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Becky Prestwich

@beckyph7.bsky.social
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Writer (TV, theatre, radio)

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Morgan Lloyd Malcolm @mogster.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
This weeks post comes from the lovely @beckyph7.bsky.social 💓 open.substack.com/pub/morganll...
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An Honest Day In The Life Of A Writer #19
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Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We're looking for a passionate and driven individual to join our Mentoring team to recruit, match and support mentoring pairs across Greater Manchester. If this busy and rewarding role sounds up your street, get in touch! www.arts-emergency.org/jobs Deadline to apply: 30 June 2025
Bold black text on a yellow background. Text reads 'We're hiring! Greater Manchester Mentoring Officer'
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Planning for a masterclass I’m delivering on theatricality next week & I came across this on my son’s bookshelf. Come along to hear me read from picture books (& maybe say some other things) www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Well, in that case, I’d love to. Xx
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Of course, happy to! (Although I don’t think I’d be as wise & articulate as this…)
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is so lush. What a lovely thing! ❤️
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
So, you’ve got an idea but what makes it a play? Is your story theatrical enough for the stage? And what does, ‘theatricality’ really mean anyway? I’m not claiming to have the answers to those questions, but I never get tired of exploring them. Come along!
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Masterclass: Writing for the Stage | Theatricality: what makes your play, a play? | Arvon
You have an idea for a story that you think will work well on the stage. But what makes it a play? Is your story theatrical enough for the medium? What does, 'theatricality' even mean? From the relati...
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
you're gonna love the piece I filed yesterday
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
if you change the name on a CV from a man to a woman's name, recruiters immediately rate it as 18% less competent. they don't stop to check gametes/wombs. pretending all sexism is rooted in a particular biology leaves us with no way to talk about systemic bias against female intellect & ambition.
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Emma Adams @emmabob3.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
@thewritingsquad.bsky.social is recruiting, so I wrote about why I love my squad job go 👉🏻 www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202... But if you just want juice: Squad gives free workshops, opps, 121's & peer community. Northern, 16-22, writer? Apply 👉🏻 www.writingsquad.com/join-the-squ... Pls RP. ❤️
A drawing of a dummy's head that wears purple round glasses, and is surrounded by circles.. exploding out of the head is all kinds of objects like pens clouds lightening awards plants. The words 'aged 16-22 and write' are printed below.
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Zee Zom @fnafilms.com · 03/03/2025
Northern Writers: Get on this if you qualify www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4 - Alfred Bradley Bursary 2025 - Terms and Conditions
Applications for the Alfred Bradley Bursary Award Terms and Conditions
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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
2/ Respond to the Government consultation by midnight tomorrow - we have produced a guide to make it easy for you (and pls share with colleagues and friends!) writersguild.org.uk/fight-back-a...
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Fight back against Government plans on copyright and AI - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain
On 17 December the Government launched a consultation on AI and copyright. The Government’s proposed plans on AI and copyright will weaken your copyright protections and allow AI companies to use …
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I wrote this on the most consistently terrible, and fatal, idea in centrist politics today. On Fanta, rebadging, and why attempting to win votes from fascists is morally disgusting and politically suicidal. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: Appeasing the far-right won't placate them — they'll just want the next cruelty
Their concerns are not about society, the economy or public safety, they’re an ever-moving target of fear and hatred that cannot be sated, it has to be challenged.
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Toby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I was planning my Arvon Masterclass on pacing this afternoon. Got quite excited, as it isn't something I've taught exactly like this before. Still places available for Friday. Why don't you join us? www.arvon.org/writing-cour... @arvonfoundation.bsky.social
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Masterclass: Pacing Your Fiction | From breathless plotting to breathtaking details | Arvon
This Masterclass with Toby Litt, author of the daily Substack A Writer’s Diary, will be a practical, craft-based look at the best ways of keeping your reader alongside you – whether you intend to whir...
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Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
People out here like “Kanye’s music always sucked.” I am begging you to deeply internalize that terrible people are capable of making profound and incredible things. If we cannot hold these conflicting truths, monsters will always be able to hide behind their talent
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Late to it, but really loving Spent. Gem of a show. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Two - Spent, Series 1
Real life hijacks the high life as an international catwalk model crashes down to earth.
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Oh, also, ‘comparison is the thief of joy’. Hard to say it without sounding like you read too much self help stuff. But it’s true.
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I don’t know if its aggressively normie exactly, but I find “can’t go over it, can’t go under it, got to go through it” from Michael Rosen’s Bear Hunt, a deceptively simple but profound &beautiful way to think about getting past hard things.
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Amazing. Deservedly!!
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Yeah, it’s interesting - maybe bcos of doing a bit of radio - I don’t hate the idea that some stories are there just to keep people company as they go about their lives. Obviously, it’s not a good note for everything. But for some shows, I think people not wanting to concentrate is true and fine.
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
My favourite reads of 2024, I think.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
This is very good. 👇Anyone who works in the creative arts (books, music, art, comedy, podcasts, radio, TV, editing, etc) should be telling the U.K. government that copyright matters
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Fiona Sturges @fionasturges.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
There's something deeply disturbing about the sight of male photographers & film crews pushing, shoving and using their considerable strength to get close to Gisèle Pelicot as she arrives at the court, while knowing what she has been through. Have some decorum, people. Give the woman some space.
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
There is nothing that instantly fills my heart like watching kids perform ❤️
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Fantastic, thanks for the suggestions!
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Thanks v much Ian!
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Any recommendations for books or podcasts on the craft of novel writing - or events or master classes - anything you’ve learned from & loved would be gratefully received!
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
So, I am very grateful to have received a Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant from the Arts Council to spend some time thinking, learning & exploring, to see if maybe I just might be able to learn a new way of writing to bring the idea to life…
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Usually, whenever I have a new idea - I can sort it in my head, is it a stage play? TV pitch? A radio drama? I had this one idea, I just couldn’t sort& I found myself thinking, “wait, is this actually a novel?” Then, my next thought was, “but I have no idea how to write a novel!”
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Did they film Wicked at Elstree? Has Ariana Grande been to the Wimpy down Borhamwood High Street?? DELIGHTED at this idea.
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
One of my fave narrative devices! (The Bee Sting is actually Paul Murray, not Paul Lynch - sorry)
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I think French Braid by Anne Tyler does this… I can’t remember now if the POV’s in The Slap recur…? Summerwater by Sarah Moss (although each POV has more of a vignette feel to it). The Bee Sting by Paul Lynch.
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Really loved Wicked. When it finished, I could happily have popped out for a wee, topped up my popcorn & sat through it from start to finish all over again.
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Proper start of a new term, blank notebook feel to this place. I like it.
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Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Things I’ve loved a lot recently - In Memoriam by Alice Winn Love Marriage by Monica Ali Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld North Woods by Daniel Mason
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Hannah Khalil @hannykha.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Public service announcement! 📢Woke up early so made a playwrights starter pack! Far from exhaustive so please message me if you’d like to be added❤️✍🏽 go.bsky.app/MrCbp2Q #theatre #playwights
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