POPCORN WRITING AWARD IN EDINBURGH
The Popcorn Writing Award is the only award celebrating new writing at the Edinburgh Fringe.
It champions brave and imaginative writing which playfully and artistically questions and addresses current affairs and societal trends and contributes positively to public debate.
Partnering venues include Assembly Festival, Gilded Balloon, Pleasance, Summerhall, Traverse Theatre, Underbelly, Greenside Venues, ZOO Venues and theSpaceUK.
Past Committee members have included: Lena Headey, Wunmi Mosaku, Ruth Wilson, Gonzalo Maza, Michael Longhurst and many others from across film, television, theatre and beyond.
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR 2024
2024 SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED!
A Knock on the Roof by Khawla Ibraheem, Traverse
BLUBBER by Katie Greenall, Summerhall
Count to Five by Zamalisa Mdoda, Greenside
Dear Annie I Hate You by Sam Ipema, Zoo Venues
Diary of a Gay Disaster by Rachael Mailer, Underbelly
Gracie and the Start of the End of the World (Again) by Zoë Bullock, Assembly
HOW I LEARNED TO SWIM by Somebody Jones, Roundabout @ Summerhall
HYPER by Ois O'Donoghue, Summerhall
In the Lady Garden by Babs Horton, Pleasance
My English Persian Kitchen by Hannah Khalil, Traverse
Pop Off, Michelangelo! by Dylan MarcAurele, Gilded Balloon
Really Good Exposure by Megan Prescott, Underbelly
REVENGE: After the Levoyah by Nick Cassenbaum, Summerhall
So Young by Douglas Maxwell, Traverse
Squidge by Tiggy Bayley, Pleasance
The Book of Mountains and Seas by Yilong Liu, Pleasance
The Last Incel by Jamie Sykes, Underbelly
Trawled - when adventure becomes survival by Eoin Ryan, theSpaceUK
VL by Kieran Hurley & Gary McNair, Roundabout @ Summerhall
Weather Girl by Brian Watkins, Summerhall
Winners and finalists announced on the 22nd August - watch this space!
Winners
2023
DUGSI DAYZ
by Sabrina Ali
PUBLIC - THE MUSICAL by Stroud and Notes
THE BRIEF LIFE & MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF BORIS III, KING OF BULGARIA by Joseph Cullen and Sasha Wilson
LIE LOW by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth
2022
BROWN BOYS SWIM
by Karim Khan
RUCKUS by Jenna Fincken
BREATHLESS by Laura Horton
2021
THIS IS PARADISE
by Michael John O'Neill
THE CRACKS by Sian Rowland
MY VOICE WAS HEARD BUT IT WAS IGNORED by Nana-Kofi Kufuor
PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO SHARE by Rachel Causer
2020
ES AND FLO
by Jennifer Lunn
BURN by Chris Thompson
LITTLE MISS BURDEN by Matilda Ibini
Special Mention:
DADDY by Camilla Whitehill
2019
I’M A PHOENIX BITCH
by Bryony Kimnings
A WOMB OF ONE’S OWN by Claire Rammelkamp
DROWNING by Jessica Ross
Past committee members
Francesca Moody
Tony Grisoni
Jessica Malik
Charlotte Colbert
Anthony Anderson
Natalie Denton
Andreja Pejić
Annabelle Wallis
Inua Ellams
Jonny Woo
Jennifer Lunn
Art Malik
Noma Dumezweni
Aurora
Lena Headey
Gonzalo Maza
Carrie Cracknell
Wunmi Mosaku
Enda Walsh
Michael Longhurst
Ruth Wilson
Penny Martin
Fatima Bhutto
Kerry Fox
Bryony Kimmings
Katie Pennick
Extracts
ES AND FLO by Jennifer Lunn
Performed by Celia Imrie & Sharon D. Clarke
Directed by Emma Callander
This play was due to be performed at The Travserse Theatre in Edinburgh, August 2020.
BURN by Chris Thompson
Performed by Kit Harington & Tuppence Middleton
Directed by Kate Wasserberg
This play was due to be performed at Assembly Festival in Edinburgh, August 2020.
Daddy by Camilla Whitehill
Performed by Rory Bremner
Directed by Sarah Meadows
Little Miss Burden by Matilda Ibini
Performed by Saida Ahmed, Ani Nelson & Michelle Tiwo
Directed by Debbie Hannan