Competitions

Bush Theatre Submission Window open until 21 January 2022

If you’re a playwright who is not currently represented by an agent, and you have a play to share with the Bush, they would love to receive it during their submissions window! The Bush is looking for playwrights that tell contemporary stories with wit, style and passion. They’re interested in voices and stories that reflect …

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Submit your script – VI International Playwriting Contest

Editorial DALYA announces the International Playwriting Contest VI, which aims to encourage playwrights in the creation of bold and powerful plays for teenagers and young adult audiences. The heart of this competition is the participation of playwrights worldwide, regardless of nationality, age or language. Writers are asked to submit a play for either category A …

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Screenplay Competition by the Watersprite International Student Film Festival

This is one for aspiring screenplay writers! This year, Watersprite International Student Film Festival are continuing their competition for student screenplays for the second year running, targeting scripts that have not yet entered production, and writers without agent representation. Their aim is to help new screenwriters develop their projects and to create a supportive process to actively …

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Open Call for Creatives in Johannesburg, Bulawayo & London to join the DIGITAL SUPERPOWER! LAB (paid)

One of two exciting pre-festival FAK’UGESI LABS 2021. Join artist and creative technologist Ling Tan from Umbrellium (UK) in this supported laboratory focused on citizen empowerment & gender safety in urban environments. If you are 18 to 24 and interested in interpreting mapped data in your own artistic medium (graphic design, data visualisation, performance based, …

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Vogue Talent Contest 2021- 14-25 year olds

Over the past three quarters of a century, the Vogue Talent Contest has helped to launch the careers of journalists, authors, poets and playwrights. Now, it’s back and bigger than ever with exciting new competition categories. This year, British Vogue is seeking out the best emerging talent across writing, photography and illustration, and the theme for 2021 is Reset and …

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Applications open for Carlo Annoni International Playwriting Prize for LGBTQ+ plays

Carlo Annoni International Playwriting Prize accepts plays on any topic affecting the LGBTQ+ community, and the promotion of diversity in love, society, politics and culture. We dedicate the 2021 Carlo Annoni Prize to all those individuals that fight to see their right to love respected both in Italy and in the world, and to those …

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MiniMusicals Writer and Composer Contest 2021

“Mini Musicals – Alone on earth“ is a contest for new short-musical-films arranged by Smofa – Skaraborgs Musical and Film Academy, Sweden. This call is open to all writers and/or composers, no matter of age, gender, place of residence or amount of experience. A Mini Musical is a short musical film which contains at least …

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Transition Stage Company – Enter Stage Write Competition (£13-£35 entry fee)

Enter Stage Write UK is open for submissions The screenwriting and playwright competition is currently open, and will close April 30th 2021, midnight. The Enter Stage Write gala will be in summer 2021, although we are not sure if we can have a live event – but the performance (whether streamed or pre-recorded) will be …

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Playwrights First competition- International submissions welcome – $1000 first place

ounded in 1993 by Carolyn French, a highly successful literary agent, Playwrights First is an organization which recognizes, rewards and advances playwrights of unusual promise. The judges of our annual contest are made up of actors, directors, producers, playwrights, teachers, authors, journalists, lawyers and business people. They believe that drama is a literary form that is fully …

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TriForce Creative Network seeking great feature film ideas

TriForce Creative Network and Greenacre Films are launching a new opportunity for writers. #ScriptSearch is a great opportunity for writers to get their feature film idea into paid development! Greenacre Films, the team behind Netflix hit Been So Long, starring Arinze Kene and Michaela Coel, are teaming up with TriForce Creative Network to find their next project. All you …

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