PAID WRITING WORK: £460 (~$570) PER COMPLETED SCRIPT - ALL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT COMPENSATED - FULL CREDIT - ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR EARLY CAREER WRITERS

Overview

Six to Start is expanding its slate of immersive New Adventures audio dramas – thrilling adventures where you're the main character. We’re looking for writers with an excellent ear for dialogue, an impeccable understanding of story and character, and the ability to produce first-class audio scripts to a tight deadline. You'll be reaching over seven million players and joining writers such as Margaret Atwood, Naomi Alderman, and Joanne Harris. If you fit that description, we’d love to hear from you!

We welcome submissions from writers of all backgrounds, and we especially encourage those from historically underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, gender minorities, LGBTQIA+ people, people of colour, people with disabilities, and any intersectional identities. If you feel comfortable, you're welcome to self-identify in your email. A third of the writers we commissioned from our last round of submissions were people of colour, and we plan to do even better this time. Alongside our general submissions track, we're offering additional opportunities to early career writers (more in our Application Guidelines – linked below).

We pay £460 (~$570 USD) per completed script, and writers are compensated at all stages of script development. This is a work-for-hire opportunity and you will be working alongside us to develop your ideas into viable New Adventures scripts, to which we will own all rights in perpetuity with no exceptions. A full fee breakdown can be found in the Application Guidelines.

This round of submissions will close on June 30th, 2020. We will open again in the future. A post-mortem of our first commissioning round from 2019 can be found on our blog.

Pitch Guidelines

Our New Adventures bring the audio-driven running gameplay of Zombies, Run! to new stories and new genres. Walk, jog, or run in the real world and become the hero in another.

Your pitch submission should include:

1–3 ideas, each no more than 50 words, included in your cover letter.

Two pages of dialogue between two or more characters, in script format. This can be taken from any project, but we prefer that it not be written specifically for this application.

Pitch submissions are not compensated. We plan to respond to pitch submissions within 90 days. Please be aware we develop our own ideas internally and we may have already developed a similar or identical idea to yours. As such, we reserve the right to develop any ideas submitted independently.

If your submission is successful, we'll pay for you to write a structural outline on one of your ideas as the next stage in the process.

More information about the format and pitching process can be found in the Application Guidelines.