Opportunities Weekly Round-up: 20 August 2021

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London Playwrights’ Latest News

 

ANNOUNCEMENT! London Playwrights Festival 2021 coming to the Lion & Unicorn Theatre this December!

 

 

 

 

London Playwrights Social Gathering! Don’t Send Flowers by Emily Garside at the White Bear

LPW: Tips for Staying Inspired This Summer

 

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

 

Fizzy Sherbet Podcast: showcasing plays by women writers

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

 

 

 

Latest Members Content

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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

 

 

 

 

 


Digital Listings 

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Opportunities – Pick of the Week: London Horror Festival Playwriting Competition: Call out for spooky writers!

 

 


Opportunities Listings 


Digital & Audio Opportunities

We’ve listed digital opportunities divided into those with deadlines, rolling deadlines, , and online workshops. Scroll down for live performance opportunities and in person workshops.  

With deadlines: 

The Festival of Fleeting Words – Writing Opportunity (paid) – Deadline: various

Hidden Beast Awards – Writing Opportunity (paid) – Deadline: 20 August 2021

Act Bedford – Script Submission (unpaid) – Deadline: 22 August 2021

Open Call for Creatives in Johannesburg, Bulawayo & London to join the DIGITAL SUPERPOWER! LAB (paid) – Deadline: 23 August 2021

BBC Children’s Animation – Ignite (paid) – Deadline: 1 September 2021

The Literal Challenge: Scriptly Writing – open for registration (pay what you can) – Deadline: 7 October 2021

Bitter Pill Theatre – The Painkiller Project – next window opens 6 September! (£200 prize) – Deadline: 9 September 2021 (window opens on 6 September 2021)

BBC Writersroom – TV Drama Writers’ Programme (paid) – Deadline: 13 September 2021

‘Owdyado Theatre ‘Twisted Christmas’ Writing Competition (£500 prize) – Deadline: 19 September 2021

That Sketch Show – Topical Comedy Opportunity (paid) – Deadline: 30 September 2021

Rolling deadlines:

Cooped Up Creatives recruiting new contributors for poetry and art project (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

Frequency Theatre Open to Unsolicited Script Submissions (Audio Plays Only) (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

New writing project for Heckington Living Radio (unpaid) – Deadline: none posted

TYPE! Accepting submissions for bookmark magazine (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

Add Your Shows and Theatre Resources to Thespie (unpaid)- Deadline: rolling

Online Courses and Workshops

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

Big Fish Productions writing group – Dates: Every Friday

Part of the Main: Part of the Grid back with new online workshops – Dates: various

Squint’s GET WRITING & KEEP WRITING workshops – bookings for 2021 now open – Dates: various in 2021

Underscore Studios Screenwriting Workshop with Jon Barton – Date: 15 August 2021 (50% discount for LPW readers)

Proud Haddock Workshops – Getting Your Play Commissioned: Workshop with National Theatre Dramaturg Stewart Pringle – Date: 25 August 2021

Down Stage Write: Workshop for Devon & Cornwall Writers – Writing for Bigger Stages with Mike Bartlett – Date: 26 August 2021

LPW Online Workshops: Monologue Writing – Date: 7 September 2021

LPW Online Workshops: Writing Historic Drama – Date: 11 September 2021

LPW Online Workshops: An Introduction to Musical Theatre Writing-Style and Structure – Date: 12 September 2021

LPW Online Workshops: Writing an Adaptation – Date: 14 September 2021

LPW Online Workshops: An Introduction to Musical Theatre Writing- Starting Writing! – Date: 19 September 2021

LPW Online Workshops: Playwrighting for Everyone (A 6 Week Course) – Date: starts 23 September 2021

LPW Online Workshops: LGBTQ+ Theatre – Date: 26 September 2021

LPW Online Workshops: Writing Horror for Stage! – Date: starts 4 October 2021

LPW Online Workshops: Pitching Your Play (with confidence!) – Date: 9 October 2021

LPW Online Workshops: The Redrafting Programme 2021 – Date: starts 16 October 2021

An Introduction to Screenwriting: free online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia

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

Listed in order of deadline, followed those with deadlines, and workshops & events. 

With deadlines:

Play Submissions Helper: 36 Play Submissions Opps with August deadlines – Deadlines: various throughout August 2021

Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwright Award ($5000 prize) – Deadline: 21 August 2021

Writers, The Rural Black History Project (paid) – Deadline: 22 August 2021

World Productions, BBC Writersroom and BBC Drama Commissioning – World Productions Writers’ Award – 2021 – 23 August 2021

South West Dramaturg/writer with lived experience of migration, Spilt Ink Theatre (paid) – Deadline: 25 August 2021

The University of Southampton: Green Stories Writing Competition (paid) – Deadline: 26 August 2021

London Horror Festival Playwriting Competition: Call out for spooky writers! (unpaid) – Deadline: 31 August 2021 at the stroke of midnight

Callout: Tamasha Playwrights 2021/22 (mentoring and £500 bursary) – Deadline: 31 August 2021

ABCD for Cultural Recovery project – Alternative Tours of Brighton & Hove City Centre (paid) – Deadline: 3 September 2021

Independent International Award for Improper Dramaturgy «Neem-2021. Turquoise edition» (paid) – Deadline: 5 September 2021

Listen Local Yong Writers Programme (paid) – Deadline: 5 September 2021

Owdyado Theatre – Writing Opportunity (£500 prizes) – Deadline: 19 September 2021

Stephen Joseph Theatre – Script Submissions Window now open (paid if commissioned) – Deadline: 30 September 2021

The 2022 Lancaster Playwriting Prize open for North West LGBTQAI+ writers age 16-30 (£1500 prize) – Deadline: 11 October 2021

Rolling & Unspecified deadlines: 

Fifth Word – Submit your Play (paid if produced) – Deadline: not specified

The Hope Theatre seeking plays for new programme (profit share) – Deadline: not specified

Think Shorts – Free Short film listing (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

Fearless: Danse Macabre Productions Free Script Reading for Horror Scripts (unpaid) – 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 (unpaid) – Deadline: none posted

The New Works Playhouse accepting submissions (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

Work-in-Development Submissions for the John Thaw Studio at The Actors Centre (profit share) – Deadline: ongoing

Concord Theatricals are accepting unsolicited submissions (paid) – 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

Newsthump looking for spoof news writers (paid) – Deadline: ongoing

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

Live events and in person workshops:

The Story Pilgrim: Free Storytelling Event at the Canal Cafe Theatre – Date: 19 July 2021

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

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