Sat 19 July

9.30-10.00am
Stage@TheDock

Meet the Writers

A panel with this year’s commissioned writers

9.30-11.00am
Pier Street

How to Write Across Media

A workshop with Lydia Marchant

10.00-11.00am
Stage@TheDock

Middle Child Writers’ Group (Part One)

Scenes by the 2025 Middle Child Writers’ Group

11.15am-12.15pm
Pier Street

How I Review New Work

A talk with Holly Williams

11.30am-1.00pm
Stage@TheDock

No Scrap, No Chips

A play by Jim Norris
With a monologue by Sean Climie

1.15-2.45pm
Pier Street

How to Experiment with Form

A workshop with Javaad Alipoor

1.30-2.30pm
Stage@TheDock

3.00-4.00pm
Stage@TheDock

Colonel Gadaddy

A play by Noor Sobka
With an extract of Isabelle by Marc Graham

3.30-4.30pm
Pier Street

How I Make Political Work in an Unstable World

A workshop with Cheryl Martin

4.30-5.30pm
Stage@TheDock

Everyone We Know Has Kids

A play by Samuel Sims and Jay Grainger
With monologues by Laura Wilson and Michelle Kelly

6.00-7.00pm
Pier Street

Middle Child Writers’ Group (Part Two)

Scenes by the 2025 Middle Child Writers’ Group

7.30-9.30pm
Stage@TheDock

Keynote Speech

A talk by Ola Animashawun
Presented before Keeper by Ellen Brammar

7.30-9.30pm
Stage@TheDock

Keeper

A play by Ellen Brammar
Presented after the keynote speech by Ola Animashawun