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).
BFI Teen Scene Script Challenge (age 16-25) – Deadline: 18 July 2014
Papatango seeking applications for Resident Playwright 2015 (BBC Performing Arts Fellowship) – Deadline: 21 July 2014
Little Pieces of Gold seeking 10 minute plays on subject of Work – Deadline: 21 July 2014
Rebel Voices Playwriting Competition (Function Factory Theatre) – plays about WWI (£10 fee) – Deadline: 30 July 2014
DVM Theatre accepting ideas for scratch night – Deadline: 31 July 2014
Sterts Theatre – one act play competition open for submissions (£6 entry) – Deadline: 31 July 2014
Tamasha seeking applications for September Scratch Night – Deadline: 1 August 2014
Alfred Fagon award 2014 open for applications from playwrights of Caribbean or African descent – Deadline: 1 August 2014
Playfest 2014 call for new plays – Deadline 1 August 2014
Mardibooks accepting one-act plays for e-book – Deadline: 1 August 2014 at 5pm
Short Back and Sides seeking short plays – Deadline: 1 August 2014
Storylining Continuing Drama workshop – one free place available – Deadline: 1 August 2014
Tutti Frutti seeking children’s writer for BBC Performing Arts Fellowship – 4 August 2014
Skylight Theatre seeking plays for Postscript series at the Drayton Arms – Deadline: 10 August 2014
Growing Stage seeking plays for young audiences for 4th Annual New Play-Reading Festival (New Jersey, USA) – Deadline: 15 August 2014
London Horror Festival seeking radio drama submissions for Stage Fright Radio Horror Competition (£2 entry fee) – Deadline: 15 August 2014
Stay Awake Theatre accepting submissions of 10 minute plays for Prism Festival (Colorado, USA) – Deadline: 20 August 2014
Hampshire County Council seeking Writer in Residence (paid) – Deadline: 22 August 2014
Freelance scriptwriters required for children’s educational project (paid) – Deadline: 22 August 2014
Funny Women 2014 Comedy Writing Awards (women writers only) – Deadline: 31 August 2014
Fractured Lines accepting monologues – Deadline: 31August 2014
Shore Screenwriting Competition (cash prize, £25-£40) – Deadline: 31 May 2014 (Earlybird deadline); 31 August (final deadline)
Rochdale Literature & Ideas Festival seeking 15 minute plays – Deadline: 1 September 2014
Lion Tamers Theatre Company seeking full length scripts for 2015 tour – Deadline: 1 September 2014
Kitchen Sink Drama: the chance to put on a production in the home of a leading theatre producer/ artistic director- Deadline: 1 September 2014
Bush Theatre – Submissions window now open – Deadline: 1 September 2014
BAFTA Rocliffe launches competition for children’s writers (entry fee) – Deadline: early bird 21 July 2014/ final 1 September 2014
Little Brother Productions offering a writer £1000 to develop television idea – Deadline: 3 October 2014
Gillian Hush Award – fully funded place on Arvon Course on writing for radio – Deadline: 13 October 2014
Ongoing submissions:
Kings Head Theatre seeking work in development for Without Decor – Deadline: none posted
Criterion new writing programme open for submissions – Deadline: none posted (but the course commences on 9 September 2014
Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – Deadline: none posted
Everything Theatre accepting plays for podcast readings – Deadline: none posted
Ice & Fire/ Amnesty International UK – rolling submissions for plays with human rights theme – Deadline: Ongoing
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