Tinniswood and Imison Awards 2008 shortlist

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors have announced the shortlists for this year's Tinniswood and Imison Awards for radio drama.

The Tinniswood Award honours the best original radio drama script broadcast in the UK during the period 1 January – 31 December 2007. A prize of £1500, kindly donated by ALCS, will be awarded to the winner. The shortlist is:

• Love Contract by Mike Bartlett

• Yesterday An Incident Occurred by Mark Ravenhill

• Wasted by Shelagh Stephenson

• Glass Houses by Colin Teevan

• Avoid London by Mike Walker

• Memorials To The Missing by Stephen Wyatt

The judges for this year's Tinniswood Award are:

• Jane Anderson, Radio Editor of the Radio Times

• Shelley Silas, whose radio plays include, The Sound of Silence, Ink, Calcutta Kosher, The Magpie Stories, Collective Fascination, as well as adaptations of Hanan Al-Shaykh’s novel Only in London and a co-adaptation with John Harvey of Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet

• John Tydeman, who played a key role in BBC radio drama for nearly four decades, as producer, Assistant Head and then Head of Radio Drama.

The Imison Award encourages new talent by rewarding the best original radio drama by a writer new to radio and transmitted within the UK in the same period.

The shortlist for the Imison Award 2008 is:

• The Magician's Daughter by Adam Beeson

• Chameleon by Vicky Meer

• The Birth And Death Of Daylight by Stephen Riley

• Excluded by Michael Stewart

• Left At The Angel by Jack Thorne

• Tin Man by Laurence Wilson

The Imison Award is judged by the Society of Authors’ Broadcasting Committee. A prize of £1500 will be awarded to the winner (the prize money for this award is kindly donated by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation).

Both awards will be presented at a ceremony at the British Academy in London on 21st October 2008.

Article updated: 18.08.2008