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: 2016 Papatango Award – with extra £6000 award!
This week in our advice column: I’m dyslexic and no one will take my work seriously
Coming up with London Playwrights’ Workshop:
Your Self-Producing Toolkit: A day-long introduction
Re-drafting Your Play – with Kimberley Andrews
Spring Workshops with London Playwrights’ Blog
Opportunities with deadlines:
Bread & Roses seeking shows for May 2016 – Deadline: none posted, but time is of the essence!
RSC seeking deputy literary manager (jobs) – Deadline: 22 January 2016
CCBC Anim8 – Animation Pilot Scheme Open for Submissions – Deadline: 22 January 2016
Red Planet Prize 2016 – Launched! – Deadline: 22 January 2016 (Submissions open on 4 January 2016) –
Development Lab at the Lyric Hammersmith (16-25 year olds) – Deadline: 25 January 2016
Future C U R I O S Film Lab (open to 16 to 24 year olds) – Deadline: 25 January 2016
Brockley Jack accepting submissions for Write Now 7 – Deadline: 29 January 2016
29 Plays Later returns: a playwriting challenge for February 2016 – Deadline: 29 January 2016
Drip Action Theatre Company seeking submissions for 2016 Arundel Festival Theatre Trail (paid) – Deadline: 31 January 2016
‘Writing Places’ Writer in Residence at Greenway – Deadline: 31 January 2016
Book Music & Lyrics accepting applications for First Year Workshops for Librettists and Lyricists – Deadline: 31 January 2016
Talawa currently open to script submissions from Black writers – Deadline: 31 January 2016
“Scratch it!” with Tigz Theatre seeking 20 minute scratch performances on LGBT Themes – Deadline: 31 January 2016
2016 Saroyan/Paul Human Rights Playwriting Prize ($10,000 prize, $20 entry fee) – Deadline: 1 February 2016
Sheer Height Theatre seeking submissions for Women Redressed – Deadline: 5 February 2016
Soggy Brass @ Southwark Playhouse open for submissions (paid) – Deadline: 7 February 2016
Call for submissions for radical ideas at Rich Mix – Deadline: 10 February 2016
James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2016 open to submissions from theatres and agents (£10,000 prize) – Deadline: 12 February 2016
HighTide accepting submissions for First Commissions attachment scheme – Deadline: 14 February 2016 at 6pm
HighTide accepting submissions of plays for 4 weeks only- Deadline: 14 February 2016 at 6pm (Note: this is a separate opportunity from the one listed above)
Stitchin’ Fiction – call for submissions for rehearsed readings – Deadline 14 February 2016 at midnight
Lyric Hammersmith Young Harts Festival accepting submissions (10-25 year olds) – Deadline: 19 February 2016
Etch Theatre seeking submissions for a Festival of New Writing – Deadline: 14 February 2016
First Break Writing Competition at the Oldham Coliseum – Deadline: 22 February 2016
Octagon Prize for Dramatic Monologues – Deadline: 26 February 2016
Nickelodeon Writing Program – Open for Submissions – Deadline: 28 February 2016
Drift Shop accepting submissions of short pieces of writing for scratch night – Deadline: 28 February 2016
Theatre503 Playwriting Award returning in 2016 – Deadline: 29 February 2016
Rebel Without Crew Films seeking shorts for production (female writers only) – Deadline: 29 February 2016
New Competition Launched with Drama Centre London, Bush Theatre, Oberon Books and Partners – Deadline: 1 March 2016 (entries open 15 February 2016)
Sky or the Bird seeking writers for The Adults Adventure Playground (Calais Benefit) – Deadline: 2 March 2016
Windsor Fringe – Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing 2016 – Deadline: 5 March 2016
Sky Academy Arts Scholarships – Theatre & Comedy (18-30 year olds) – Deadline: 10 March 2016
Sedos seeking 10 minute scripts for production in London & Edinburgh (£5 entry fee) – Deadline: 11 March 2016
‘About Love’ Festival of short plays call for submissions (Canada $10 entry fee/ $150 prize – Deadline: 20 March 2016
Blue Skies Workshops for writers from Sky or the Bird – Deadline: 31 March 2016
The Production Exchange seeking play submissions for development – Deadline: 31 March 2016
2016 Papatango Prize Opens – with extra £6000 award! – Deadline: 31 March 2016
University of Wolverhampton accepting proposals for POP Drama – Deadline: 31 March 2016
Nick Darke Writers’ Award 2016 open for entries – Deadline: 30 May 2016
ShowBiz Shorts Playwriting Contest (Los Angeles) – Deadline: 30 May 2016
365 Women A Year Playwriting Project open to submissions throughout 2016 – Deadline: 31 December 2016
Events and workshops:
Morning writing workshops with Write & Shine – 14 January, 21 January, & 28 January (separate events)
London Playwrights’ Workshop: Your Self-Producing Toolkit: A day-long introduction – Saturday 23 January 2016 from 10.30am – 5pm
Workshops with ‘Tiny Women Brains’ Comedy Festival – 29-31 January 2016
Playwriting Workshop with Jennifer Farmer at the Bishopsgate Institute (Classes take place on Mondays 6.30pm – 8.30pm, 1 February – 7 March 2016 & Saturday 27 February, 10.30am – 2.30pm)
‘DAT Day’ meet and greet at the Drayton Arms – 1 February 2016
London Playwrights’ Workshop: Re-drafting your play with Kimberley Andrews – Starts 4 February 2016
Free Online Screenwriting Course with University of East Anglia, Creative Skillset and Future Learn – Starts on 29 February 2016
London Playwrights’ Workshop: INTENSIVE WORKSHOP – Finding Inspiration and Developing your Idea – 5 March 2016
National Theatre Course: developing your play with Jemma Kennedy (£450 bursaries available) – Every Wednesday from 16 March until 19 May 2016, 10am – 1pm
London Playwrights’ Workshop: INTENSIVE WORKSHOP – Creating Engaging Characters – 17 March 2016
Ongoing submissions:
Online Playwriting Course with Live Theatre (£95-£495) – rolling
Playwrights Circle at the Bread & Roses – Ongoing (monthly event)
2016 Terence Rattigan Society Award (£2,500 prize) – Deadline TBC
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)
East End Literary Salon open to rolling submissions – Deadline: Rolling
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 – No deadline 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
COG ARTSpace call out for playwrights! – Deadline: None posted