Final call to submit your audio drama for two of the BBC Audio Drama Awards – the Imison and Tinniswood – celebrated annually and administered by the Society of Authors and Writers Guild of Great Britain.
Help us continue to celebrate the best audio drama by sending in your entries.
To be eligible, scripts will have to have been broadcast or made available online in the UK between 1 October 2024 and 31 October 2025.
This year’s winners were Isley Lynn for the Imison Award with their radio drama Tether (Producer/Director Fay Lomas for Radio 4) and Edson Burton (Tinniswood Award) for Man Friday (Directed by Mary Ward-Lowery | BBC Audio Wales and West, BBC Radio 4) who celebrated at the BBC Audio Drama Awards held in March 2025. This year’s Imison and Tinniswood Awards were announced by actor and writer, Paterson Joseph. Read the Imison and Tinniswood winners announcement, here.
Please apply here with all supporting materials by Sunday 5 October 2025.
Imison Award – £3,000
Best original script by a writer new to audio drama with the £3,000 prize sponsored by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. The 2026 judges are Committee members of the Society of Authors’ Scriptwriters Group: Connor Allen, Ian Billings, Imogen Church James Clarke, Juliet Gilkes-Romero, Sean Grundy, Robin Mukherjee and Rhiannon Tise.
Tinniswood Award – £3,000
Best original script of the year with the £3,000 prize sponsored by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). The 2026 judges are yet to be confirmed.
With thanks to:
- The Peggy Ramsay Foundation seeks to perpetuate Peggy Ramsay’s ideals, by directly helping dramatists at very different stages of experience in ways which it is determined to keep as quick and unbureaucratic as possible.
- The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) is a not-for-profit organisation started by writers for the benefit of all types of writers. Owned by its members, ALCS collects money due for secondary uses of writers’ work. It is designed to support authors and their creativity, ensure they receive fair payment and see their rights are respected. It promotes and teaches the principles of copyright and campaigns for a fair deal. It represents over 120,000 members, and since 1977 has paid around £650 million to writers.
- The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) is a trade union representing professional writers in TV, film, theatre, radio, books, comedy, poetry, animation and videogames.
