We need YOU! Become a member today for less than £4 and help us to continue our work!
Find out more here!
*Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! *
Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities and news…
London Playwrights’ Latest News
*Members Drop-In Zoom Playwriting Session takes place Wednesday 6th October at 7pm (no extra cost, no need to book!)*
Play Club 2021 – Selected Short Plays and Writers Announced!
ANNOUNCEMENT! London Playwrights Festival 2021 coming to the Lion & Unicorn Theatre this December!
Advice from the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain – Writing Competition or Cut Price Commission?
Learn with London Playwrights -a new series of resources on theatre: first two sessions on ANGELS IN AMERICA and RENT available now!
Play Club 2021 (our online book club)
London Playwrights joins the Lion & Unicorn Theatre as an Associate Company
LPW Play Club 2020: The Selections – watch the 
stream of our virtual play readings now!
Member Productions
London Playwrights’ Latest Zoom Workshops
Click on the images to learn more or find out more about the full programme of workshops here.
Featured Blog Posts
London Playwrights interview the creators of Rainer at the Arcola
Fizzy Sherbet – Live or Online? That is the Question: Platforming new writing during a global pandemic – and creating space for voices to be heard
SOPHIE the play by Emily Curtis & Sophie Potter
TYPE! Q&A with the creators of new bookmark magazine
Updated! Digital Theatre Listings – great things to watch from your sofa!
PODCAST: Making It with Temi Wilkey – London Playwrights’ Collaboration with the Bush Theatre & One Fine Play
Latest Members Content
Click here to join up and get access to this content and much more! It costs just £3.63 per month!
WrAP2021! All resources still available for members (write a play in a month)
Full 8 sessions available now! Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure
The LPW Guide to Formatting your Stage Play – Available to download
Digital Listings
Click the images for details of digital resources, online streams, podcasts, and more!
Opportunities – Pick of the Week: Submissions Open for Questors Theatre Festival of New Theatre
Opportunities Listings
Digital & Audio & Screen Opportunities
We’ve listed digital opportunities divided into those with deadlines, rolling deadlines, , and online workshops. Scroll down for live performance opportunities and in person workshops.
With deadlines:
Writing Development Manager, Writing on the Wall (paid) – Deadline: 3 October 2021
Comedy Script Writers, Rifco Theatre (paid) – Deadline: 4 October 2021
The Literal Challenge: Scriptly Writing – open for registration (pay what you can) – Deadline: 7 October 2021
Scriptwriter, Six to Start – Deadline: 27 September 2021
That Sketch Show – Topical Comedy Opportunity (paid) – Deadline: 30 September 2021
Channel 4 – Screenwriting Course – Deadline: 1 October 2021
BBC Writersroom – The Break: Series 6 – Coventry (paid) – Deadline 22 October 2021
Bitter Pill Theatre – The Painkiller Project (£250 prize) – Deadline 4 November 2021
Mark Ravenhill’s 101 Notes on Playwriting (resource) – Deadline: not applicable
WGGB: Leading playwrights back new digital principles for theatre (resource) – Deadline: not applicable
Rolling deadlines:
Cooped Up Creatives recruiting new contributors for poetry and art project (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
Frequency Theatre Open to Unsolicited Script Submissions (Audio Plays Only) (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
New writing project for Heckington Living Radio (unpaid) – Deadline: none posted
TYPE! Accepting submissions for bookmark magazine (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
Add Your Shows and Theatre Resources to Thespie (unpaid)- Deadline: rolling
Scenesaver – digital performance platform – Deadline: rolling
Online Courses and Workshops
Playwright and former Space Theatre script reader Scott Younger is offering free feedback on all plays 10 pages and under in length – Deadline: not specified
Big Fish Productions writing group – Dates: Every Friday
Part of the Main: Part of the Grid back with new online workshops – Dates: various
Squint’s GET WRITING & KEEP WRITING workshops – bookings for 2021 now open – Dates: various in 2021
NT Playwriting Masterclasses – Dates: various
LPW Online Workshops: Writing Horror for Stage! – Date: starts 4 October 2021
New! London Playwrights Monthly Zoom Drop-in for members (no extra cost!) – First session – 6 October 2021
LPW Online Workshops: Pitching Your Play (with confidence!) – Date: 9 October 2021
LPW Online Workshops: The Redrafting Programme 2021 – Date: starts 16 October 2021
An Introduction to Screenwriting: free online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia
LPW Members Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure – Available now
LPW Summer Sessions: Overcoming writers’ block (online workshop) – Available now
LPW Summer Sessions: How to write a monologue (online workshop) – Available now
LPW Summer Sessions: Promoting yourself as a writer (online workshops) – Available now
LPW: The Redrafting Toolkit – Available now
LPW Members: Online Course – Writing in Dialect: How to Listen, What to Write – Available now
LPW Members: Online Course – The Submissions Checklist – Available now
Live playwriting Opportunities
Listed in order of deadline, followed those with deadlines, and workshops & events.
With deadlines:
Play Submissions Helper: 35 Play Submissions Opps with September deadlines – Deadlines: various throughout September 2021
Assistant to 3 Literary Agents, C&W – Deadline: 1 October 2021
The Queens of Cups: New Moon Monologues – accepting submissions on the theme of “Something Wicked This Way Comes” – Deadline: 6 October 2021
The 2022 Lancaster Playwriting Prize open for North West LGBTQAI+ writers age 16-30 (£1500 prize) – Deadline: 11 October 2021
Open call out for Runt performance art and gallery night – Deadline: 14 October 2021
13 Months Theatre looking for new work for scratch night – Deadline: 15 October 2021
NHS Heroes Casualty Writing Contest – Deadline: 20 October 2021
Putney Theatre New Writing Festival accepting scripts (unpaid) – Deadline: 25 November 2021
Titchfield Playwriting Competition (£1000 prize) – Deadline: 30 November 2021
Submissions Open for Questors Theatre Festival of New Theatre – Deadline: 17 December 2021
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting returns in 2022! – Deadline: 6 June 2022
Rolling & Unspecified deadlines:
Fifth Word – Submit your Play (paid if produced) – Deadline: not specified
The Hope Theatre seeking plays for new programme (profit share) – Deadline: not specified
Think Shorts – Free Short film listing (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
Fearless: Danse Macabre Productions Free Script Reading for Horror Scripts (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
BBC Comedy Association plans unveiled – Deadline: not applicable
Calling members of the Neurodivergent Theatre Community – Deadline: not applicable
The Swiss Church London offering subsided space for artists – Deadline: not applicable
London Pub Theatres seeking new reviewers (unpaid) – Deadline: none posted
The New Works Playhouse accepting submissions (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
Work-in-Development Submissions for the John Thaw Studio at The Actors Centre (profit share) – Deadline: ongoing
Concord Theatricals are accepting unsolicited submissions (paid) – Deadline: ongoing
The BCG Pro Video Contest is looking for 2 minute scripted video sketches (prize £100) – Deadline: until further notice
The Royal Court now accepting online submissions – Deadline: rolling
John Byrne Award monthly competition for creative work (prize £250) – Deadline: monthly
Brush Stroke Order now offering bursaries for script reading services – Deadline: rolling
Hampstead Theatre announces year round submission window
Peggy Ramsay Foundation: Grant for writers – Deadline: rolling
Tutti Creative Space: cheap rehearsal space – Deadline: not applicable
Newsthump looking for spoof news writers (paid) – Deadline: ongoing
Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various
Live events and in person workshops:
The Story Pilgrim: Free Storytelling Event at the Canal Cafe Theatre – Date: 19 July 2021
Bush Theatre Masterclasses – Dates: various (available both in person and online)
Oxford Playwriting with John Retallack: Applications open for 2021/22 courses – Dates: courses start October 2021
BBC & NFTS – BBC Scholarships – Dates: various