HI~Arts is very pleased to announce a new and important extension to its highly successful critical reading project for writers, Work In Progress.

From today writers of screenplays for TV or film living in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland can submit their work for assessment and will receive back a detailed report with professional advice on areas for possible improvement and development. The project will also provide advice on promoting completed scripts for potential production.

The project is free to use, and key to its success has been the fact that writers submitting work and the assessors to the project remain anonymous to each other.

The project is open to writers over the age of 16 years, but not to those in full-time education or completing a post-graduate course in creative writing.

HI~Arts’ Writing Development Coordinator, Peter Urpeth, said: “One of the biggest problems writers face when developing new work is accessing independent and objective advice and comment on their work in progress. Such advice is real gold dust, and enables writers to examine areas of their work prior to submitting it to agents, publishers or production companies, and with the benefit of the insights of a professional reader.

“Over the last two years we have gradually built up the scope of our professional reading service, starting with fiction and poetry, we now also cover writing for children, non-fiction, poetry and screenwriting. Our readers are fully professional writers with a considerable track-record of publishing, production and of script development.  The advice and comment we provide is detailed, supportive and on-going and is fully integrated with the range of services we provide. The aim is to enable writers to develop and promote their work with confidence, and we’ll help you all the way.”

For more information, visit http://hi-arts.co.uk/work_in_progress.htm