Opportunities Weekly Round-up: 27 January 2023

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London Playwrights’ Latest Projects

 

LGBTQ+ History Month: Zoom Workshops from London Playwrights throughout February!

Pay it Forward for Playwrights: A new initiative to help support writers

  

Playwriting Real-life: London Playwrights Podcast live now! New Episode – HOW TO STOP YOUR DAY-JOB FROM KILLING YOUR CREATIVITY!

 

 

2021 Members’ Submission Window Selected Writers!

 

Members’ Zoom Drop-in session: share your work, meet other writers  – next session Wednesday 1 February 2023!

 

What do our members get? 

 

The Literary Series: Interviews with Literary Managers, Dramaturgs and New Work Associates 

Episode 1 (Stewart Pringle from the National Theatre), Episode 2 (Jackie Crichton from the Royal Lyceum), Episode 3 (Becky Latham from the RSC), Episode 4 (Suzanne Bell from the Royal Exchange) AVAILABLE NOW

Watch the filmed recordings of the performances from your own sofa!


London Playwrights’ Latest Zoom Workshops

Find out more about the full programme of workshops here.

More January 2023 workshops coming very soon!


Featured Members Content

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Learn with London Playwrights sessions on ‘Writing Opening Scenes’ and ‘Creating Characters’ available now

 

Full 8 sessions available now! Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure 

The LPW Guide to Formatting your Stage Play – Available to download

 

 

 

 

 


Digital Listings 

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Opportunities Pick of the Week: Papatango New Writing Prize 2023


Opportunities Listings 

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Digital & Audio & Screen Opportunities

We’ve listed digital opportunities divided into those with deadlines, rolling deadlines, , and online workshops. Scroll down for live performance opportunities and in person workshops.  

Mark Ravenhill’s 101 Notes on Playwriting (resource) Deadline: not applicable

Devon and Cornwall Screenwriting Group Deadline: not applicable

WGGB: Leading playwrights back new digital principles for theatre (resource) – Deadline: not applicable

The Literal Challenge | 28 Plays Later Deadline: 28 January 2023

Oxbelly | Episodic Program 2023 Deadline: 28 February 2023

Harlow Arts and Light Entertainment Society – Writer callout (radio & online) Deadline: 31 January 2023

Rianne Pictures | Rianne Reads – Deadline: opens 1 February 2023/ closes after 50 submissions

BFI Future Takes Deadline: 13 February 2023

BBC World Service | The International Radio Playwriting Competition 2023 Deadline: 12 February 2023

Crazy Cats Theatre – Flash Fiction Writing Competition Deadline: 1 February 2023

TSL Free Screenplay Contest 2023 Deadline: 28 February 2023

Rolling deadlines:

SOOP Annual Short Story Contest Deadline: none posted

Box of Tricks’ PlayMakers Network- a creative home for Northern playwrights – Deadline: not applicable

New Hope Creative Group presents a new scratch night for black writers – Deadline: rolling

Frequency Theatre Open to Unsolicited Script Submissions (Audio Plays Only) (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

New writing project for Heckington Living Radio (unpaid) – Deadline: none posted

TYPE! Accepting submissions for bookmark magazine (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

Add Your Shows and Theatre Resources to Thespie (unpaid)- Deadline: rolling

Scenesaver – digital performance platform – Deadline: rolling

Freehand Scripts – free script reading – Deadline: rolling

Online Courses and Workshops

The Writers Hour- virtual writing sprints by London Writers’ Salon – Daily

Scratch Me 2022 – Public Programme – Dates: various

Flux Writers Membership

Playwright and former Space Theatre script reader Scott Younger is offering free feedback on all plays 10 pages and under in length – Deadline: not applicable

Big Fish Productions writing group – Dates: Every Friday

Relish Theatre – Coffee & Creative Catch up – Date: Every Friday

Part of the Main: Part of the Grid back with new online workshops – Dates: various

NT Playwriting Masterclasses – Dates: various

City Academy: Monthly Online Writing Club – Dates: monthly, various

London Playwrights Lunchtime Sessions: Writing in Regional Dialect – Date: 31 January 2023

Hyphen Artist Collective – Show Up and Write – Dates: Sundays in February 2023 from the 5th

London Playwrights Monthly Members’ Zoom – FebruaryDate: 1 February 2023

Russell Lucas: One Person Show – Zoom Workshop Date: 2 February 2023

The Mono Box – An Introduction to Playwriting with Lisa Carroll – Date: Mondays from 6 February 2023

HOME | Writing for TV: The inside story of Waterloo Road – Date: 6 February 2023

LPW Online Workshops: LGBTQ+ History– Date: 7 February 2023

London Playwrights Zoom Workshops: The Redrafting Programme 2023 – Date: Starts 8 February 2023

Digital dramaturgy with idontloveyouanymore (PUSH Festival 2023) – Date: 9 February 2023

London Playwrights Zoom Workshops: TV Writing (6 week course) – Date: Starts 14 February 2023

LPW Online Workshops: LGBTQ+ Theatre- Date: 16 February 2023

London Playwrights Lunchtime Sessions : Focus on the 5 Act Structure – Date: 17 February 2023

LPW Online Workshops: LGBTQ+ Activist Theatre – Date: 21 February 2023

LPW Online Workshops: LGBTQ+ Writers Drop-in – Date: 26 February 2023

London Playwrights Lunchtime Sessions: Pitching your play Date: 2 March 2023

LPW Online Workshops: Writing Historic Drama – Date: 2 March 2023

An Introduction to Screenwriting: free online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia

LPW Members Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure  – Available now

LPW Summer Sessions: Overcoming writers’ block (online workshop) – Available now

LPW Summer Sessions: How to write a monologue (online workshop) – Available now

LPW Summer Sessions: Promoting yourself as a writer (online workshops) – Available now

LPW: The Redrafting Toolkit – Available now

LPW Members: Online Course – Writing in Dialect: How to Listen, What to Write –  Available now

LPW Members: Online Course – The Submissions Checklist – Available now

 


Live playwriting Opportunities & Jobs

Listed in order of deadline, followed those with deadlines, and workshops & events. 

With deadlines:

Cassarotto Ramsay Coffee Mornings for unrepresented writers & directors – Deadline: none specified but they start in January 2023 so apply soon!

The BBC Comedy Collective Bursary (opens 9 January) Deadline: 30 January 2023

Jermyn Street Theatre – Creative Associates Programme 2023 – Deadline: 29 January 2023

37 Plays- a new national playwriting project led by the RSC and their partner theatres – Deadline: 31 January 2023

Callout for one-act plays to be produced at Ed. Fringe – Deadline: 31 January 2023

Rosemary’s House Writing Residency – Greece Deadline: 1 February 2023

University of Southampton Vacancy: Teaching Fellow in Scriptwriting  Deadline: 2 February 2023

Papatango New Writing Prize 2023 Deadline: 5 February 2023

CALL OUT FOR THE SOCIAL MODEL. . . & MORE FESTIVAL Deadline: 5 February 2023

Emerging Writer – A Gender Euphoric Trans Musical – Deadline: 9 February 2023

The Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays is accepting plays for their 2023 festival Deadline: 28 February 2023

Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2023 – Deadline: 1 March 2023

London Library | Emerging Writers Programme Deadline: 2 March 2023

Pend Oreille Players 2023 One Act Play Festival – Deadline: 31 March 2023

The Women’s Prize for Playwriting – Paines Plough – Deadline: 17 April 2023

North Cumbria Scriptwriters | Lonely Cloud – Act Your Age – Deadline: 30 April 2023

Carlo Annoni International Playwriting Prize 2023: LBGTQ+ Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 30 April 2023

Rolling & Unspecified deadlines: 

Applications open for Camden Fringe 2023 Deadline: not specified

Production Proposal Submissions – The King’s Head Theatre – Deadline: not specified

Finborough Theatre | Open Script Submissions Deadline: rolling

Hampstead Theatre | Open Script Submissions – Deadline: rolling

Anthroplay Theatre Scratch night – Deadline: rolling/ monthly

Barons Court- Sunday Fix scratch night – Deadline: not specified

Royal Exchange Theatre ELDERS COMPANY opportunities  –Deadline: not specified

Call: Love Sharing Festival – VII edition – Deadline: not specified

Traverse Theatre First Stages Festival – Deadline: not applicable

Unbound – reader-funded pitches – Deadline: none posted

Creative Hub seeking creative writing about climate change – Deadline not specified

Fifth Word – Submit your Play (paid if produced) – Deadline: not specified

The Hope Theatre seeking plays for new programme (profit share) – Deadline: not specified

Think Shorts – Free Short film listing (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

Fearless: Danse Macabre Productions Free Script Reading for Horror Scripts (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

BBC Comedy Association plans unveiled – Deadline: not applicable

Calling members of the Neurodivergent Theatre Community – Deadline: not applicable

The Swiss Church London offering subsided space for artists – Deadline: not applicable

London Pub Theatres seeking new reviewers (unpaid) – Deadline: none posted

The New Works Playhouse accepting submissions (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

Work-in-Development Submissions for the John Thaw Studio at The Actors Centre (profit share) – Deadline: ongoing

The BCG Pro Video Contest is looking for 2 minute scripted video sketches (prize £100) – Deadline: until further notice

The Royal Court now accepting online submissions – Deadline: rolling

John Byrne Award monthly competition for creative work (prize £250) – Deadline: monthly

Brush Stroke Order now offering bursaries for script reading services – Deadline: rolling

Hampstead Theatre announces year round submission window

Peggy Ramsay Foundation: Grant for writers – Deadline: rolling

Tutti Creative Space: cheap rehearsal space – Deadline: not applicable

Newsthump looking for spoof news writers (paid) – Deadline: ongoing

Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various

Live events and in person workshops:

Blood Beats: LGBTQ+ Writers Group (Manchester) Dates: 3rd Thursday of the month in 2023

Winter Writing Day Retreat by the Sea – Date: 4 February 2023

10 Week Playwriting Course by Hannah Kennedy Dates: starts 22 March 2023

Manchester Screenwriting Meet Up – Dates: various (alternates between in person in  and Zoom)

Writing for Theatre at Granada Concierge in Spain with Sarah Grochala – Dates: not specified

Bush Theatre Masterclasses  – Dates: various (available both in person and online)

BBC & NFTS – BBC Scholarships – Dates: various

Scriptease: Scriptwriting for Stage and Screen course – Starts January 2023

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