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). Opportunities are grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week; 2) Opportunities with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Events; 4) Ongoing opportunities (no deadline).
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Pick of the Week:
Our latest opportunities Pick of the Week is: GRIT at the Royal Court
Opportunities with deadlines:
Play Submissions Helper – 40 Playwriting Contests with May (and early June) 2015 Deadlines – Various in May and June
Royal Society of Literature Brookleaze Grants for Writers Spring 2015 – Deadline: 15 May 2015
Channel 4/ Touchpaper accepting screenplay submissions for Coming Up Scheme – Deadline: 15 May 2015
Story City Theatre Residency (Leicester) – Deadline: 15 May 2015
CBBC and BBC Writersroom seeking new sketch writers – Deadline: 21 May 2015
ArtsEd seeking 10-12 min short film scripts – Deadline: 22 May 2015
WriterSlam accepting drama series submissions (synopsis & extract only) – Deadline: 22 May 2015
IdeasTap/ Invertigo seeking playwrights for rehearsed reading – Deadline: 22 May 2015
Writers wanted for Stitchin’ Fiction – Deadline: 25 May 2015
B3 TalentLab 2015 seeking minority ethnic creatives – Deadline: 26 May 2015
Kevin Spacey Foundation soon to open to applications for £10,000 Artists of Choice programme – Deadline: 29 May 2015
2015 Pint-sized Plays competition open for submissions – Deadline: 31 May 2015
Little Fish Theatre accepting short play submissions for Pick of the Vine production – Deadline: 31 May 2015
Theatre6 looking for playwrights to develop relationships – Deadline: 1 June 2015
From Page to Stage showcase for musical theatre in development – Deadline: 1 June 2015
‘Monsters on Stage’ A Call for Monologues and Short Plays (Kentucky, USA) – Deadline: 1 June 2015
Player-Playwrights Short Play Competition open for submissions (£300 prize)– Deadline: 1 June 2015
‘And Then She Said A Funny Thing…’ comedy podcast seeking submissions – Deadline: 1 June 2015
Theatre Royal Stratford East seeking New Writing Manager (Musical Theatre Initiative) – Part-Time Role – Deadline: 1 June 2015
Wanted: music/art/writing/film/anything – Deadline: 2 June 2015
2015 Bruntwood Prize Competition open to submissions – Deadline: 5 June 2015
Writer’s Digest Writing Competition (USA) – Deadline: 5 June 2015
Bare Fiction magazine open to submissions for Issue 6 – Deadline: 6 June 2015
2nd Annual Stories of SW1 Writing Competition seeking submissions (£3 entry fee, £50 prize) – Deadline: 16 June 2015
New York Television Festival accepting pilot scripts – Deadline: 26 June 2015
King’s Cross Award for New Writing from Courtyard Theatre (£10 fee, £5,000 prize) – Deadline: 30 June 2015
Roister Doister Publishing launch competition to find plays for young people – Deadline: 3 July 2015
The Ashton Group seeking 60-min one act play for ‘Finding Words’ (writers age 25 and under) – Deadline: 6 July 2015
Award for Most Promising Playwright (East Midlands writers only) – Deadline: 15 July 2015
NMI’s ‘Search for New Musicals’ Seeks Submissions ($195 entry fee) – Deadline: 15 July 2015
Verity Bargate Award 2015 (£6,000 prize) – Deadline: 31 July 2015
The Three Leaches Play Competition ($10 submission fee) – Deadline: 1 August 2015
Alfred Fagon Award 2015 open for applications from playwrights of Caribbean or African descent – Deadline 1 August 2015
Yale Drama Series Competition 2015 – Deadline: 15 August 2015
Global Playwriting Contest 2015 on Confronting Climate Change and Defying Disasters ($5,000 USD prize) – Deadline: 30 August 2015
Gillian Hush Award for Radio Drama – Deadline: 1 September 2015
StageWrite seeking 30-40 min. scripts for Bedford’s annual New Writing Festival – Deadline: 30 September 2015
Saving Endangered Species (SES) International Playwriting Prize (California, $100 prize) – Deadline: 30 November 2015
Events and workshops:
Stephen Jeffreys Weekend Playwriting Masterclass (£300 / £100 concessions) – 22-24 May 2015
Writers’ Guild Event: Meet the Agents – 1 June 2015 – 7pm
Ongoing submissions:
Oxford based filmmakers seeking short film scripts – Deadline: none posted
TreePress seeking playwrights to upload scripts for Beta Testing – Deadline: none posted
East End Literary Salon open to rolling submissions – Deadline: rolling
Orange Tea Theatre accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
Fractured Lines accepting scripts for new writing night – Deadline: rolling
Theatrelab accepting scripts – rolling submissions
Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – Deadline: none posted
Everything Theatre accepting plays for podcast readings – Deadline: none posted
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.
Shred Productions open to submissions – Deadline: None (open submissions)
Poppy Seed – accepting submissions of 5 minute scripts for blog – Deadline: None posted
COG ARTSpace call out for playwrights! – Deadline: None posted