Are you ready to pack a massive punch into a tiny dramatic space? Mini Plays Review is officially open for submissions for our upcoming issue!
We also kindly request all authors and playwrights to share this call within your literary circles, writing groups, and creative networks to help us reach incredible new voices.
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Theme: Echoes of the Digital Age
This issue explores how human connection, conflict, identity, and memory are being rewritten in a hyper-connected yet deeply isolated world. We are looking for sharp, short scripts that capture the friction between our physical lives and our digital existence.
15 Subthemes to Inspire Your Script:
- Phantom Vibrations: The anxiety of waiting for a notification that never comes.
- The Glitch in the Routine: Comedic or absurdist takes on smart tech going off-script.
- Data Dust: Confronting a digital legacy or a past online version of oneself.
- Analog Hearts: Finding genuine, old-school intimacy in a world demanding constant presence.
- The Algorithm Knows Best: When a major life decision is dictated by predictive data.
- Ghosted: The sudden, haunting silence of an abrupt digital disappearance.
- Two Screens, One Couch: The invisible distance between two people separated by screens.
- The Deepfake: Confrontations involving stolen identity or altered reality.
- Curated Lives: The dramatic tension right after the perfect livestream stops.
- Sentience on the Line: A sharp dialogue between a human and an evolving machine.
- The Comments Section: Drama inside the ecosystem of online anonymity and trolls.
- Doomscrolling at Midnight: Consuming endless global crisis updates in the dark.
- Out of Network: The survivalist drama or freedom of being completely disconnected.
- Digital Inheritance: Disputes over a deceased loved one’s data, passwords, or cloud storage.
- The Echo Chamber: Arguments where characters can’t hear outside their programmed biases.
Submission Guidelines
- Length: Maximum of 2 pages per mini play / soliloquy / monologue.
- Format: Standard playwriting format (PDF or Word document preferred).
- Limit: Maximum of 5 submissions per playwright.
- Originality: Must be original and unproduced in print format. Simultaneous submissions are welcome (please notify us immediately if accepted elsewhere).
How to Submit
- Email: miniplaysmag@gmail.com
- Subject Line: Submission: [Play Title] – [Your Name]
- In the Body: Include a brief 50-word biography and your contact details.
Important Notes:
- There is NO publication, reading, processing, or publishing fee.
- The anthology will be published in both PDF and Paperback editions.
- A free PDF edition of the anthology will be published on our website.
- A paperback edition will be published on IngramSpark or Lulu.com.
Deadline: 31 August 2026
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