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

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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