Papatango today announces that Laura Waldren has won the 15thannual Papatango New Writing Prize for her first full-length play Some Demon, from 1,468 entries. Also announced today were the other shortlisted writers: Piers Blackfor My Dad Hunts Bears; Georgia Green for Private Adult Things; Yolanda Mercy for Handsworth Boys; and Hannah Shury -Smithfor Go Back Home!.
The winning play Some Demon explores life inside an eating disorder unit. It will have its world première at theArcola Theatre in summer 2024 – with full information to be announced at a later date– and will be published by Nick Hern Books. The four shortlisted writers will each receive £500 and their plays will be filmed as staged readings, digitally broadcast for a global network on The Playwright’s Laboratory.
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