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London Playwrights’ Latest News
Advice from the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain – Writing Competition or Cut Price Commission?
Learn with London Playwrights -a new series of resources on theatre: first two sessions on ANGELS IN AMERICA and RENT available now!
Play Club 2021 (our online book club)
London Playwrights joins the Lion & Unicorn Theatre as an Associate Company
LPW Play Club 2020: The Selections – watch the 
stream of our virtual play readings now!
London Playwrights’ Latest Zoom Workshops
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Featured Blog Posts
TYPE! Q&A with the creators of new bookmark magazine
Updated! Digital Theatre Listings – great things to watch from your sofa!
PODCAST: Making It with Temi Wilkey – London Playwrights’ Collaboration with the Bush Theatre & One Fine Play
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WrAP2021! All resources still available for members (write a play in a month)
Full 8 sessions available now! Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure
The LPW Guide to Formatting your Stage Play – Available to download
Opportunities – Pick of the Week: Bitter Pill Theatre – The Painkiller Project latest submission window opens 5 July
Opportunities Listings
Digital Opportunities
We’ve listed digital opportunities divided into those with deadlines, rolling deadlines, digital resources, and online workshops. Scroll down for live performance opportunities and in person workshops. (For a listing of online streams of theatre productions, click here).
With deadlines:
The Young Vic Directors Program conducting research into innovative digital works created due to theatre closures – Deadline: 4 July 2021
Bitter Pill Theatre – The Painkiller Project latest submission window – Deadline: 8 July 2021 (window opens on 5 July 2021)
Comedy Crowd – Euros Challenge – Deadline: 11 July 2021
Screen & Story Film Festival – Screenwriting Competition – Deadline: 11 July 2021
Ocean City Radio – Short script submission for Christmas plays – Deadline: 8 August 2021
Act Bedford – Script Submission – Deadline: 22 August 2021
The Festival of Fleeting Words – Writing Opportunity – Deadline: various
Rolling deadlines:
ŠITE Productions are looking for Living Room Plays -Deadline: rolling
Calling Creative Contributors – writers, dancers, photographers, The Creative Pandemic – Deadline: rolling
Cooped Up Creatives recruiting new contributors for poetry and art project – Deadline: rolling
Director’s Cut – LockDown OpenUp – Deadline: rolling
Eclectic Full Contact Theatre seeking audio scripts for podcast – Deadline: none posted
Fable Workshop is looking for writers to create social distancing plays – Deadline: rolling
Frequency Theatre Open to Unsolicited Script Submissions (Audio Plays Only) – Deadline: rolling
Fizzy Sherbet accepting short play submissions from womxn writers for new podcast – Deadline: rolling
New writing project for Heckington Living Radio – Deadline: none posted
LifeLogues – Series of monologues based on lived experiences – Deadline: none posted
Metal Rabbit Productions looking for scripts to be read out loud over Zoom – Deadline: rolling
Monday Playreaders are looking for new scripts to be read aloud via Zoom – Every Monday
Online New Writing Nights at Dapper Sandwich – Deadline: none posted
Obsydyan Theatre seeking Caribbean and African Writers – Deadline: none posted
Playwright and former Space Theatre script reader Scott Younger is offering free feedback on all plays 10 pages and under in length – Deadline: not specified
Table Spoon Theatre accepting submissions for online publication – Deadline: ongoing
The Creative Hub seeking submissions on theme of climate crisis – Deadline: none posted
TYPE! Accepting submissions for bookmark magazine – Deadline: rolling
Add Your Shows and Theatre Resources to Thespie – Deadline: rolling
Quarantine Quill – Creative writing podcast – Deadline: rolling
Digital Resources:
300 Thoughts for Theatremakers by Russell Lucas
Access the Royal Court’s Playwrights’ Podcast
Bloomsbury Publishing: How to get your play published (view live stream of talk)
Chalk Musical Theatre Dramaturgy is a new script-reading service for musicals
Chippy Lane Productions open list of female writers
Dramaturgs’ Network Contracts Package
Every week Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival showcasing a film of performance
Financial support for arts individuals and organisations from the government
FREE 7-Day Writing Coaching Programme from Pick up your Pen
Free Q&As from Actor Awareness
Free scripts to read or use from Smith Scripts
Inverness Playwrights Writing Workshops
James McDermott – writer for hire selling zoom playwriting classes and script reports
Kindlepreneur Online Writing Courses and Resources
LPW Podcast with Temi Wilkey, One Fine Play & The Bush Theatre
Learn with London Playwrights -a new series of resources on theatre & playwriting coming soon!
New Diorama – North Star Project
NHB Playgroup: read a play for free and take part in Q&A with the writer – Every Wednesday
NHB Playgroup Q&A Podcast with John O’Donovan
Nick Hern Books launches Playscript Subscriptions
Nick Hern Books Still on the Page – offering 30% discount on play texts
NHB Playgroup Podcast with Janice Okoh
Online readings with DG Footlights celebrating new dramatic works
Papatango Library & Arts Council Advice
Podcast with Winsome Pinnock and the reasons why her play Leave Taking continues to be revived
Press release for world’s first multimedia theatre discovery platform
Professor Dan Rebellato in discussion with playwrights on youtube
Regional Fundraisers for Theatre freelancers
Resources and events for writers & artists during quarantine from Part of the Main
Sharp Scratches presents Writing in Isolation (Facebook Group)
Sherman Theatre Interval Projects
Smithscripts online scripts available to read
Space Theatre Club – watch a play online and meet up each week to discuss on zoom –Every week
Stagedoor App Podcast (Bridget Minamore and Chris Campbell of the Royal Court’s Literary Office)
Stage Door Live – episode 8 on access and inclusion
Talawa- One on one Zoom meetings for Black British Writers
The Goats Theatre Company presents new short plays and poems in their podcast
Underscore Studios launch project to address class imbalance in the arts
WGGB launches FREE Musical Theatre Kit
We Exist: Online LGBT+ Open Writing and Creative Space
Women & Theatre podcast series exploring women and work
Writers warm-up every Mon/Fri at 10:15am by Playwrights’ Workshop (not affiliated with LPW)
Writing Resources from The Bruntwood Prize
Online Courses and Workshops
Big Fish Productions writing group – Dates: Every Friday
Part of the Main: Part of the Grid back with new online workshops – Dates: various
Bush Theatre Masterclasses – Dates: various (available both in person and online)
Squint’s GET WRITING & KEEP WRITING workshops – bookings for 2021 now open – Dates: various in 2021 (we will also be including individual listings in the round-up)
Chalk Musical Theatre Dramaturgy: Writers of Hadestown, Six and Fun Home join workshop series – Dates: various between June and September 2021 5.30pm – 7.30pm
LPW Online Workshops: Crowdfunding your project with Grace O’Keefe from Greenlit – Date: 13 July 2021
LPW Online Workshops: Making an Impact in Your Opening Scene – Date: 24 July 2021
BBC Academy – Production Unlocked – Date: July 2021
An Introduction to Screenwriting: free online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia
New Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure -Live now
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
Squint’s GET WRITING and KEEP WRITING online workshops now booking – Dates: various
Live playwriting Opportunities
Listed in order of deadline, followed those with deadlines, and workshops & events.
With deadlines:
Play Submissions Helper: 35 Play Submissions Opps with June deadlines – Deadline: various throughout June 2021
Sky Comedy REP Writers programme – Scriptwriting Competition – Deadline: 28 June 2021
Graeae Theatre – Script Submission Window – Deadline: 30 June 2021
Cimientos 2022 – Script Submission Window Open – Deadline: 30 June 2021
Writers and Artists Commissions, Bolton Library & Museum Services – Deadline: 2 July 2021
Performers for Choice – Callout for Writers/ Performers/ Artists – Deadline: 2 July 2021
Engine Room- Omnibus Theatre scratch night – Deadline: 2 July 2021
Tameside Creative Community- looking for a Manchester based playwright – Deadline: 5 July 2021
Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Script Starter Programme – Deadline: 7 July 2021
Element Pictures, BBC Writersroom and BBC Drama Commissioning – Element Pictures NI Writers Award 2021 – Deadline: 8 July 2021
Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation- funds for performing arts available – Deadline: 9 July 2021
Sustainability First 2021 Art and Writing Prizes are now open for applications – Deadline: 10 July 2021
Screen & Story Film Festival – Screenwriting Competition – Deadline: 11 July 2021
Submissions open for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting – Deadline: 12 July 2021
Bluestocking Theatre – Short Play Submissions – Deadline: 16 July 2021
Anthroplay & Escape Bar – Escape Through Words! A Scratch Night – Writing Opportunity – Deadline 17 July 2021
Shook – Writer Submissions – Deadline: 18 July 2021
GO CREATE! – Script Opportunity – Deadline: 19 July 2021
Applications for VAULT Festival 2022 now open! – Deadline: 19 July 2021 early bird/ 16 2021 August general
Pleasance: Popcorn New Writing Award 2021 – Deadline: 28 June 2021
Little Fish Theatre accepting scripts for short play competition – Deadline: 31 July 2021
Thornhill Theatre Space is seeking submissions for their 2nd Annual Award Winning World-Wide Fringe Festival – Deadline: none posted but the festival takes place in August
Optik Theatre callout for writers for Script Room – Deadline: 1 August 2021
Yale Drama Series 2022 open for entries from 1 June 2021 – Deadline: 15 August 2021
The University of Southampton: Green Stories Writing Competition – Deadline: 26 August 2021
Independent International Award for Improper Dramaturgy «Neem-2021. Turquoise edition» – Deadline: 5 September 2021
Stephen Joseph Theatre – Script Submissions Window now open – Deadline: 30 September 2021
Rolling & Unspecified deadlines:
The Hope Theatre seeking plays for new programme – Deadline: not specified
Think Shorts – Free Short film listing – Deadline: rolling
Fearless: Danse Macabre Productions Free Script Reading for Horror Scripts – Deadline: rolling
BBC Comedy Association plans unveiled – Deadline: not applicable
Calling members of the Neurodivergent Theatre Community – Deadline: not applicable
The Swiss Church London offering subsided space for artists – Deadline: not applicable
London Pub Theatres seeking new reviewers – Deadline: none posted
The New Works Playhouse accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
Sapphic Voices are looking for women playwrights for a radio slot – Deadline: none posted
StageLaunch a brand-new website connecting indie/unpublished playwrights – Deadline: not applicable
Eclectic Full Contact Theatre interested in developing a stable of writers -Deadline: ongoing
Work-in-Development Submissions for the John Thaw Studio at The Actors Centre – Deadline: ongoing
Write Protect looking for proven script consultants to work on paid submissions – Deadline: none posted
Concord Theatricals are accepting unsolicited submissions – Deadline: ongoing
The BCG Pro Video Contest is looking for 2 minute scripted video sketches (prize £100) – Deadline: until further notice
The Royal Court now accepting online submissions – Deadline: rolling
John Byrne Award monthly competition for creative work (prize £250) – Deadline: monthly
Brush Stroke Order now offering bursaries for script reading services – Deadline: rolling
Hampstead Theatre announces year round submission window
Peggy Ramsay Foundation: Grant for writers – Deadline: rolling
Tutti Creative Space: cheap rehearsal space – Deadline: not applicable
Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Play Production Programme – Deadline: Ongoing
Newsthump looking for spoof news writers – Deadline: ongoing
Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various
Live events and in person workshops:
Bush Theatre Masterclasses – Dates: various (available both in person and online)
Oxford Playwriting with John Retallack: Applications open for 2021/22 courses – Dates: courses start October 2021
BBC & NFTS – BBC Scholarships – Dates: various