since its inception. Plus, it's great to see two NHB authors amongst this year's judges. See more and find out how to enter 👇

We are still alive 💔😔 An entire displaced people's camp, along with their tents, was buried beneath the sand in Mawasi,Khan Younis. The craters went as deep as nine meters into the ground. There were no bodies, no tents, nothing left Most of the victims were women and children

Catch Malaika Kegode's new radio play Tribe of Two on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow at 2.15pm or later on BBC Sounds and be immersed into Mal's creative writings. Then catch her genre-defying show Outlier, heading to The Drum this month! 📆 26 Sep - 09 Oct 🎟️ bit.ly/46hx2lQ

Remember, back when this all started, people debated for weeks about whether or not Israel bombed one (1) hospital? Because that would be a terrible thing to do?

Loved this show this evening Theatre Royal Plymouth everything you could want from a piece of theatre, it's here all week check it out

🧡 A letter to Just Stop Oil prisoners of conscience, from Naomi Klein. 🙏 Thank you for the support.

Sharing some watery worded poems tomorrow at #seafest Royal William Yard with a host of other brilliant poets. Runs 11-2 and I'm on near the end! Come and play and celebrate the sea!

Breaking: References to the Israel-Gaza war were at the heart of the reasons behind the Royal Exchange Theatre’s cancellation of its updated production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Stage understands 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/news/excl…

Moments ago: Israel has bombed the Ibn Haitham school in Gaza City, which shelters dozens of displaced Palestinian families. Israel’s daily slaughter of the innocent is a direct result of the impunity. Mass murder and mass destruction has become normalised.

‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve Excellent interview with ⁦Tony Juniper⁩ & great to see his calls for reform of National Parks to help restore nature: theguardian.com/environment/20…