Drop in between 5.30pm and 7.00pm for one-to-one appraisal of scripts, stories, poems and details of publishing opportunities,
performance venues, workshops and courses
with
ALISON DOWN
Screenwriter and poet
BAFTA Rocliffe’s Emerging Children’s Writer.
DAVE WARD
Author and poet
Editor ‘Smoke’ magazine
Nominated for Carnegie Medal
Please book in on arrival.
Each individual session usually lasts 20 minutes.
Writing on the Wall’s Pulp Idol 2025 Grand Final is Here!
For seventeen years the Pulp Idol competition has uncovered the best new novelists the Liverpool City Region has to offer.
Many novelists, including Ariel Khan (Raising Sparks, Bluemoose Books), James Rice (Alice and the Fly, Walk, Hodder and Stoughton), Clare Coombes (Definitions, Bennion Kearny), Philippa Holloway (The Half Life of Snails, Parthian Books), and most recently, Ashleigh Nugent (LOCKS, Picador), have found their first success through Pulp Idol.
This competition unearths the best new novelists in the Liverpool City Region.
After battling it out at twelve Pulp Idol Heats, our finalists go head to head at the Grand Final.
Show your support for these new writers by joining us on Friday 21st February at Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre Studio to hear our twelve finalists battle it out to be crowned Pulp Idol Champion!
Doors open at 7pm.
They have limited wheelchair access, if you are a wheelchair user please contact Jenny@writingonthewall.org.uk
Our 12 Finalists are:
Dawn Reeves – The Billionaire Heartbreaker
Angela Zhu – Untitled
Karen Sephton – Lavender
Eleanor Hall – Fizzlehurst
Stephanie Power – Shakespeareland
Julia Clayton – The Apollo of Trieste
Oliver Back – Fringe
Sarah Hinks – Bound to the Bones
Evita Akomode – Stew
Dan Melling – Untitled
Amber-Page Moss – The Lyverdeep
Sue Hooton – The Mentor
If you have any questions or queries relating to Pulp Idol, please email Jenny Dalton at jenny@writingonthewall.org.uk
Pulp Idol 2025 is funded by Arts Council England.
Drop in between 5.30pm and 7.00pm for one-to-one appraisal of scripts, stories, poems and details of publishing opportunities, performance venues, workshops and courses.
with
ELEANOR REES
Poet
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool Hope University
Shortlisted for Forward Prize
DAVE WARD
Author and poet
Editor ‘Smoke’ magazine
Nominated for Carnegie Medal
Please book in on arrival.
Each individual session usually lasts 20 minutes.