Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date).
Bush Theatre opportunity for writers from Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority (BAME) backgrounds – none specified – but winners will be notified on 17 October 2014
Write Angles (Southend Playwriting Festival) seeking entries for 2015 (£5 entry fee, £250 prize) – Deadline: 10 October 2014
Opportunity for Professional Editorial Read of Your Work By The Literary Consultancy – Deadline: 10 October 2014
Gillian Hush Award – fully funded place on Arvon Course on writing for radio – Deadline: 13 October 2014
PlayWROUGHT #3 New Writing Programme at the Arcola (£150 participation fee) – Deadline: 15 October 2014
Give a statue a voice: talking statues public writing competition open for entries – Deadline: 17 October 2014
Origins Theatre Company accepting short plays for ‘From Page to Stage 2014′ competition (£7.50 entry fee) – Deadline: 17 October 2014 at 12 noon.
Royal Society of Literature Brookleaze Grants for Writers Autumn 2014 – Deadline: 17 October 2014
Rich Mix seeking stories of city life for Small Story/Big City – Deadline: 20 October 2014
The Peckham Pelicam seeking playwrights for ‘Etch’ Scratch Night – Deadline: 20 October 2014
London Calling and London Calling Plus short film funding – Deadline: 22 October 2014
Writer commission for Save Our Stories Project, Blackpool Council and Left Coast (£4,000 commission) – Deadline: 22 October 2014
Playwrights’ Surgery at the Mercury Theatre (Colchester) – Next session: 23 October 2014
Gatton Community Theatre seeking scripts for youth company – Deadline: 26 October 2014
Northern Film School/ IdeasTap – accepting short film scripts – Deadline: 27 October at 5pm
NTC Touring Theatre Company seeking short plays (paid) – Deadline: 29 October 2014
IdeasTap Editors Brief: accepting submissions on ‘Road Trip’ theme– Deadline: 30 October 2014
Mordue Pictures seeking writer for film project – Deadline: 31 October 2014
New York University seeking New Plays for Young Audiences – Deadline: 31 October 2014
Summer residency at Berkeley Rep (California) – Deadline: 2 November 2014
BBC Writersroom Workshop at Into Film Festival (age 15-19) – Deadline: 5 November 2014
Progressive Playwright seeking short plays for themed evenings at Tron Theatre (Glasgow), Theme: Forgiveness – Deadline: 12 November 2014
The Wagon accepting applications for comedy writing internship (paid) – Deadline: 30 November 2014 at 5pm
Proscenium Theatre Journal accepting play submissions – Deadline: 5 December 2014
SCI-FEST LA accepting submissions of short plays – Deadline: 15 December 2014
Ongoing submissions:
Fractured Lines accepting scripts for new writing night – Deadline: rolling
Theatrelab accepting scripts – rolling submissions
Mind the Gap seeking plays by British Writers for performance in NYC ($5 fee) – Deadline: None posted. Plays to be produced in November 2014
Kings Head Theatre seeking work in development for Without Decor – Deadline: none posted
Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – Deadline: none posted
Everything Theatre accepting plays for podcast readings – Deadline: none posted
Performance Platform Opportunity, University of Greenwich – Deadline: None posted
Quids In Theatre Co seeking 40-60 minute plays for lunchtime series – Deadline: Ongoing
The Cockpit Theatre seeking work for scratch nights – No deadline posted but performances take place on the first Monday of the month through to June 2014.
ScriptSpace development workshop at The Space – Deadline: None
Shred Productions open to submissions – Deadline: None (open submissions)
Open Arts Cafe Call for Submissions – Deadline: None posted
Poppy Seed – accepting submissions of 5 minute scripts for blog – Deadline: None posted
BAREtruth Theatre looking for full length scripts – Deadline: None posted
Thistledew Desert Theatre (USA) seeking monologues and radio plays – Deadline: Rolling