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Graeae New Writing Festival: A Celebration of Inclusive Storytelling

January 10, 2025 / Leave a Comment / Interviewing Playwrights, Opportunities, Play Club / By

Graeae’s New Writing Festival is a two-day event focused on amplifying the voices of Deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent playwrights. Expect rehearsed readings, thought-provoking panels, and specially commissioned short plays showcasing the diversity within the disabled writing community. Highlights: Rehearsed Readings of Full-Length Plays: Jinnity by Shahid Iqbal Khan (Offies finalist, Olivier nominee) 12 Letters to My Name by …

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Seamoss Theatre looking for untold stories for scratch night

December 19, 2024 / Leave a Comment / Gift Guide, Gifts & Gear, Opportunities, Pick of the Week, Play Club / By

Seamoss Theatre are a new fringe theatre company in the E7/E17 area of East London, focussed on showcasing the weird and the untold. Their official launch event will be a scratch night fundraiser on Wednesday 5 February 2025 at the Ye Olde Rose and Crown, Walthamstow’s only theatre pub! They’re looking for untold stories – …

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Callout for Manchester-based Playwrights: International Exchange

December 12, 2024 / Leave a Comment / Digital Resources, Festival, Forms, Gift Guide, Gifts & Gear, Guest Post, Inspiration, Interviewing Playwrights, Literary Series, Money Talks, Opportunities, Pick of the Week, Play Club, Pursued By A Bear, Ticket Deals, Writing Advice / By

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 …

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

December 19, 2024 / Leave a Comment / Digital Resources, Festival, Forms, Gift Guide, Gifts & Gear, Guest Post, Inspiration, Interviewing Playwrights, Literary Series, Money Talks, Opportunities, Pick of the Week, Play Club, Pursued By A Bear, Ticket Deals, Writing Advice / By

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, …

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The Cheshire Prize for Literature 2025

December 12, 2024 / Leave a Comment / Digital Resources, Festival, Forms, Gift Guide, Gifts & Gear, Guest Post, Inspiration, Interviewing Playwrights, Literary Series, Money Talks, Opportunities, Pick of the Week, Play Club, Pursued By A Bear, Ticket Deals, Writing Advice / By

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 …

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Experimental Theater Writing Workshop – Winter 2025

December 12, 2024 / Leave a Comment / Digital Resources, Festival, Forms, Gift Guide, Gifts & Gear, Guest Post, Inspiration, Interviewing Playwrights, Literary Series, Money Talks, Opportunities, Pick of the Week, Play Club, Pursued By A Bear, Ticket Deals, Writing Advice / By

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. …

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WRITER – Buddhism podcast TAYLOR MADE ARTS

December 5, 2024 / Leave a Comment / Gift Guide, Guest Post, Inspiration, Opportunities, Play Club, Pursued By A Bear / By

We are seeking a freelance writer to join our team to work with a group of year 6 young people to research and support the development and writing of a 10-minute original audio play script which will be produced by a professional team. WRITER – Buddhism podcast The overarching content of the script is to …

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WIN a year of Dramaturgy! The London Playwrights Christmas Raffle!

November 28, 2024 / Leave a Comment / Digital Resources, Festival, Forms, Gift Guide, Gifts & Gear, Guest Post, Inspiration, Interviewing Playwrights, Literary Series, Money Talks, News, Opportunities, Pick of the Week, Play Club, Pursued By A Bear, Ticket Deals, Writing Advice / By

Take part in our Christmas Raffle for the chance to win a year of dramaturgy from London Playwrights.* Runner up prizes include Script Consulting Packages and an annual membership. GET YOUR TICKETS HERE. Cost: £2 per ticket *A year of Dramaturgy includes monthly meet-ups with a dramaturg and reading drafts of your work in between. …

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The Royal Court Theatre is hiring a New Plays Associate

November 27, 2024 / Leave a Comment / Digital Resources, Festival, Forms, Opportunities, Play Club / By

Job Summary The Royal Court Theatre is hiring a New Plays Associate to play a key role within our artistic team. Job Description This position will oversee our Open Submissions programme and engage with emerging and established playwrights. The New Plays Associate will guide a team of freelance readers, collaborate across internal departments, and foster …

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The Playwrights’ Programme – Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse

November 27, 2024 / Leave a Comment / Digital Resources, Festival, Forms, Gift Guide, Gifts & Gear, Guest Post, Inspiration, Interviewing Playwrights, Opportunities, Pick of the Week, Play Club, Pursued By A Bear, Writing Advice / By

New work is at the heart of the Everyman & Playhouse – and the Playwrights’ Programme is part of our mission to nurture, empower and champion the next generation of writers in Liverpool. It’s a free, ten-month programme led by our New Works Associate, and offers a mixture of facilitated and peer-directed sessions, masterclasses with …

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