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).
Rosebery Management accepting short film scripts for 30th anniversary – Deadline: none posted
New York Television Festival at BAFTA Forum – Deadline: event scheduled for 25 April 2014
Chesil Theatre Company accepting 10 minute plays– Deadline: 25 April 2014
Introduction to short film screenwriting workshop with IdeasTap – Deadline: 25 April 2014
New Perspectives Theatre seeks playwright for rural theatre research project – Deadline: 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
Play Submissions Helper publishes contests with May (and late-April) deadlines – Deadlines: May (and late April)
Sixteen Feet Productions accepting short plays (Lambeth based writers only) – Deadline: 1 May 2014
Bare Fiction Magazine accepting submissions of short plays for June 2014 issue – Deadline: 3 May 2014
Little Pieces of Gold seeking 10 minute plays on subject of Social Media – Deadline: 5 May 2014
Sketch submissions sought for Behind the Bikeshed – Deadline: 5 May 2014
DVM Theatre accepting ideas for scratch night – Deadline: 9 May 2014
Tamasha seeking submissions for scratch night – Deadline: 9 May 2014
Introduction to Playwriting Workshop with Papatango and Ideastap – Deadline: 9 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) – Deadline: 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
BBC Writersroom/ IdeasTap writing workshop – Deadline: 30 May 2014
Organised Chaos accepting submissions (£5 entry) – Deadline: 31 May 2014
Pint-sized Plays 2014 – open for submissions (entry fee)- Deadline: 31 May 2014
Time Zone Theatre Company seeking proposals for full-length plays inspired by Karl Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind (£1000 fee for writer) – Deadline: 4 June 2014
Menagerie seeking submissions for One Page Play Competition at Hotbed 2014 – Deadline: 13 June 2014 at 5pm
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
2013 Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award– Deadline: 1 July 2014
2014 William Saroyan Prize for Human Rights / Social Justice ($10,000 prize, $20 entry fee) – Deadline: 15 July 2014
Alfred Fagon award 2014 open for applications from playwrights of Caribbean or African descent – Deadline: 1 August 2014
Yale Drama Series Competition 2014 – Deadline 15 August 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