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ICWP-L email
discussion List -
Main Features
- Moderated List (to keep discussions ON TOPIC)
- English
Language
- a
high-volume 10-30 messages-a-day discussion tool
- networking
with other playwrights, directors, actors, academics
- scores
of playwrights who've had many professional production successes
sharing their experiences and expertise
- notification
of contests, publication and production opportunities
- advice sought
and given on a huge range of issues including:
- writing
techniques
- contacting
theatres
- synopsis
writing
- script formatting
- copyright
- script submission
- play development
- screenwriting
- computer
systems and software
Conversations spring
up about:
- current productions
around the world
- famous plays
- festivals
- new writing
initiatives
- retreats
- playwriting
courses
- conferences
- opinions about
playwriting books
- the lowdown
on dubious practices of some theatres
- production
and publishingcontracts
- production successes,
rejections and disappointments are shared with others who
know how to give support because they've had the same experiences.
- OFF TOPIC discussions
about human interest issues:
the environment, philosophy, cultures, politics, food, health,
travel, etc.etc.You can almost smell the coffee! and the
chalkdust!
- Messages can
be received:
- as they
are processed (10-30 a day)
- in a once-a-day
Digest containing all the messages from the previous
day's postings
- in an Index
of topics where you can read about the subjects that
interest you online
- All List subscribers
have access to the Archives: copies of all messages are
stored in an Archive going back to 1994, when the ICWP-L
List was started by Diane Taber-Markiewicz, one of the founding
Members of ICWP.
There are messages about everything to do with life as a
woman playwright from that first draft to the biggest professional
production. Read about the successes, failures, rejections,
acceptances, workshopping, rehearsing. It's all there: a
virtual playwrights' university in cyberspace!
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The ICWP-L List
culture
The ICWP-L List
is a little like a playwrights' cafe with its own sub-culture.
It doesn't operate as "just" a resource tool, but as a community,
a place to network, a place to boost and encourage each
other. People discuss many aspects of their lives as playwrights,
as women, as human beings and this helps to relieve some
of the isolation playwrights, and women playwrights in particular,
experience. There are currently over 200 women playwrights
from 12 countries subscribed to the List and we enjoy having
new members join.
There are also
a few male subscribers. Men are welcome to join provided
they support the objectives of the ICWP Inc.
The List communty is incredibly supportive and it sometimes
seems like everyone knows everyone else, but mostly the
friendships have grown through the internet as some people
have been on the List for over 10 years. Some subscribers
have met each other, at conferences, theatre events, or
on holiday trips and travels.
Expect the conversation
to be about anything....for it is, after all, these things
and more that provide the life its experience and the writer
the story.
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