Picador and Green Carnation Company celebrate Alan Hollinghurst’s bestselling novel Our Evenings with a stage writing competition
Submissions are now open for ten to twelve minute monologues and duologues, with the winner selected by Alan Hollinghurst himself.
To celebrate the paperback publication of Alan Hollinghurst’s novel Our Evenings, Picador is partnering with Green Carnation Company on a prize for stage writing.
Responding to themes within Hollinghurst’s novel, Queer Reflections: Theatre & Memory is a short monologue / duologue stage writing competition for emerging LGBTQ+ playwrights. Writers are invited to explore queerness, theatre, and memory in a ten - twelve minute monologue or duologue.
The winning submission with be selected by Alan Hollinghurst and will receive a cash prize of £500, script development mentorship from Green Carnation Company, and will have their script produced as a short filmed stage performance that will be shared across Picador, Pan Macmillan and Green Carnation’s channels.
‘We are thrilled to be working with Picador to celebrate the paperback publication of 'Our Evenings' by Alan Hollinghurst. It's a privilege to work with the godfather of UK Queer literature whilst fulfilling our mission to give new LGBTQ+ writers a voice and platform.’
Dan Ellis & Dan Jarvis, co-artistic directors of Green Carnation Company
‘I am thrilled that we are collaborating with the Green Carnation Company on this prize. They are a fantastic company and an essential voice in theatre. The combination of Alan Hollinghurst, one of our greatest living writers, with a project that supports new and emerging voices is a source of immense pleasure and pride for all of us at Picador.’
Mary Mount, Picador Publisher
Further details of the competition can be found on Green Carnation's website. The deadline for entries is 5pm, Friday 11 April.
Our Evenings
by Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel returns to some of his most enduring themes: sexuality, social mobility and the friction of class differences. The novel is narrated by David Winn, who recollects his experiences as a mixed-race scholarship student at boarding school, his relationship with his mother, and his time at the Home Counties estate of the Hadlows, the family who fund his scholarship. The Hadlows’ son Giles looms large in the story, and goes on to become a divisive and dangerous political figure, while David pursues a career as an actor. Like his other novels, Hollinghurst’s latest is intricately constructed, a searing portrait of British society told through the divergent paths of its characters.