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Digital, Audio & Screen
With deadlines:
Female Voices Short Film Fund – Deadline: none specified
BFI NETWORK | Shorts School (Online) – Dates: various
The Comedy Unit | Noising Up! – Deadline: every Monday
The Skewer for Radio 4 seeking ideas – Deadlines: Saturdays/ Wednesdays
Women X Film Festival Script Competition – Deadline: 18 April 2025
The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award 2025 (Audio writers based in North of England) – Deadline: 21 April 2025
UK Jewish Film Festival | Changing Perspectives Film Fund 2025 – Deadline: 21 April 2025
Fresh Words Magazine: Callout for submissions for poetry anthology – Deadline: 28 April 2025
Fresh Words Magazine:Call for Submissions: “Hello Godot” – A One-Minute Existential Play Anthology – Deadline: 5 May 2025
Submit your short film to Women X Film Festival 2025 – Deadline: 23 May 2025
BBC New Comedy Awards 2025 – Deadline: 25 May 2025
BBC World Service | The International Audio Drama Competition 2026 – Deadline: 4 June 2025
Call for Submissions: Qutub Minar Review July 2025 Issue – Deadline: 20 June 2025
Rolling deadlines:
ChewBoy Productions launch new service: Cinematic Monologue Reels
Bookmark magazine TYPE! Accepting submissions of flash fiction, poetry, six-word stories, micro-plays, micro-screenplays, and illustrations – Deadline: rolling
BBC Upload – Deadline: rolling
Frequency Theatre Open to Unsolicited Script Submissions (Audio Plays Only) (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
Scenesaver – digital performance platform – Deadline: rolling
Online Courses & Workshops
Papatango Playwrights’ Studio – Date: not applicable
Royal Court Theatre – 6 Part Video Series on How to Write A Play – Date: live now
Theatre503 Writers’ Programme: Courses, Masterclasses, and Dramaturgy –Dates: various (online and in person)
Covert Firmament: Introduction to writing short films course – Date: starts 14 April 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Self Producing your Play – Date: 15 April 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Promoting Yourself and Your Play – Date: 22 April 2025 at 7pm
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Playwriting for Beginners – Date: Starts 22 April for 5 weeks
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – The Redrafting Programme 2025 – Date: Starts 24 April 2025
Play Club – Online Book Club for Plays Zoom Discussion [The Crucible]- Date: 24 April 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Formatting your Play – Date: 29 April 2025
University of Manchester: Developing your playwriting craft & nurturing your voice [MA Playwriting info session] – Date: 30 April 2025
BBC Writers Digital Sessions for Screenwriting Students – Dates: various
New Earth academy plus- for BESEA artists – Various/ also in-person events
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
With deadlines:
Bread Bin Theatre Company: new writing response project – Deadline: see show dates
Queer Fest: Queer New Writing in Oxford – Deadline: 11 April 2025
Salt Circle Productions writer call out – Deadline: 14 April 2025
Writer Call-Out: Pinocchio at The Old Joint Stock! – Deadline: 20 April 2025
The Women’s Prize for Playwriting – Deadline: 22 April 2025
National Youth Theatre: StoryFirst – Script Submissions Open for Members – Deadline: 22 April 2025
The Oxford/42 New Writing Prize – Deadline: 30 April 2025
Divided Culture Co. | DCC Playwriting Prize 2025 – Deadline: 30 April 2025
Short Attention Span Theatre are looking for 10-minute plays on the theme of ABBA – Deadline: 30 April 2025
Barnstormers Amateur Dramatic Society, Minehead, West Somerset – accepting 10-20 minute plays (unpaid) – Deadline: 30 April 2025
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show | Bite-Size Plays in association with Pleasance Theatre Trust – Deadline: 1 May 2025
Live Writes Open call for North East based writers and directors – Deadline: 9 May 2025
Royal Court: Young Playwrights Award – Deadline: not yet posted/ just announced
Chesil Theatre | TakeTen New Writing Competition 2025/6- Date: 1 June 2025
Rolling deadlines:
JDAL is inviting script submissions for its next New Writing Showcase – Deadline: rolling
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland | National Script Reading Service – Deadline: rolling
VAULT Creative Arts – open programming call – Deadline: not specified
Barons Court Theatre | The Sunday Fix – Deadline: rolling
Box of Tricks | Open Door – Deadline: rolling
Royal Court Theatre | Script Submissions – Deadline: rolling
Liverpool’s Royal Court – Stage Write Nights – Deadline: ongoing
Reflex Theatre Call for New Acts- Deadline: rolling
London Playwrights: Members’ Submission Window – Rolling Process! – Deadline: rolling
Off The Page: bi-monthly script readings at The Bridge House Theatre, Penge – Deadline: rolling
Mental Rebellion seeking writers – Deadline: not specified
Heads or Tales? Monthly Scratch Night (Scottish & Irish Writers) – Deadline: monthly events
Production Proposal Submissions – The King’s Head Theatre – Deadline: not specified
Finborough Theatre | Open Script Submissions – Deadline: rolling
Barons Court- Sunday Fix scratch night – Deadline: not specified
The Swiss Church London offering subsided space for artists – Deadline: not applicable
The New Works Playhouse accepting submissions (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
Peggy Ramsay Foundation: Grant for writers – Deadline: rolling
Tutti Creative Space: cheap rehearsal space – Deadline: not applicable
Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various
In person workshops and events
Short Courses from The Guildhall – Dates: various
Theatr Clwyd | Local Artists’ Network | BBC Writers’ Q&A – Date: 15 April 2025
Writing Workshop with Simon Stephens in Milan – Dates: 14 & 15 June 2025
Aberystwyth University Scriptwriting Society – Dates: various in term time (non-students welcome)
Create Writing Workshops – Dates: Various (in person and Zoom)
Scriptwriting East Midlands – Dates: various
Sign Up to the Bread & Roses Theatre Writers Membership! – Dates: not applicable/ various events
Liverpool’s Royal Court – Stage Write Nights – Dates: various
Womxn Who Make Funny Films – Dates: various
Messy Writers: Monthly London Meet-Ups – – Dates: monthly
Writing and Theatre Jobs
We include writing and theatre jobs which we think will be relevant to our readers.
Head Judge Wanted for Riverside Studios Bitesize Festival – Deadline: 12 April 2025