Where Squad Writers Get To
We’ve worked with 277 writers since 2001. At the last count, 20% make their living as writers or in the cultural industries, a further 28% are beginning to make a name for themselves and/or earn some of their living as published, performed or produced writers and activists. Here's a crazy ever-expanding list of what our writers have got up to.
THEY’VE BEEN PUBLISHED BY
Alphabetti Theatre
Atlantic Books
Bad Betty Press
Bluemoose Books
Broken Sleep Books
Bloodaxe
Bloomsbury UK
Burning Eye Books
Calder Valley Press
Carcanet
Cheerio Press
Dead Ink
Emma Press
Faber
Face Press
Forward
Fox and Windmill
Guillemot Press
Half Moon Books
Hutchinson Heinneman
Ignition Press
Live Art Development Agency
Methuen Drama
Nick Hern Books
Oberon Books
Outspoken Press
Pankhearst
Pan Macmillan
Papaya Press
Poems on the Underground
Red Press
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Sad Press
Seren Books
Soaring Penguin Press
Smith Doorstop
Spirit Duplicator
Templar Poetry
The Poetry Business
Unstapled Press
Valley Press
Verve Poetry Press
Wayleave Press
Windmill Press
Write Bloody
THEY'VE BEEN PRODUCED BY/AT
1623 Theatre Company
ADC
Alphabetti Theatre
A Friend of a Friend Productions
Arcola Theatre
Assemble Fest
Battersea Arts Centre
BBC Films
Belgrade Theatre
Box of Tricks Theatre
Buxton Opera House
Camden People’s Theatre
Contact Theatre
Crooked Pieces
Dibby Theatre
Donmar Warehouse
Duke of Yorks Theatre
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Edinburgh Festival Free Fringe
English Touring Opera
Forest Sounds
Gate Theatre
Glasgow Arches Live Festival
Glasgow CCA LGBT In Our Own Words Festival
Glyndbourne Opera Festival
Graeae Theatre
Heart of Glass
High Tide Theatre Festival
HOME Manchester
Hope Mill Theatre
Hull Truck
imove
Islington Mill
Jack Brockley Theatre
Kings Arms, Salford
Lancaster Arts
Lit Up
Liverpool Everyman
L Squared Theatre
Manchester Festival of Libraries
Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J Friedman Theatre
Nave 73, Madrid
National Theatre of Scotland
New Bradford Playhouse
New Vic Theatre
Northern Stage Scratch Nights
No Dice Collective
No Door Theatre
NT Connections
Oldham Coliseum
OverWorlds & UnderWorlds
Paines Plough
Paperback Pictures
Pilot Theatre
Polaroid Theatre
Random Acts
Royal Armouries
Royal College of Music
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Royal Derngate
Royal Exchange Theatre
Royal National Theatre
Royal Opera House
Royal Welsh College
Sage Gateshead
Scottish Opera
Sheffield Crucible
Slackline Productions
Southwark Playhouse
Stephen Joseph Theatre
Tabard Theatre
Tète-â-Tète Opera Festival
Theatre Clwyd
The Cockpit Theatre
Theatre 503
Theatre Delicatessen
The Bush
The Kings Head
The Pensive Federation
ThickSkin Theatre
Tour de France Festival
Transform
Tricycle Theatre
Unity Theatre
Universal, Mercury Studios
Valence Film Festival
Victoria Theatre, Stoke
West Yorkshire Playhouse
Writing on the Wall
Wrought
York Theatre Royal
Ziggy’s Wish
& IN THESE MAGS
Aesthetica
Alliterati Magazine
Ambit
And Other Poems
Anthropocene
Antiphon
A Poem in Which
Atrium
Bath Magg
Black and Blue
Black Box Manifold
Brain of Forgetting
Brittle Star
Butchers Dog
Cake
Canary
Cardiff Review
Confingo
Cuckoo Quarterly
Cuckoo Review
Cumulous
Exeunt
Far Off Places
Flight Journal
Food&…
Fourteen Pages
GQ
Haverthorne Lit Mag
Hoax Magazine
Hobart Pulp
Hull Is This
Index on Censorship
Indigo Rising
Ink Sweat and Tears
Jotters United
Kumquat
Lifejacket
Lighthouse Journal
Litro Mag
Luna Luna
Lunate
Magma
Manchester Review
Media Fields Journal
Modern Singer
Moth
Mslexia
Myths of the Near Future
New Statesman
Nottingham Review
Now Then Manchester
OfiPress
Oxford Poetry
PN Review
Peeking Cat Poetry
Poetry and Audience
Poetry Birmingham
Poetry London
Poetry Review
Poetry Salzburg Review
Poetry Wales
Popshot Quarterly
Prototype
Radio Times
Rockland Lit
Round Table Review
Sentinal Quarterly
Smoke Magazine
Spark
Stand
Stinging Fly
Stockholm Review
Strix
Survivors Poetry Express
The Adroit Journal
The Bohemyth
The Cadaverine
The Compass
The Economist
The Female Gaze
The Grapevine
The Guardian
The Interpreters House
The Literary Review
The Mancunion
The Missing Slate
The Morning Star
The North
The Recusant
The Rialto
The Stage
The White Review
The Writers Cafe
Thorn
Time
Times Educational Supplement
Times Literary Supplement
Tiny Owl Workshop
Under the Radar
Vanilla Sex Magazine
Visual Verse
Vogue
Waymaking
Wild Court
Young Poets Network
Zygot In My Coffee
THEY'VE PERFORMED AT
Albert Poets
ANTI-Festival, Kuopi, Finland
Artful Scribe
Aye Write!
Bad Language
Barbican Young Poets
Borough Gallery/South Bank University
Beverley Literature Festival
Bridlington Poetry Festival
Brighouse Festival
Bronte Festival of Womens Writing
Cambridge International Film Festival
Durham Book Festival
Fictions of Every Kind
First Draft
First Bite Festival
Flim Nite
Glastonbury
Hebden Bridge Arts Festival
Humber Mouth Literature Festival
HOME
Ilkley Literature Festival
Latitude
Leeds Indie Food Festival
Ledbury Poetry Festival
Live at LICA
Long Division
Manchester Literature Festival
Manchester Science Festival
Midsummer Poetry Festival
Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York
Off the Shelf Literature Festival
Poets & Players, Whitworth Gallery
Read Regional Tour
Royal Festival Hall
Saltaire Festival
Shambala Festival
South Yorkshire Poetry Festival
The Baltic
The Barbican Centre
The Chapel/ELFM
The Hen & Chickens
The Festival of Not
The Poetry Society Cafe
The Real Story
The Red Shed
The Roundhouse Poetry Slam
The Verve Festival
Verbose
Wellcome Collection
Young Identity
SQUAD WRITERS HAVE GONE ON TO SET UP
British Asian Women’s Magazine
Decorous Lacuna (copywriting)
Dudaan
Neurodivergent Creatives Network
SMS Poetry
South Yorkshire chapter of Script Yorkshire
AND THEY HAVE WORKED FOR
2012 Media Team
24/7 Theatre Festival
Access All Areas
Aesthetica
Arc Stockton
Attenborough Arts Centre
Bank Street Arts
BBC Films
BBC Radio Drama
BBC Studios
Birbeck, University of London
Box of Tricks
British Film Institute
Cuckoo Writers
Daily Telegraph
Emmerdale
English Touring Opera
Felicity Bryan Associates
Financial Times
First Story
George House Trust
Glyndebourne
Graeae
Hodder & Stoughton
Huddersfield Examiner Digital Team
Ink Sweat & Tears
Irwin Mitchell copywriter
Juice Festival
Labour Party speech writer
Lit & Phil
Magma
Manchester City of Literature
Manchester Poetry Library
mims.com
Mirror Group
Movellas
National Theatre of Scotland
NAWE
New Writing North
Northern Broadsides
Northumbria University
Oldham Colisium
Oxford University Press
Paines Plough
Penguin
Playstation
Poetry School
Poetry Society
Poetry Wales
Royal National Theatre
Rural Arts North Yorkshire
Sheffield Poet Laureate
Sheffield Industrial Museums
Spread The Word
Sputnik News
The Poetry Business
The Poetry Society
Theatre Centre
UKTV
Waterstones
Writing West Midlands
Young Women’s Film Academy
And volunteered for
Alliterati Magazine
Audiences Yorkshire
Exeposé
Juice Festival
National Youth Theatre
Society of Young Publishers
The Cadaverine
The Oxford Student
The Poetry Business
West Yorkshire Playhouse
Wakefield LitFest
Yorkshire Arts
And interned for
Aesthetica
Bloomsbury Academic, Sydney
Carcanet
Comma Press
Ink Sweat and Tears
Inpress
New Statesman
New Writing North
Penguin
Poetry Business
Poetry Society
Random House
ReThinking Economics
The Economist
Times Newspapers
Vogue
Yale University Press
AND BEEN BROADCAST BY
Amazon Prime
BASIC FM
BBC 1
BBC 4
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 6 Music
CBeebies
Channel 4
ELFM
FUSETV
Slung Low 15 Minutes Live
Unity Online
Verb New Voices
Wythenshawe FM
THEY HAVE WON THESE PRIZES
Alfred Fagon Audience Prize
Alison Morland Poetry Prize
BBC National Short Story Award
BBC/BAFTA Young Person’s Screenplay Competition
Best Film Poem, Apples & Snakes/Read Our Lips
Best Play, Durham Drama Festival
Best Writer, BFI Future Film Festival
Best Young Blogger, Blog North Awards
Brick Lane Short Story Prize
Brighton Festival Everyday Epic Short Story Prize
Burgess Prize for Best Creative Writing @ Manchester University
Channel 4/Northumbria University Writing for Television Awards – children’s drama
Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland – Best New Play
Durham University Chancellor’s Arts Scholarship
The Diana Awards
East Riding Poetry Competition
Ecopoetry Resurgence Prize
Elle Talent Award
Ergon Theatre’s Get Heard Competition
Eric Gregory Award
Eurodram Best Hispanic Translation
European Women in Games Student Award
Evening Standard Best Play
Foyles Young Poet of the Year (multiple)
Independent on Sunday/Bradt Travel Writing Award
Ilkley Literature Festival Young Writers Competition
Kevin Spacey Foundation Artists of Choice Award
Lancaster LitFest’s ‘Environment’ Poetry Competition
Liverpool Capital of Culture Short Story Competition
LS13 Competition
Michael Marks Pamphlet Award
M6 Theatre Monlogue Competiton
Northern Writers Awards
Northern Writers Awards Cuckoo Young Writer
O2 Best Online Media Award
Opera Awards Foundation Bursary
Outspoken Page Poem
Oxford Poetry Prize
PBS Pamphlet Choice
Percy Snowden Prize
Perfect Pitch New Musical Award
Poetry Business New Poets Prize
Poetry Business Yorkshire Poetry Prize
Poetry Business Yorkshire New Poet Prize
Portico Sadie Massey Award
Read Our Lips Best Poetry Film
Royal Television Society Awards Midlands
Ryedale Festival Short Story Prize
Say Owt Slam
Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award
Simon Powell Prize
Slam of the North
Southbank Sky Arts Awards
SPA Best Sportswriter Award
Telegraph Just Back Travel Writing Competition
Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition
Trinity College Cambridge Gould Prize
Tower Poetry Prize
UK Theatre Awards Best Musical
UniSlam 2016
Vault Festival Spirit Award
Vogue Talent Award
WH Smith Young Writers Award
White Review Poet’s Prize
Word by Women Student Journalist of the Year
Women Poets’ Prize
Writing Yorkshire Photofictions
& COME 2nd/3rd/BEEN SHORTLISTED
Alfred Fagon Awards
Best Interview, Student Publication Awards
Best Writer BFI Future Film Festival
Best Young Blogger, Blog North Awards
Bridport Poetry Prize
British Short Screenplay Competition
Brunel International African Poetry Prize
Cardiff Mini Film Fest – Comedy Edition
Creative Futures Award
Develop:Star Awards
Edge Hill Prize
Edwin Morgan Poetry Award
Eric Gregory Awards
Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright
Forward Young Judges Prize
Forward Young Poets
Guardian Newsdesk Award
Hawker Prize
Hodgkiss Award
Hollingworth Poetry Prize
Independent on Sunday iWriters
Jane Martin Prize
Lancaster Writing Award
London Magazine Poetry Prize
London Young Laureate
Magdalena Prize
Magma Competition
Manchester Writing Competition
National Poetry Competition
National Student Poets Competition
Nick Darke Award
Northern Writers Awards – Cuckoo Young Writer
Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition
Orwell Youth Prize
Outspoken Awards
Papatango New Writing Prize
Poetry Book Society Student Competition
Poetry Business New Poets Prize
Portico Prize
Pushcart Prize
Radio Academy ARIA Best Audio Dramatisation
Roundhouse Poetry Slam
Royal Television Society’s Scotland Young Journalist Award
Saboteur novel and pamphlet awards
Scottish Poetry Slam
Sheffield Hallam Universe Competition
Silent Uproar
Stiles & Drewe Awards Best New Song
Storgy Shallow Creek Prize
Theatre Centre Brian Way Award
The Mairtín Crawford Short Story Awards
Through the Mill, Hope Mill Theatre
Timothy Corsellis Poetry Prize
T.S. Eliot Prize Shadowing Scheme
V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
Rebecca Swift Foundation Women Poets Prize
World War Two Slam
Writers & Artists Working Class Writers Award
Writing Yorkshire Bike Writing
Young Audiences Music Award
AND TAKEN PART IN
Arts Song Lab, Vancouver
BAFTA Crew
BBC Academy, Scriptwriters
BBC Academy Journalism Trainee Scheme
BBC Writers Room Northern Voices
Beatfreaks BAIT Arts Activists
BFI Young Audiences Content Fund
The Bolton Octagon/BBC Express Scheme
Britten Pears Young Artists Programme
Burn After Reading
Creative Future
Dibby Theatre First Dibs
Emerge Programme
Eastenders Shadow Scheme
Graeae Theatre’s Write to Play
Jerwood New Work Fund
Obsidian Foundation Retreat
Oxford Playhouse Evolve scheme
PAPAtango Residency
Pearson Playwright in Residence Sheffield Theatres
Poly-Technic’s Polymath Programme
Random Acts
Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists Programme
Roundhouse Poets
Royal College of Music New Writing Programme
Royal Court Young Writers Programme
Royal Exchange John Thaw Traineeship
Royal Exchange Skylines programme
SOHO Writers Lab
Toast
The Oxford Wall Residency
Tower Poets Residential
Traverse Scrapyard
TS Eliot Young Critics Scheme
Vita Nova