⭐ THE MUSICAL THEATRE WRITING CHALLENGE ANNOUNCED BY GUS GOWLAND ⭐
The Musical Theatre Writing Challenge is a brand new writing challenge to encourage writers to keeping writing – come what may.
In early 2021, award-winning writer Gus Gowland (Pieces of String) created an online writer’s room on Zoom. The room was free and open to all, designed as a shared space to work, to meet other writers, and to combat freelancer isolation. What emerged from the Zoom room was something different entirely: the Musical Theatre Writing Challenge.
Every day throughout the month of May, participants of the Musical Theatre Writing Challenge will receive prompts – some provided by special industry guests – focused on generating new work and keeping creative juices flowing. Participants can be at any stage of their writing journey, and it’s free to get involved. All you have to do is take part and keep writing – come what may!
“The online writing room has been such a wonderful thing during this current lockdown”, says Gus. “The musical theatre writing challenge is a way for us to expand this community and provide all of us with an opportunity to really test ourselves as writers. Half of the challenge of being a musical theatre writer is being able to work quickly, and to a brief. Although this is a bit of fun, we hope that it will also help writers to enhance their skills.”
As musical theatre writers come in all varieties – writing book, lyric, music, or any combination – each prompt is either adaptable to your particular skill or provided with clear instructions on how to approach it without specialist knowledge. The goal of the challenge is not to complete the next Hamilton, but to create and to develop, every day of the month, come what may.
Sign up to be part of the inaugural musical theatre writing challenge at www.themusicaltheatrewritingchallenge.com and follow the journey via the hashtag #ComeWhatMay.
What a fab idea! ! !
Thoughts? X x x
