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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
Hellcat accepting short film submissions – Deadline: 10 August 2025
Act Bude Content Created | Radio Theatre For The Mind’s Eye – Deadline: 7 September 2025
Underscore Cinema x BFI — A Working-Class film festival – Date: 13 September 2025
Rolling deadlines:
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
London Playwrights – The Big Summer Redraft: Zoom Meet-ups: Dates – various from 22 July 2025
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)
Squint Theatre Company: Playwriting Workshops (July & August) – Dates: July and August 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:
Greenwich Theatre: Scratch Night Artist Call Out – Deadline: before 19 July 2025
The Bee – New Platform for Working Class Writers – Deadline: none posted
Place Playwrights Circle, Bedford – Dates: various 2025
Pentabus: applications for the 2026 Jerwood Writer in Residence are now open – Deadline: 14 July 2025
SoulSpire Arts accepting submissions on theme of ‘Crossroads’ for event at The Space Theatre -Deadline: 14 July 2025
A Chronicles accepting 10 minute plays illuminating the diversity of experiences surrounding reproductive rights – Deadline: 15 July 2025
Story Engine Birmingham – Deadline: 16 July 2025
The Play Lottery – Deadline: 16 July 2025
Paper Trails Writer Residencies – Care Homes (freelance) / Edinburgh International Book Festival – Deadline: 21 July 2025
Woven Voices Prize 2025 – Deadline: 27 July 2025
Freelance Community Artist / Writer [Trans/ Non-Binary based in North of England] – Deadline: 28 July 2025
Soho Theatre – Writers Lab – Deadline: 30 July 2025
Theatre503: 503Five Open for Applications – Deadline: 31 July 2025
Fully Focused Comedy Script Callout: Female/ Non-binary writers -Deadline: 31 July 2025
Tara Theatre: Nova Playwriting Commissions 2026 – Deadline: 31 July 2025
Newham Festival of Stories: Commissions Call Out – Deadline: 1 August 2025
Northern Spirit Theatre Company: Submissions Open for “A Funny Thing Happened” – Deadline: 1 August 2025
Yale Drama Series 2026: Open for Submissions – Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open Call Writer- Scratch night call out for The Scrap – Deadline: 28 August 2025
Uninhibited: ‘Shrew Series’ Open to Submissions – Deadline: 31 August 2025
Mini Plays Review: Call for Submissions – Deadline: 15 September 2025
INK Festival 2026: Submissions Open – Deadline: 26 September 2025/ 1 October 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
Script East Midlands Monthly meet-ups, booking required – Dates: various
Support Playwrights – Summer Social – Date: 24 July 2025
Theatre Royal Stratford East: Open Day – Date: 26 July 2025
Wise Ram Theatre: Workshop – Date: 17 August 2025
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
We include writing and theatre jobs which we think will be relevant to our readers.
Literary Associate – Kiln Theatre – Deadline: 13 August 2025
No current listings.