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Shepherd’s Bush, London
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Our friends @NickHernBooks are looking for five passionate, up-and-coming playwrights to join an exciting new Mentoring scheme.
Aged 18 or over, UK-based, and think you could benefit from an experienced guide?
Apply by 12 noon BST on Wednesday 1 July!
nickhernbooks.co.uk/mentorin…
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Sabrina Mahfouz and Cordelia Lynn are among mentors revealed for a scheme to support emerging playwrights by publisher @NickHernBooks
Read more 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/sabrina-…
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.@NickHernBooks has launched a programme of financial support for playwrights, warning that the theatrical ecosystem is "increasingly precarious and under threat".
Read more 👉 thestage.co.uk/news/nick-her…
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🎭 The Papatango New Writing Prize 2026 is officially open and this year it's bigger than ever!
Watch our Artistic Director George Turvey announce this year’s Prize and what we’re looking for.
Full info + submit: 👉 prize.papatango.co.uk/
#PapatangoPrize
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Nick Hern of @NickHernBooks, the independent theatre publisher, was awarded a special Judges’ Award at The Stage Awards 2026 (@TheStage) in recognition of his contribution to theatre 👇
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Congratulations to Nick Hern (@NickHernBooks), recipient of the Judges’ Award at #TheStageAwards, honouring an outstanding contribution to British theatre 🏆
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enormously lucky and grateful and proud and awed and beaming!
What a year!
Our final count for 2025 stands at seventy-eight new plays, three play collections and a screenplay.
We're so proud of this year's selection of blazing, astute and enthralling plays and to have welcomed over forty new playwrights to our list.
ALT Nick Hern Books 2026 play selection featuring seventy-eight new plays, three play collections and a screenplay.
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An ideal Christmas gift 🎁🎄
'A Year of Creative Thinking' by @jswale
Published by @NickHernBooks as a beautiful hardback featuring a copper-foiled cover, ribbon marker and illustrations throughout.
available @blackwellbooks
📖 sample to peek inside
jellybooks.com/cloud_reader/…
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We’re delighted to announce the return of Script Club with @NickHernBooks, @CardboardCitz, @CleanBrk and @Synergy_Theatre!
This event is open to members of these organisations, who have been contacted with sign up info. With thanks to the @bushtheatre for hosting Script Club.
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The two legends Rory Kinnear and Paterson Joseph will join us to launch More Than One Story, our new anthology with @NickHernBooks.
Don’t miss this special event celebrating 37 powerful monologues on homelessness and poverty.
🎟 Tickets available now: bit.ly/4mWojfN
Actors Rory Kinnear and Paterson Joseph are among the line-up for the launch of a new book from @CardboardCitz that will bring together monologues from emerging and existing writers.
👉 thestage.co.uk/news/rory-kin…
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BOOK REVIEW: A Year of Creative Thinking - 366 Daily Inspirations for Writers & Artists (Jessica Swale) @NickHernBooks
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"A perfect treat for any creative person in your life"
#AYearOfCreativeThinking ✨ wp.me/p5iPbU-bPS
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The Young Playwrights Award is making a comeback for 2026! ✍️🏆
And we're inviting anyone aged 13-18 from anywhere in the UK to send us a play for our FIRST ever national playwriting competition for young people.
From Inverness to Exeter, we’re teaming up with writing organisations across the UK to bring the Young Playwrights Award to you.
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Love the @NickHernBooks curation at @Pwrightsstudio inside @traversetheatre
🎭#Theatre #Fringe2025 #Fringe #EdFringe
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Nick Hern (@NickHernBooks) is to step back from day-to-day involvement with the publishing company he founded after more than 35 years 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/appointm…
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Nick Hern, the founder of the specialist theatre publisher @NickHernBooks, will be stepping back from his day-to-day involvement in the business 👇 ebx.sh/yw0jo2
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From the studio to the page.
Join David Adjmi and @StephensSimon in conversation at @Foyles to celebrate the release of the #Stereophonic playtext.
Get your tickets here: foyles.co.uk/events/david-ad…
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HERE WE ARE by Stephen Sondheim and David Ives will be published in May by @NickHernBooks
theatermania.com/news/stephe…
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Sondheim’s final musical Here We Are to be published whatsonstage.com/news/sondhe…
ALT Artwork shows a group of people walking down a blue road
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aaaaAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!! (gonna go back to not being on twitter now [again]) (just needed to squeal [again])
We're proud to reveal that we'll be publishing Stephen Sondheim’s final work, Here We Are, alongside its UK premiere @NationalTheatre.
Enjoy the full book and lyrics, plus a substantial essay by co-author David Ives on 'Writing with Sondheim'.
Pre-order: nickhernbooks.co.uk/here-we-…
ALT Out 22 May. Pre-order now: The first publication of Here We Are, book by David Ives, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, inspired by the films of Luis Buñuel.
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aaaaAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
(gonna go back to not being on twitter now) (just needed to squeal) (this play Slaps Prodigiously)
We're proud to announce that we'll be publishing the electrifying Stereophonic by David Adjmi, with songs by Will Butler, alongside its European premiere.
Winner of Best Play @TheTonyAwards and the most Tony-nominated play of all time.
Pre-order now: nickhernbooks.co.uk/stereoph…
ALT Out 5 Jun | Pre-order now: Stereophonic by David Adjmi.