Festival

EAL CONTENTMENT is a 9-month artist exchange programme that will be the start of a lasting partnership between Manchester and Nanjing, both UNESCO Cities of Literature and UNESCO Cities of Lifelong Learning. Collaborations between six artists – poets, illustrators and playwrights – will create new multilingual work to be published and exhibited in both cities in …

Callout for Manchester-based Playwrights: International Exchange Read More »

The Union Theatre, in association with Off Main Stage, are looking for plays for their inaugural double-night of shorts. As part of the Union Theatre’s in-house productions, the shorts (drama and musicals) will be performed by professional actors in London and directed by industry professionals, on February 24 th and 25th . After the performances, …

Off Main Stage accepting shorts/ extracts for performance the The Union Theatre Read More »

The 2024/25 Prize has no theme. Entrants can write about anything that inspires them. There are five categories, short stories, poetry, children’s literature, scriptwriting and new for this year, Flash fiction. There are three age groups: primary, secondary and over 18’s. Entrants must live or have lived, work or have worked, studied or have studied in …

The Cheshire Prize for Literature 2025 Read More »

Experimental Theater Writing Workshop – Winter 2025 Seeking female or female-identifying experimental writers for the Experimental Theater Writing Workshop. This is a series of ten Zoom classes held Tuesday evenings from 01/07 – 03/11. Classes will consist of discussions of homework material; prompt assignments; and readings of work generated in class, culminating in final presentations. …

Experimental Theater Writing Workshop – Winter 2025 Read More »