Tinniswood Award 2008 Shortlist

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors have announced the shortlist for this year's Tinniswood Award for radio drama:

• Love Contract by Mike Bartlett
• Yesterday An Incident Occurred by Mark Ravenhill
• Wasted by Shelagh Stephenson
• Glass Houses by Colin Teevan
• Avoid London by Mike Walker
• Memorials To The Missing by Stephen Wyatt
  

The Tinniswood Award honours the best original radio drama script broadcast in the UK during the period 1 January – 31 December 2007. A prize of £1500 will be awarded to the winner.

The judges for this year's Tinniswood Award are:

• Jane Anderson, Radio Editor of the Radio Times
• Shelley Silas, whose radio plays include, The Sound of Silence, Ink, Calcutta Kosher, The Magpie Stories, Collective Fascination, as well as adaptations of Hanan Al-Shaykh’s novel Only in London and a co-adaptation with John Harvey of Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet
• John Tydeman, who played a key role in BBC radio drama for nearly four decades, as producer, Assistant Head and then Head of Radio Drama.
  

The Tinniswood Award will be presented at a ceremony in London on Tuesday 21st October 2008.

Last year's winners were Rachel Joyce for To Be A Pilgrim, produced by Tracey Neale (BBC) and Mike Bartlett for Not Talking, directed by Steve Canny and produced by Claire Grove (BBC).