Opportunities Weekly Round-up: 2 June 2017

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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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Our latest opportunities Pick of the Week: Full Circle Theatre launch new online radio playwriting festival for 2017

From the Archive of our Advice Column, Pursued By A Bear:  “I’m struggling to finish my first play, should I just give up?”

Opportunities with deadlines:

Play Submissions Helper – Deadline: Various throughout May

Comedians Theatre Company call for duologues for Edinburgh slot Deadline: 26 May 2017

The After School Club looking for plays with young female protagonist for production – Deadline: 28 May 2017

Player-Playwrights seek 15-minute plays on ‘them and us’ theme – Deadline Monday 29 May 2017

Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting Group open for applications – Deadline: 30 May 2017

Little Fish Theatre seeks shorts for Pick of the Vine competition ($50 payment/production) – Deadline: 31 May 2017

Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation seek LGBT historically inspired work ($500-3,000 prize) Deadline: 31 May 31, 2017

Pint-Sized Plays sought for pub performance in Tenby Festival Week – Deadline: 31 May 2017

Nick Darke Award 2017 (£2000 prize) – Deadline: 31 May 2017

Leytonstone Itch seeks 5-10 minute play for summer festival (£50 prize) – Deadline: 31 May 2017

Papatango Resident Playwright 2017 (£2000 seed commission) – Deadline:  1 June 2017 (submissions open on 22 May 2017)

Writers Avenue Theatre seeking plays for ‘The Gossip’ (18-30 year olds) – Deadline: 1 June 2017

2017 Bruntwood Prize open for submissions (cash prize + development) – Deadline:  5 June 2017 at 6pm

LGBQT Arts Review seeking new work for ‘Raising our Voices’ – Deadline: 5 June 2017

Kali war play season for South Asia women writers  – Deadline: Monday 5 June 2017 at 5pm

Hollyoaks seeking Storyliner (experience required) – Deadline: 9 June 2017

Fright Shorts: BBC Northern Ireland seeking comedy shorts with a Halloween theme – Deadline: 12 June 2017

BBC Comedy Commissioning: The Felix Dexter Bursary (BAME writers only) – Deadline: 12 June 2017 at 5pm

Threadbare Theatre’s playwriting competition seeking a play set in a pub – Deadline: 16 June 2017

Stitchin’ Fiction seeking submissions for scratch night – Deadline: 18 June 2017

Ditchling Museum seeking writer in residence (paid) – Deadline: 19 June 2017

Lancaster Words Festival short film competition open for entries (under 25’s) – Deadline: 19 June 2017

Creative Future Literary Awards open for applications (poetry and flash fiction) – Deadline: 26 June 2017

Theatrefullstop accepting submissions for carnival podcast – Deadline: 27 June 2017

Ismena Collective now auditioning young playwrights for exciting project – Deadline: 30 June 2017

Green Curtain Theatre accepting submissions for London Irish Play Festival 2017 – Deadline: 30 June 2017

US New Works of Merit seeks scripts of social significance ($25 fee, $300 prize/professional reading) – Deadline: 30 June 2017

Full Circle Radio Theatre launch new online playwriting festival for 2017– Deadline: 30 June 2017

Pint-Sized seeking 10-15 minute pieces (£75 payment for performance) – Deadline: 1 July 2017

School For Poets seeking writers and educators (paid) – Deadline: 1 July 2017

Alleyway Theatre seeks musicals/plays in memory of Maxim Mazumda for New York premiere – Deadline: 1 July 2017

Dionysian magazine accepting shorts from female-identifying playwrights – Deadline 1 July 2017

Hampstead Theatre launches Inspire: The Next Playwright Programme (age 18-25, £200 bursary) – Deadline: 2 July 2017 at midnight

Verity Bargate Award 2017 – Deadline: 5 July 2017 at 12pm

Sterts Theatre One Act Play Writing Competition 2017 (entry £7, prize £40) – Deadline: 31 July 2017

London Short Film Festival open for 2018 submissions (entry fee $6.50- $38) – Deadline: 21 April-21 August 2017

Miscellany Theatre Productions seeking love stories for My Irish Love Song project – Deadline: August (exact date TBC)

Soundwork call out for 15 minute monologues (Production and placement on website) – Deadline: 31 August 2017

Red Dragonfly new playwriting competition 2017 open for submissions – Deadline: 1 October 2017

Ashland New Plays Festival (Oregon, $15  entry, $1500 prize) – Deadline: 31 December (or when they receive 400 submissions)

Events and workshops:

Verity Bargate Award workshops – London workshops from 15 April-15 June 2017. Others around the country from Tue 18 April

Free writing workshop with Papatango winner Dawn King – Saturday 13 May 2017 and 27 May.

Bruntwood Prize 2017’s free online workshop programme –  20 and 24 May 2017

Bread and Roses Theatre Playwrights Circle meeting –  22 May from 7.30-9.30pm

Playwrights Toolbox with Paul Kalburgi at Bread and Roses   –   Friday 16 June 2017(10-6pm)

The Writers Club open for applications for July 2017 sessions (£75 a term) – no specified deadline/ sessions begin in July 2017

The John Retallack Playwriting Course (Oxford, £2500) – Deadline: 31 July 2017

The Scenic Route presents ‘Creating Theatre, an Intensive Lab'(£195/£210 cost) – Starts 21 August 2017

Three day playwriting workshop with Simon Stephens in Andalucia  15 – 19 October 2017

Writers’ Mutual writing group -currently taking place Wednesdays 11am- 1pm

Ongoing submissions:

Ugly Duck offering cheap rehearsal space in Docklands – next few months for Edinburgh Fringe

Three opportunities with Alphabetti Theatre and rolling deadlines

Theatrefullstop in call out for bi-weekly podcast script submissions – Deadline: None posted.

Newsthump looking for spoof news writers – Deadline: ongoing

Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various

London Poet seeking film makers to collaborate with – Deadline: none

Edgemar Center for the Arts (Santa Monica) seeking new work for 2017 season – Deadline: none

Batty Mama seeking writers/ artists – Deadline: none posted

Rich Gifts Theatre seeking writers – Deadline: rolling

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

Online Playwriting Course with Live Theatre (£95-£495) – Deadline: rolling

Playwrights Circle at the Bread & Roses – Deadline: ongoing (monthly event)

The Institute of Other seeking creative practitioners – Deadline: none posted

White Hart Trust Studios seeking international and foreign language theatre – Deadline: none posted

Pokfulam Rd Productions looking for playwrights and creatives – Deadline: none posted

55 Kings Contemporary Theatre Productions looking for writers – Deadline: none posted

Plane Paper Theatre call out for plays – Deadline: none posted

Theatrelab seeking scripts to perform at ‘WordPlay’ at Bath Spa University – Deadline: none posted

Londonville Lit offering reading slots – Deadline: none posted

Madam Renards Mini Fringe Festival Swindon open for applications from writers and performers – Deadline: none posted (festival takes place in 2016)

Orange Tea Theatre accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling

Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – Deadline: none posted

Everything Theatre accepting plays for podcast readings – 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.

Shred Productions open to submissions – Deadline: none (open submissions)

Poppy Seed – accepting submissions of 5 minute scripts for blog – Deadline: none posted

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