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Digital, Audio & Screen
With deadlines:
Female Voices Short Film Fund – Deadline: none specified
BFI NETWORK | Shorts School (Online) – Dates: various
Pentabus: Young Writers National (Digital Social Media Plays) – Deadline: 24 March 2025
BFI NETWORK England short film funding – Deadline: 25 March 2025
London Screenwriters’ Free Online Festival 2025 – Dates: 29 & 30 March 2025
The Comedy Unit | Noising Up! – Deadline: every Monday
The Skewer for Radio 4 seeking ideas – Deadlines: Saturdays/ Wednesdays
The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award 2025 (Audio writers based in North of England) – Deadline: 21 April 2025
UK Jewish Film Festival | Changing Perspectives Film Fund 2025 – Deadline: 21 April 2025
Fresh Words Magazine: Callout for submissions for poetry anthology – Deadline: 28 April 2025
Fresh Words Magazine:Call for Submissions: “Hello Godot” – A One-Minute Existential Play Anthology – Deadline: 5 May 2025
Submit your short film to Women X Film Festival 2025 – Deadline: 23 May 2025
BBC World Service | The International Audio Drama Competition 2026 – Deadline: 4 June 2025
Call for Submissions: Qutub Minar Review July 2025 Issue – Deadline: 20 June 2025
Rolling deadlines:
ChewBoy Productions launch new service: Cinematic Monologue Reels
Bookmark magazine TYPE! Accepting submissions of flash fiction, poetry, six-word stories, micro-plays, micro-screenplays, and illustrations – Deadline: rolling
BBC Upload – Deadline: rolling
Frequency Theatre Open to Unsolicited Script Submissions (Audio Plays Only) (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
Scenesaver – digital performance platform – Deadline: rolling
Online Courses & Workshops
Papatango Playwrights’ Studio – Date: not applicable
Royal Court Theatre – 6 Part Video Series on How to Write A Play – Date: live now
RE-INSPIRE – online coaching and mentoring programme
NEW! Write Along Sessions with London Playwrights – Dates: 19th, 22th March 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Writing Musical Theatre – Date: 20 March 2025 at 7pm
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Using Scrivener to Write Plays – Date: 27 March 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Playwriting for Beginners – Date: Starts 22 April for 5 weeks
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – The Redrafting Programme 2025 – Date: Starts 24 April 2025
Play Club is back! Our online book club for plays starts in April 2025 – Date: 24 April 2025
BBC Writers Digital Sessions for Screenwriting Students – Dates: various
New Earth academy plus- for BESEA artists – Various/ also in-person events
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
With deadlines:
The Script’s The Thing 2 – Deadline: 21 March 2025
Initial Sketches – Short Play Submissions – Deadline: 21 March 2025
Writing East Midlands (WEM) Writers’ Conference 2025 (Bursary for working class/ low income writers – Deadline: 26 March 2025
Opportunity for Writers & Storytellers – Deadline: 28 March 2025
Optik Theatre accepting submissions for Script Room (paid) – Deadline: 31 March 2025
Flawstate | Glitch Scratch Night – Deadline: 31 March 2205
The Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2025 –Deadline: 1 April 2025
Riverside Studios – Bitesize Festival Creative Callout – Deadline: 1 April 2025
VAULT Creative Arts are inviting script submissions to SANDBOX – Deadline: 2 April 2025
Ambassador Peel Playwriting Challenge 2025 – Deadline: 4 April 2025
The Women’s Prize for Playwriting – Deadline: 22 April 2025
The Oxford/42 New Writing Prize – Deadline: 30 April 2025
Divided Culture Co. | DCC Playwriting Prize 2025 – Deadline: 30 April 2025
Barnstormers Amateur Dramatic Society, Minehead, West Somerset – accepting 10-20 minute plays (unpaid) – Deadline: 30 April 2025
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show | Bite-Size Plays in association with Pleasance Theatre Trust – Deadline: 1 May 2025
Royal Court: Young Playwrights Award – Deadline: not yet posted/ just announced
The Writing Squad [16-22 year olds] – Deadline: 31 March 2025
Chesil Theatre | TakeTen New Writing Competition 2025/6 – Date: 1 June 2025
Rolling deadlines:
JDAL is inviting script submissions for its next New Writing Showcase – Deadline: rolling
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland | National Script Reading Service – Deadline: rolling
VAULT Creative Arts – open programming call – Deadline: not specified
Barons Court Theatre | The Sunday Fix – Deadline: rolling
Box of Tricks | Open Door – Deadline: rolling
Royal Court Theatre | Script Submissions – Deadline: rolling
Liverpool’s Royal Court – Stage Write Nights – Deadline: ongoing
Reflex Theatre Call for New Acts- Deadline: rolling
London Playwrights: Members’ Submission Window – Rolling Process! – Deadline: rolling
Off The Page: bi-monthly script readings at The Bridge House Theatre, Penge – Deadline: rolling
Mental Rebellion seeking writers – Deadline: not specified
Heads or Tales? Monthly Scratch Night (Scottish & Irish Writers) – Deadline: monthly events
Production Proposal Submissions – The King’s Head Theatre – Deadline: not specified
Finborough Theatre | Open Script Submissions – Deadline: rolling
Barons Court- Sunday Fix scratch night – Deadline: not specified
The Swiss Church London offering subsided space for artists – Deadline: not applicable
The New Works Playhouse accepting submissions (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
Peggy Ramsay Foundation: Grant for writers – Deadline: rolling
Tutti Creative Space: cheap rehearsal space – Deadline: not applicable
Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various
In person workshops and events
Short Courses from The Guildhall – Dates: various
Writing Well (Free workshop for 16-25 year olds, Bristol) – Date: 22 March 2025
Writers & Artists and The Open University: advice event for writers – Date: 29 March 2025
Theatre503 Writers’ Programme: Theatre, Journalism, Activism with Juliet Gilkes Romero – Date: 31 March 2025
Writing Workshop with Simon Stephens in Milan – Dates: 14 & 15 June 2025
Aberystwyth University Scriptwriting Society – Dates: various in term time (non-students welcome)
Theatre503 Writers’ Programme 2025 – Date: various from January 2025
REFinE Writing Workshops – Dates: various (in person and Zoom)
Create Writing Workshops – Dates: Various (in person and Zoom)
Scriptwriting East Midlands – Dates: various
Sign Up to the Bread & Roses Theatre Writers Membership! – Dates: not applicable/ various events
Liverpool’s Royal Court – Stage Write Nights – Dates: various
Womxn Who Make Funny Films – Dates: various
Messy Writers: Monthly London Meet-Ups – – Dates: monthly
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