Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date).
Play Submissions Helper publishes contests with April deadlines – Deadline: various
MT Pockets Theatre seeking submissions for 10 Minute Play Festival (West Virginia) – Deadline: 4 April 2014
Channel 4 seeking writers for ‘Coming Up’ talent development scheme with Touchpaper – Deadline: 3 April 2014
Applications now open for the Live Theatre Playwriting course – Deadline: 6 April 2014 11 April 2014
Theatre 503 playwriting award opens for submissions on 1st March – Deadline: 31 March 2014 7 April 2014
Burbage New Writing Prize – open for submissions – Deadline: 7 April 2014
Site-Specific Commission for InTRANSIT FESTIVAL, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea – Deadline: 7 April 2014
Tiny Dog Productions seeking short plays for next Theatre Breaks Festival – Deadline: 8 April 2014
NEWSBOY seeking short plays about colonisation – Deadline: 11 April 2014
Putney Theatre Company accepting submissions of short plays – Deadline: 13 April 2014
Free Masterclass with BBC Writersroom at Curve Theatre, Leicester’s Inside Out Festival – Deadline: workshop takes place on 12 April 2014 but you need to book in advance
Page to Stage Festival accepting plays – Deadline: 31 March 2014 14 April 2014
The Nick Darke Award 2014 is open for submissions for £6000 prize – Deadline: 14 April 2014
Encompass Productions seeking 5-20min plays for ‘Bare Essentials’ – Deadline: 14 April 2014
Ticket to Write seeking one act plays about the Beatles (£20 fee) – Deadline: 18 April 2014
What’s Funny… About the Referendum on Scottish Independence? BBC accepting comedy material (15-24) – 21 April 2014
Chesil Theatre Company accepting 10 minute plays– Deadline: 25 April 2014
Introduction to short film screenwriting workshop with IdeasTap – 25 April 2014
A Friend of a Friend Productions seeking short plays about Southwark in ‘What’s Your Story?’ (Southwark-based writers only) – Deadline: 30 April 2014
Royal Society of Literature Brookleaze Grants for Writers – Deadline: 30 April 2014
East 15 playwriting competition open for submissions – Deadline: 30 April 2014
Traverse Theatre open to submissions from UK Writers – Deadline: 30 April 2014
Sixteen Feet Productions accepting short plays (Lambeth based writers only) – Deadline: 1 May 2014
Little Pieces of Gold seeking 10 minute plays on subject of Social Media – Deadline: 5 May 2014
BBC Writersroom’s Scriptroom 6 coming soon – accepting submissions of Comedy (Radio/TV/Film) – Deadline: 12 May 2014 (*Note: Submissions do not open until 28 April 2014)
BAFTA accepting scripts for comedy showcase (entry fee) – 19 May 2014
ArtsEd Short Film Scripts – a chance to get your short film produced – Deadline: 23 May 2014
Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize launched (£20 entry fee) – Deadline: 30 May 2014
Organised Chaos accepting submissions (£5 entry) – Deadline: 31 May 2014
IdeasTap accepting submissions on theme of ‘Apocalypse’ – Deadline: 13 June 2014 at 5pm
The Newspeak Theatre Company seeks writer for their writers-room – Deadline: 30 June 2014
Ongoing submissions:
Ice & Fire/ Amnesty International UK – rolling submissions for plays with human rights theme – Deadline: Ongoing
Performance Platform Opportunity, University of Greenwich – Deadline: None posted
Quids In Theatre Co seeking 40-60 minute plays for lunchtime series – Deadline: Ongoing
The Cockpit Theatre seeking work for scratch nights – No deadline posted but performances take place on the first Monday of the month through to June 2014.
ScriptSpace development workshop at The Space – Deadline: None
Shred Productions open to submissions – Deadline: None (open submissions)
Open Arts Cafe Call for Submissions – Deadline: None posted
Poppy Seed – accepting submissions of 5 minute scripts for blog – Deadline: None posted
BAREtruth Theatre looking for full length scripts – Deadline: None posted