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Digital, Audio & Screen
With deadlines:
Female Voices Short Film Fund – Deadline: none specified
BFI NETWORK | Shorts School (Online) – Dates: various
The Comedy Unit | Noising Up! – Deadline: every Monday
The Skewer for Radio 4 seeking ideas – Deadlines: Saturdays/ Wednesdays 2025
**Film Hub North | Animation Development Lab – Deadline: 5 January 2025
New Writers Collective supported by All3Media for aspiring TV writers – Deadline: 8 January 2026
Raindance Film Festival 2026 open for submissions – Deadline: 8 Dec/ 19 Jan/ 2 March 2026
New Writers Collective supported by All3Media for aspiring TV writers – Deadline: 8 January 2026
Rolling deadlines:
**Edinburgh Screenwriting Sessions – Dates: various
**Actwrite – Deadline: rolling
Yorkshire Screenwriters | Monthly Script Feedback – Dates: various
54321…Lights Camera Made! – Deadline: rolling – 1st of every month
Script Call out – Feature Films – Deadline: none posted
ChewBoy Productions launch new service: Cinematic Monologue Reels
Bookmark magazine TYPE! Accepting submissions of flash fiction, poetry, six-word stories, micro-plays, micro-screenplays, and illustrations – Deadline: rolling
BBC Upload – Deadline: rolling
Frequency Theatre Open to Unsolicited Script Submissions (Audio Plays Only) (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
Scenesaver – digital performance platform – Deadline: rolling
Online Courses & Workshops
**New! Lecture Series from London Playwrights – Date: Various/ Starts 1 November 2025
Creative Coaching with Kimberley Andrews – Dates: flexible
National Theatre – Opportunity for Young People (14-19) – New Views Writers Room (Digital) – Dates: various
Papatango Playwrights’ Studio – Date: not applicable
Royal Court Theatre – 6 Part Video Series on How to Write A Play – Date: live now
Theatre503 Writers’ Programme: Courses, Masterclasses, and Dramaturgy –Dates: various (online and in person)
BBC Writers Digital Sessions for Screenwriting Students – Dates: various
New Earth academy plus- for BESEA artists – Various/ also in-person events
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
With deadlines:
Greenwich Theatre: 2026 SEASON: SUBMISSIONS OPEN – Deadline: not specified
**Barbican Theatre – Scratch Night – Deadline: not specified
The Bridge House Theatre in Penge is on the lookout for shows for Spring/Summer 2026 season!– Deadline: not specified
**Playhouse East seeking new work for 2026 season – Deadline: not specified
Talawa – Script Reading Service – Deadline: Opens 4 December 2025
Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse – Playwrights’ Programme – Deadline: 15 December 2025
**EL Blackwood Productions and Tightrope Theatre accepting short scripts for new writing night – Deadline: 19 December 2025
**Peripeteia Theatre Company | The Boiler Room Call-Out – Deadline: 19 December 2025
**Exeter Northcott: Elevate Writers | Annual Script Window – Deadline: 20 December 2025
Write A Play in January. WrAP is back for 2026! – Deadline: sign up by 31 December to receive the emails from 1 Jan.
**National Student Drama Festival 2026 – Deadline: 5 January 2026
Lyric Hammersmith: Bill Cashmore Award – Deadline: 6 January 2026
**Announcing the 2026 The Leah Playwriting Award – submissions are open! – Deadline: 12 January 2026 or when 400 submissions are received.
National Youth Theatre | Script School – Deadline: 19 January 2026
Jerwood Royal Court Commissioning Scheme – Deadline: 23 January 2026
SketchFest accepting Submissions – Deadline: 31 January 2026
**Verity Bargate Award back for 2026! – Deadline: 13 April 2026
Rolling deadlines:
New Hope Creative Group presents a new scratch night for black writers – Deadline: rolling
Sherman Theatre Accepting Scripts – Deadline: rolling
Jot Theatre New Writing Scratch Night and Social – Deadline: none specified
Stolen Moments | Writer Call Out – Deadline: rolling
TRY OUT YOUR SCRIPT WITH PLAYER-PLAYWRIGHTS – Deadline: rolling
JDAL is inviting script submissions for its next New Writing Showcase – Deadline: rolling
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland | National Script Reading Service – Deadline: rolling
VAULT Creative Arts – open programming call – Deadline: not specified
Barons Court Theatre | The Sunday Fix – Deadline: rolling
Box of Tricks | Open Door – Deadline: rolling
Royal Court Theatre | Script Submissions – Deadline: rolling
Liverpool’s Royal Court – Stage Write Nights – Deadline: ongoing
Reflex Theatre Call for New Acts- Deadline: rolling
London Playwrights: Members’ Submission Window – Rolling Process! – Deadline: rolling
Off The Page: bi-monthly script readings at The Bridge House Theatre, Penge – Deadline: rolling
Mental Rebellion seeking writers – Deadline: not specified
Heads or Tales? Monthly Scratch Night (Scottish & Irish Writers) – Deadline: monthly events
Production Proposal Submissions – The King’s Head Theatre – Deadline: not specified
Finborough Theatre | Open Script Submissions – Deadline: rolling
Barons Court- Sunday Fix scratch night – Deadline: not specified
The Swiss Church London offering subsided space for artists – Deadline: not applicable
The New Works Playhouse accepting submissions (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
Peggy Ramsay Foundation: Grant for writers – Deadline: rolling
Tutti Creative Space: cheap rehearsal space – Deadline: not applicable
Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various
In person workshops and events
**Deeper Learning @ the Drayton – Workshops for Creatives – Dates: 13 – 24 January 2026
New Writers’ Group For Global Talent Visa Playwrights! Dates: various
New script writing group in London led by London Playwrights’ Literary Manager (free) – Dates: every second Wednesday starts 1st October 2025
Script East Midlands Monthly meet-ups, booking required – Dates: various
Short Courses from The Guildhall – Dates: various
Roundhouse London: Creative Drop-ins – Dates: various
Aberystwyth University Scriptwriting Society – Dates: various in term time (non-students welcome)
Create Writing Workshops – Dates: Various (in person and Zoom)
Scriptwriting East Midlands – Dates: various
Sign Up to the Bread & Roses Theatre Writers Membership! – Dates: not applicable/ various events
Liverpool’s Royal Court – Stage Write Nights – Dates: various
Womxn Who Make Funny Films – Dates: various
Messy Writers: Monthly London Meet-Ups – – Dates: monthly
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