The 2023 OOB Festival will be accepting submissions starting on 1st December 2022. Submissions will be closed either when the limit of 850 submissions is reached, or by 15th December 2022. Short plays and musicals can be no longer than 15 pages and have a max run time of 15 minutes (ideal run times are …
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Established in 2020, Haywire Theatre is a company devoted to the extraordinary ordinary. We are committed to producing theatre that encapsulates the human, the relatable and the understandable behaviours that form individual experience. One example of this can be seen in our ongoing community outreach project in Flintshire, North Wales, to explore and discuss lived …
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Our 2022 members’ submission window is now closed. It will open again next Spring. If you submitted to our 2022 window, your play is currently being read by a member of the team. We will get back to you by the end of March 2023 with individual feedback and to let you know if your …
The third #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize, an annual writing competition that is open to young, underrepresented, and unpublished writers from across the UK and ROI. “I know too many talented writers that don’t always have an outlet or a means to get their work seen and hopefully #Merky Books can now be a reference …
The Writing Squad exists to create the next generation of writers in the North of England. Every two years, we recruit 30 writers aged 16-21 who live, work or study in the region and offer them workshops and 1-1 support. From there, we continue to provide creative and professional development as they begin their careers. …
Writers and budding authors can apply for one of the Academy’s limited 45 places in September 2022 split into three live teaching streams as shown below: Fifteen places in the Writing Fiction Course, which runs every Thursday, 10.00 – 12.00 Fifteen places in the Writing Nonfiction Course, which runs every Thursday, 13.00 – 15.00 Fifteen places in the Writing …
The Women Artists of the North East (WANE) Library are seeking to commission an artist or writer to develop a new text work that responds to the library collection, histories of women artists in the North East and archive practice. The WANE Library was founded in 2017 to document, archive and celebrate the legacies and …
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If you’re looking for a thoughtful and unique gift for a writer, why not treat them to London Playwrights’ Workshop membership? It costs £40 for the year and provides access to amazing resources and discounts! You can choose for your recipient to receive their gift digitally or via post in the form of a gift …
Laurel Green is an emerging playwright forging a long-desired second career after a successful, but less creative career in the corporate world. In 2021, her short plays Keeping Mum, directed by Louise Jameson and Little Things, directed by Julia Stubbs, were performed, respectively, at the Lion and Unicorn and Theatre 503, in London. Two other …
Bridge the Gap is a year-long development programme that supports 10 emerging producers each year. Stage One created Bridge the Gap to address the lack of diversity in Theatre producing. They want to support people from an ethnically diverse background, who identify as working class, are LGBTQIA+ and/or those that have a mental or physical impairment …