The Bridge Awards, in association with Skriva Writing School, is offering a Scottish screenwriter the opportunity to have their completed film script read and appraised by screenwriter and producer Douglas Dougan. The winner will receive an intensive script development session with Douglas. This can be in the form of written feedback, via Skype or face to face (depending on geographical location). Douglas Dougan is a screenwriter and producer based in Edinburgh. He began hi

Poet-playwright Rebecca Sharp blogs about the strangeness of poem-writing for us: 'I write across a few different forms – poetry and plays mostly, including collaborations with musicians, visual artists, sound artists, you name it… But we’re here to talk about poetry, so let’s do that. The reason for the preamble is to swerve the idea that poetry is one fixed thing – and sometimes a distancing or challenging thing. A poem is anything made of words, I always say. Literally,