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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 2025
BBC Writers Partnership: Supporting Emerging Muslim Writers – Deadline: 31 October 2025 or sooner if they receive lots of submissions
OKRE | Thriller Lab – Deadline: 7 November 2025
**Comedy Pilot Presents – Deadline: 28 November 2025
Raindance Film Festival 2026 open for submissions – Deadline: 8 Dec/ 19 Jan/ 2 March 2026
Rolling deadlines:
**Edinburgh Screenwriting Sessions – Dates: various
**Actwrite – Deadline: rolling
Yorkshire Screenwriters | Monthly Script Feedback – Dates: various
54321…Lights Camera Made! – Deadline: rolling – 1st of every month
Script Call out – Feature Films – Deadline: none posted
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
**New! Lecture Series from London Playwrights – Date: Various/ Starts 18 October 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshops – Getting Your Play Submission Ready – Date: 21 October 2025
Creative Coaching with Kimberley Andrews – Dates: flexible
National Theatre – Opportunity for Young People (14-19) – New Views Writers Room (Digital) – Dates: various
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)
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:
Wild Pages Writers Residency (Paid) – Deadline: 20 October 2025
Underbelly – Belly Scratch Night – Deadline: 24 October 2025
**Rebound Productions | Search for New Playwrights- Deadline: 31 October 2025
**CALLOUT: PSYCHONAUT SCRATCH! – Deadline: 4 November 2025
Submissions open for Brown Skinned Girls (Female BlPOC playwrights) – Deadline: 5 November 2025
Lyric Hammersmith: Bill Cashmore Award – Deadline: 6 January 2025
Rolling deadlines:
Jot Theatre New Writing Scratch Night and Social – Deadline: none specified
Stolen Moments | Writer Call Out – Deadline: rolling
TRY OUT YOUR SCRIPT WITH PLAYER-PLAYWRIGHTS – Deadline: rolling
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
**Playwrights Flashmob – Date: 24 November 2025
New Writers’ Group For Global Talent Visa Playwrights! Dates: various
New script writing group in London led by London Playwrights’ Literary Manager (free) – Dates: every second Wednesday starts 1st October 2025
Script East Midlands Monthly meet-ups, booking required – Dates: various
Short Courses from The Guildhall – Dates: various
Roundhouse London: Creative Drop-ins – Dates: various
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
**Vital Xposure seeking Literary Associate (Deaf, disabled, or neurodivergent playwrights)- Deadline: 6 November 2025
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