BUGGED is a fantastic new writing project for summer 2010.  This is how it works:

Launched at the Spring Thing on May 29th 2010, the project encourages you to go forth and eavesdrop, then turning your overhears into short pieces and submitting them to the competition.

Bugged encourages everyone to listen and write in response to what they hear – and you’ll be in great company, with a long list of professional writers taking part in the project. See www.bugged.org.uk for more information and Ts&Cs.

Their website encourages you to ‘ listen in to conversations and fragments of speech around you. Be discreet. Try not to get punched.’  That’s very good advice.

Eavesdropping day is July 1st, and submissions must be in before August 15th. There will then be launch events for the resulting anthology at Manchester Literature Festival and here, at the Birmingham Book Festival, in October 2010.

What are you waiting for?