Opportunities Weekly Round-up: 21 July 2023

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London Playwrights’ Projects

 

The Literary Series: Interviews with Literary Managers, Dramaturgs and New Work Associates – New Episodes Live NOW (Josh Elliott from Graeae Theatre// Tom Wright from The Kiln Theatre// Fleur Hebditch)

 

Pay it Forward for Playwrights: A new initiative to help support writers

  

Playwriting Real-life: London Playwrights Podcast live now! New episode – Interview with Playwright Max Wilkinson 

 

Members’ Zoom Drop-in session: share your work, meet other writers – first Wednesday of each month!

What do our members get? 


London Playwrights’ Zoom Workshops

Find out more about the full programme of workshops here. New sessions for the Autumn term coming soon!

 

NEW! In person workshop: Creating Compelling Dialogue for Film & TV with award winning writer Tom Hunsinger – BOOK NOW!

 

 

 

 


Featured Members Content

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WrAP2023 Redrafting Materials available for members to download now!

Learn with London Playwrights sessions on ‘Writing Opening Scenes’ and ‘Creating Characters’ available now

 

Full 8 sessions available now! Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure 

The LPW Guide to Formatting your Stage Play – Available to download

 

 

 

 

 


Digital Resources

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Latest News

 

Explained: How to increase your membership amount – London Playwrights

ChewBoy Productions: George Bailey on filming theatre shows

WALKING PLAYS: New app bringing London’s streets to life

DH Ensemble & Solar Bear: (Un)scripted – a series of short films focused on exploring the possibilities of working with deaf and hearing artists

Playwrights and Policy by Jane Woddis

300 Thoughts for Theatremakers: Writing for the Screen

Chewboy Productions: HARPOCRATES (or, how to run away quietly) – a short film available to watch now


Opportunities Listings 

New! New opportunities added this week are now highlighted in pink to save regular scrollers some time!


Digital & Audio & Screen 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.  

BBC Radio 4 Extra – DMs Are Open – taking submissions Deadlines: various

Underscore Studios – Script Lab for working class writers/ filmmakers Deadline: not specified/ see their newsletter

Shape Arts with TLC: Free Reads Deadline: 26 July 2023

Film Hub South West – BFI NETWORK New Voices 2023 Deadline: 23 July 2023

BFI Future Film Festival 2023 – call for submissions (£5 entry fee)- Deadline: 4 August 2023

BBC Comedy Script Partnership Project: Northern Ireland Deadline: 1 September 2023

London Playwrights’ Members: Summer Monologue Competition – Deadline: 1 September 2023

Rolling deadlines:

BBC Upload – Deadline: rolling

British Comedy Guide – Pro Video Contest Various throughout the year

SOOP Annual Short Story Contest Deadline: none posted

Box of Tricks’ PlayMakers Network- a creative home for Northern playwrights – Deadline: not applicable

New Hope Creative Group presents a new scratch night for black writers – 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

Scenesaver – digital performance platform – Deadline: rolling

Online Courses and Workshops

Kali Playwrights Forum Date: 29 June 2023 and then every two months

Paines Plough – Open Writer’s Labs Deadline: not speficied

The Writers Hour- virtual writing sprints by London Writers’ Salon – Daily

1×1 intuitive writing sessions with Sarah Congress – Dates: various

Scratch Me 2022 – Public Programme – Dates: various

Flux Writers Membership

Playwright and former Space Theatre script reader Scott Younger is offering free feedback on all plays 10 pages and under in length – Deadline: not applicable

Big Fish Productions writing group – Dates: Every Friday

Relish Theatre – Coffee & Creative Catch up – Date: Every Friday

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

NT Playwriting Masterclasses – Dates: various

City Academy: Monthly Online Writing Club – Dates: monthly, various

New Earth academy plus- for BESEA artists – Various/ also in-person events

Directing Theatre – Online workshop with Russell Lucas Date: 22 July 2023

An Introduction to Screenwriting: online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia (no longer free, subscription costs apply)

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 & Jobs

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

With deadlines:

Manchester City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries – Seeking Commisions – Deadline: 21 July 2023

Kali Discovery Programme 2023/2024 – Applications Open – Deadline: 24 July 2023

POETS OF COLOUR INCUBATOR- writers in the North of England – Deadline: 24 July 2023

Royal Exchange Young Company- recruiting Writers, Performers and Makers (14-21) – Deadline: none posted but writers workshop is 25 July 2023

Little Fish Theatre – Pick of the Vine short play festival- Deadline: 30 July 2023

Eclectic Full Contact Theater Company Announces The 1st Annual Crashbox! Festival – An International Festival for Short Live Radio Plays – Deadline: 31 July 2023

Mustapha Matura Award 2023 (25 or younger) – Deadline: 31 July 2023

The North East Playwriting Award – by the Live Theatre and the Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust Deadline: 7 August 2023

Developing your Creative Practice- new rounds opens- 1 July 2023- 10 August 2023  – Deadline: 10 August 2023

Personal Assistant to High Profile Script Writer Deadline: 10 August 2023

Yale Drama Series 2024 Competition – Call for Submissions – Deadline: 15 August 2023 (opens on 1 June 2023)

BBC Writersroom at Edinburgh Fringe Deadline: not posted/ Dates 20- 25 August 2023

The Kay Mellor Fellowship 2024 – Deadline: 29 August 2023 at 10am

Laurels Theatre | Richard Jenkinson Commission – Deadline: 31 August 2023

Ten-Minute Musicals Project 2023 – Deadline: 31 August 2023

Theatre Three 25th Annual Festival of One-Act Plays (2024) Deadline: 1 September 2023

Constellation Stage and Screen – The Woodward / Newman Award – Deadline: 1 September 2023

The Script’s The Thing! – Deadline: 22nd September 2023

INK Festival – Short Play Submissions – Deadline: 23 September 2023

Titchfield Festival Theatre – New Playwright Competition – Deadline: 30 September 2023

FOOTNOTE X COUNTERPOINTS WRITING PRIZE- for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds – Deadline: 1 October 2023

Transient Arena – Script Submissions – Deadline: 31 October 2023

Rolling & Unspecified deadlines: 

Off The Page: bi-monthly script readings at The Bridge House Theatre, Penge – Deadline: rolling

Old Red Lion Theatre – Space availabe for August and September Deadline: not specified

London Pub Theatres Magazine Seeking Review Writers Deadline: rolling

Mental Rebellion seeking writers – Deadline: not specified

No Such Thing Theatre at the Kings Head offering free feedback for playwrights – Deadline: not specified

Birmingham Rep: Victoria Wood Playwriting Prize Deadline: not yet specified, submissions open in September 2023

Scribe Playwriting Competition taking entries for 2024 competition (entry fee) – Deadline: rolling

Go Try Play Write – monthly playwriting contest – Deadline: monthly

Call for applications: Kevin Elyot Award 2023 – Deadline: not specified

Heads or Tales? Monthly Scratch Night (Scottish & Irish Writers) Deadline: monthly events

Applications open for Camden Fringe 2023 Deadline: not specified

Production Proposal Submissions – The King’s Head Theatre – Deadline: not specified

Finborough Theatre | Open Script Submissions Deadline: rolling

Anthroplay Theatre Scratch night Deadline: rolling/ monthly

Barons Court- Sunday Fix scratch night – Deadline: not specified

Royal Exchange Theatre ELDERS COMPANY opportunities Deadline: not specified

Call: Love Sharing Festival – VII edition – Deadline: not specified

Traverse Theatre First Stages Festival Deadline: not applicable

Unbound – reader-funded pitches – Deadline: none posted

Creative Hub seeking creative writing about climate change – Deadline not specified

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

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

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:

Developing a Character – Workshop with Playwright Karen Cecilia in Athens, Greece – Dates: see website

Messy Writers: Monthly London Meet-Ups – Dates: monthly

Royal Exchange Collective Membership- for under 26’s Deadline: not applicable

Blood Beats: LGBTQ+ Writers Group (Manchester) Dates: 3rd Thursday of the month in 2023

Theatre Deli London- Free workshops for emerging makers Dates: various throughout July 2023

Octagon Theatre Bolton – South Asian Heritage Month Writing Workshop – Date: 28 July 2023

Crafting Compelling Dialogue for TV & Film: A 6 Week Course with Tom Hunsinger – Starts: 31 July 2023 for 6 weeks/ Mondays

Pleasure Chapters – Free Women’s Circle Date: 1 August 2023

New Earth academy plus- for BESEA artists – Various/ also online

Manchester Screenwriting Meet Up – Dates: various (alternates between in person in  and Zoom)

BBC & NFTS – BBC Scholarships – Dates: various

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