Writer EOI Information, Season 2
Our callout for writers for our second season of Supernatural Sexuality with Dr Seabrooke is now over. Writer EOIs were closed at 12:00PM AEST (UTC+10), August 30th, 2020.
If you need help understanding this information, please contact us.
The Brief
Supernatural Sexuality with Dr Seabrooke is an fiction podcast where Dr Seabrooke, sexologist, folklorist and relationship counselor, takes calls from humans and monsters alike on her radio show, to help them with relationship and sexual problems that happen between people whose cultures and biologies can be radically different. You will be writing one of these calls, using Dr Seabrooke to explore a particular relationship issue. Each call will be approximately 500-1000 words, running for 6-8 minutes.
You can read the full writer’s brief through this link.
The Process
The Process for writers will look like the following:
Acceptance: You’ll be advised within two weeks of the EOI close date whether we’ll be offering you a role on the show’s writing staff. At this point, we’ll send you contracts and a confidentiality deed to sign.
Pitches: You, the writer, will provide us with a number of story pitches - ideas for calls you’d be interested in writing
Pitch Meeting: Pitches from all our writers will be shared at an online pitch meeting (run on our discord server in a cast&crew only channel), where we’ll use excitement around our pitches as part of our process for deciding what we’d like you to work on. (If you are unable to attend this meeting, we will work with you directly over email - but we love the energy of writers all brainstorming together so we’d love it if you could attend!)
Pitch Selection: We’ll make a final decision around which pitch we’d like you to work on, and let you know.
First Draft: You’ll go away (or work with other writers if needed) to write a full draft of the call, and send it to us for review. If you need support, you’ll be able to talk to us as producers, or other writers.
Revisions: We’ll then work with you as a writer to make any changes to the call to make your call the best it can be, or to fit in with other calls
Final Draft Approval: At the end of the revision process, we’ll accept your call script, and then ensure you are paid promptly.
We expect the entire process to occur over the course of 3-4 months. Faster is of course wonderful, however with the state of the world the way it is, we want to make sure there is space for everyone to take their time.
After this process, your call may be amended slightly once it’s incorporated into the full episode script to make sure the entire episode reads smoothly (typically this would just be the very start and end of your script).
We will make sure to pay special attention to any specific requirements you have for the callers you write, and during the casting process, we’ll do everything in our power to make sure that actors are cast to those requirements (ie black actors for black callers, etc).
Contract Agreement
Writers working for this project will work under our standard writer’s contract. You will be under a confidentiality deed until your piece is published on our show feed. We believe that writers should always own the stories they write, as such our contract is specifically a licensing agreement. This means that you will always own the copyright for your own work, and will provide us a with an exclusive license to produce your work for five years, after which this license becomes non-exclusive (ie, you may take the work you’ve produced for us and publish it in any way you see fit.
If you would like to review a copy of the contract that you will be signing, a boilerplate version of the contract can be found here.
Who Are We looking For?
For this season’s intake, we are explicitly looking for writers of colour to write for us, in order to help create opportunities for marginalised writers. You do not have to be a published writer to write for us (although you will need to provide some examples of your work). As we are a queer Australian show, we will be prioritising queer writers of colour, and writers of color based in Australia and New Zealand.
About Us
We are Passer Vulpes Productions, a duo of creative people in Melbourne, Australia, who specialise in fiction podcasts, with a strong focus on LGBTIQA+ stories. We take our work and our collaborations seriously and you can read our accessibility and safety policies here:
Link to Passer Vulpes Accessibility Policy
Link to Passer Vulpes Safety Policy
Payment
Each call completed and approved for the show will be paid AU$40.00. If you are in Australia, we can provide payment via Paypal, or direct credit to an Australian bank account. If you are overseas-based, we are only able to provide payment via Paypal.