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Kim's play SOMEBODY CHILE reached the shortlist in BBC Writers Open Call 2024. Her play MY BROTHER's KEEPER was shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020 with EKP and Paines Plough. Kim writes and produces short films with six produced films to date. Her commissioned short NO ENTRY - on the Windrush Injustice - with Goldsmiths University of London & MA Filmmaking Students 2020, was selected for Academy, BAFTA and Canadian Screen Award Qualifying festivals in 2021/22. It has won awards including best student film and best screenplay and was streamed on American Airlines on board entertainment 2022-23. Her script THE DRAFT - on friendship and the choice of motherhood - won the 2020 International Women’s Day - EQUAL short screenplay competition by ProcamTV and the Farm Group. THE DRAFT was fully funded and shot entirely on Virtual Production. It is streaming on Gunpowder & Sky’s DUST Youtube sci-fi channel with more than 69,000 views to date. 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She’s written two critically acclaimed plays: My World Has Exploded A Little Bit and Rejoicing At Her Wondrous Vulva The Young Woman Applauded Herself (★★★★ ‘the glittering poetry in Heesom’s script, so vivid and visceral that sometimes the stagecraft feels redundant in comparison to the glory and guts of the words’ ‑ The Guardian). They are published in a single volume by Bloomsbury. Find out more at bellaheesom.com or follow @bellaheesom on Instagram. https://www.empirecosmic.com/news/how-i-got-published-72msp monthly 0.5 2024-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6657c0a13475ae3e095d4a91/df8bb010-3941-4b31-9f5d-83ec74dfb9d5/Screenshot+2024-07-31+014928.png News - THE CREATIVE TRIBE: HOW I GOT PUBLISHED Tania Tay’s debut adult novel The Other Woman won Headline's inaugural Modern Stories Open Submissions Initiative. Her writing often explores female friendship, and motherhood. She’s also the author of Spellcasters, a magical middle grade series under pen name, Crystal Sung. She developed a screenplay with BBC Writersroom, worked as an advertising copywriter, and has an MA in History of Art from the University of Edinburgh. Instagram: @taniatay88 X: @taniatay88 Website: taniatay.com The Other Woman will be on a 99p Kindle deal for August on Amazon. You can find Spellcasters, her children's series, here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6657c0a13475ae3e095d4a91/25eb8ec6-d883-4adc-ab3e-dfdadcfd829f/20230207_164423.jpg News - THE CREATIVE TRIBE: HOW I GOT PUBLISHED Kenechi is a Nigerian-born London-based writer and architect whose work centres on culturally diverse characters, particularly female protagonists in sci-fi, fantasy and horror genres who stand strong in challenging conditions. Her debut YA sci-fi novel, Augmented, was the inaugural winner of Faber Children’s Imagined Futures Prize in 2023 and will be published in 2025. 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