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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:
5 tips to make the most out of a writing workshop
Escaping the ‘tortured artist’ trap
LPW Online Book club – Fen by Caryl Churchill
Lyric Writing For Playwrights: An Introduction (LPW Workshop)
Writing For TV: Making the Transition From Stage To Screen (LPW Workshop)
Our latest opportunities Pick of the Week: The Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission seeking writing proposals ($15,000 commission)
From the Archive of our Advice Column, Pursued By A Bear: “My political play feels like talking heads”
Opportunities with deadlines:
University of York seeking playwright for women in science playwriting commission – Deadline: 20 October 2017
Second Sons Theatre Company seeking shorts for new writing night – Deadline: 23 October 2017
Tron Theatre seeking applications for Mayfesto Award – Deadline: 23 October 2017
Camden People’s Theatre seeks submissions for Live 7 scratch night – Deadline: 23 October 2017
Finborough Theatre seeking short plays as part of Vibrant 2017 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights – Deadline: 26 October 2017
Bush Theatre accepting scripts through open submission window – Deadline: 31 October 2017
Sanguine Theatre Accepting Submissions for Annual Project Playwright Competition – Deadline: 31 October 2017
Monday Club seeking new writing for a three day festival at The Bunker – Deadline: 31 October 2017
The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award now accepting applications – Deadline: 6 November 2017
Pokfulam Rd Productions seeks new Chinese/East Asian Stories for “Foreign Goods 3” – Deadline: 10 November 2017
The Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission seeking writing proposals ($15,000 commission) – Deadline: 11 November 2017
Hidden River Arts Review Short Play Award ($1000 Prize) – 15 November 2017
Attic Theatre Company seeking short plays for Christmas Playwrights Bizarre (£50 prize) – Deadline: 24 November 2017
Congleton Players One-Act Plays Festival open for submissions (£150 prize) – Deadline: 30 November 2017
Theatrefullstop seeking shorts for pub theatre festival – Deadline: 1 December 2017
Ashland New Plays Festival (Oregon, $15 entry, $1500 prize) – Deadline: 31 December (or when they receive 400 submissions)
The Female Gaze seeking monologues about women in film – Deadline: 8 January 2018
BBC World Service and British Council launch International Radio Playwriting Competition 2018 – Deadline 31 January 2018
Events and workshops:
October Playwrights’ Online Book Club – Fen by Caryl Churchill – Friday 20 October 2017 from 1-2pm (note: book club continues through end of the month)
Art School – A new series on how to improve and protect arts education – 26 October 2017 from 5pm-9pm
6 week playwriting workshop with Lee Anderson at the Arcola (£85 cost) – 31 October – 5 December 2017
Lyric Writing For Playwrights: An Introduction (LPW Workshop) – Saturday 11 November 2017 from 10.00am-1.00pm
Writing For TV: Making the Transition From Stage To Screen (LPW Workshop) – Saturday 11 November 2017 from 2.30-5.30pm
Bryony Kimmings November 2017 Workshop – 27th November – 1st December, 10am-4pm Monday – Friday
Writers’ Mutual writing group -currently taking place Wednesdays 11am- 1pm
Ongoing submissions:
Aurora Metro Books seeks British East Asian plays for publication – Deadline: Ongoing
TheatreLab seeking scripts for rehearsed reading – Deadline: None Posted
Target Theatre Company seeking new plays for development – Deadline: None posted
Middle Child Theatre seeking scripts to commission – Deadline: None posted
Ugly Duck offering cheap rehearsal space in Docklands – next few months for Edinburgh Fringe– Deadline: None posted
Three opportunities with Alphabetti Theatre and rolling deadlines– 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