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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). Opportunities are grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Events; 4) Ongoing opportunities (No deadline).
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Featured posts:
New members content: The Self-Producing Handbook – coming soon!
LPW: The Redrafting Programme Course back for 2019
New Blog Series! Interviewing Playwrights: Megan Smith
New Bog Series! Money Talks: How Playwrights Earn a Living – Matthew Gabrielli
Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Rules for Writing – for the Playwright
LPW Play Club #3 – Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Our latest opportunities Pick of the Week: Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab
Opportunities with deadlines:
Play Submissions Helper: 28 Opportunities with July deadlines – Deadline: various throughout July 2019
Angry Bear seeking short plays for charity scratch night at the Royal Court: Deadline: opens 26 July 2019 and closes once they’ve received 225 entries
The Alfred Fagon Award open for entries – Deadline: 26 July 2019
Making Films: One Month Short Films Challenge – accepting pitches – Deadline: 26 July 2019 at 1pm
Questors Theatre Student Playwriting Competition open for submissions – Deadline: 31 July 2019
Play Submissions Helper: 22 playwriting opportunities with August deadlines – Deadline: various throughout August
Curtis Brown First Novel Prize – Deadline: 1 August 2019
Danse Macabre Productions In Association with the London Horror Festival Presents the 2019 London Horror Festival Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 1 August 2019
What’s On Tom Productions seeking 15 minute plays on theme of ‘Shame’ – Deadline: 2 August 2019
Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab – Deadline: 4 August 2019
StoryFutures Academy Announces First Open-Call for Writers Room – Deadline: 19 August 2019
Women Writes Festival seeking shorts for performance at the Arcola – Deadline: 24 August 2019
Shore Scripts 2019 Feature Screenplay and TV Pilot Contests.now open for submissions (entry fee $45-$60) – Deadline: 31 May 2019 (early)31 August 2019 (final)
LPW: The Redrafting Programme Course back for 2019 – Deadline for applications: 7 September 2019
The Comedy Crowd: Chorts – accepting two minute comedy videos – Deadline: 20 September 2019
Sterts Theatre One Act Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 30 September 2019
Academy Arts Press short story competition (entry fee $15/$20) – Deadline: 1 October 2019
Ink Festival accepting submissions – Deadline: 5 October 2019
Radar Sofia: Open call out for paid creative stay – Deadline: 15 October 2019
The John Byrne Award open for applications (16-30/ Scotland) – Deadline: Monthly/ 31 January 2020
Decorating Dissidence: Call for Submissions – Essays, Reviews, Poetry, Visual Arts – Deadline: 31 March 2020
Events and workshops:
Pitlochry Festival Theatre launch Writers room – Dates: various throughout 2019
Theatre503 Rapid Response Nights – Dates: various, starting 23 January 2019
London Playwriting Lab open for applications – Deadline: none, but applications opened 1 May 2019
Papatango: adult workshops with WriteWest – Dates: various
How to Run a Theatre Workshops with Part of the Grid – Dates: various from June 2019
Theatre5013 Literary Team Takeover: 503 Studio – summer events for writers – Dates: August 5-16
An Introduction to Playwriting 2 (writing workshop in Southport) – Date: 12 August 2019
CAMP residential: Playwriting with John Burgess – Dates: 7th – 12th August 2019 (level 1) 14th – 19th August 2019 (level 2)
The Scenic Route – Creating Theatre Lab – Dates: starts 27 August 2019
LPW: The Redrafting Programme Course back for 2019 -Dates: starts 21 September 2019
Online workshops and resources:
National Theatre: New Views – playwriting programme for 14-19 year olds – Dates: various
Papatango career facilitation service – 10am -12pm alternate Tuesdays (starting 31 January 2019)
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting: Online Toolkit for writers
The Bruntwood Prize: Free livestreamed workshops for 2019 Paines Plough Insights Podcast
Stagedoor App Podcast (Bridget Minamore and Chris Campbell of the Royal Court’s Literary Office)
Access the Royal Court’s Playwrights’ Podcast
Bloomsbury Publishing: How to get your play published (view live stream of talk)
WGGB launches FREE Musical Theatre Kit
An Introduction to Screenwriting: free online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia
LPW Summer Sessions: Overcoming writers’ block (online workshop)
LPW Summer Sessions: How to write a monologue (online workshop)
LPW Summer Sessions: Promoting yourself as a writer (online workshops)
LPW Members: Online Course – Writing in Dialect: How to Listen, What to Write – Available now
LPW Members: Online Course – The Submissions Checklist
Black Lives, Black Words: Playwriting Fundamentals Course
Ongoing submissions:
Peggy Ramsay Foundation: Grant for writers – Deadline: rolling
Tutti Creative Space: cheap rehearsal space – Deadline: not applicable
Free Spirit Theatre seeking submissions for Write-Off 2019 – Deadline: none posted
Aktualise Theatre accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
Feast Theatre seeking playwrights! – Deadline: none posted
BBC Sounds launch callout for podcast drama! – Deadline: none posted
Tiny Theatre seeking submissions of short plays – Deadline: none posted
WildChild Script Call out! – Deadline: none posted
Blindspot Theatre Scratch night -Deadline: none but slots are filled on a first come first serve basis
Katzpace accepting submissions for Katzcratch – Deadline: none posted
Scriptjam accepting scripts for feedback – Deadline: rolling
The Cabot Cruising Club, Bristol looking to programme arts events – Deadline: none posted
Exploding Whale Theatre seeking submissions for their next show – Deadline: none posted
Thunder Theatre seeking submissions for 15-20 minute plays – Deadline: none posted
Mate Productions accepting applications for Writers Collective – Deadline: None posted
Manchester ADP seeking scripts to produce – Deadline: Rolling
Sparks – HighTide’s new script submission process – Deadline: Weekly, follow them on Twitter for updates
Attic Theatre seeking musicals for 2019 tour – Deadline: None posted
React Scratch inviting writers to share work at monthly scratch night – Deadline: Rolling
Drama Notebook seeking short plays for kids and teens (paid) – Deadline: None posted
Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Play Production Programme – Deadline: Ongoing
Aurora Metro Books seeks British East Asian plays for publication – Deadline: Ongoing
Middle Child Theatre seeking scripts to commission – Deadline: None posted
Newsthump looking for spoof news writers – Deadline: ongoing
Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various
Paines Plough accepting ongoing submissions – Deadline: rolling
BBC Comedy Classroom – Comedy writing resources for young people – Deadline: various
Online Masterclass with Aaron Sorkin on Screenwriting ($90) – Deadline: none posted
JW3 seeking submissions of pieces about Jewish culture – Deadline: rolling
BFI Postroom open to submissions of films and scripts from emerging filmmakers – Deadline: rolling
Opportunities to hear your play with Player Playwrights – Deadline: rolling
Playwrights Circle at the Bread & Roses – Deadline: ongoing (monthly event)
Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – Deadline: none posted
The Cockpit Theatre seeking work for scratch nights – Deadline: none posted but performances take place on the first Monday of the month.