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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:
Introducing the Online Book Club for Playwrights
5 Playwrights Share The Plays You Need To Read Right Now
How To Create New Work: A Chat with Sam Sedgman of the NT Podcast
Are women writers making themselves invisible?
Our latest opportunities Pick of the Week: Itch + Scratch theatre seeking shorts on theme of ‘Great’ Britain
From the Archive of our Advice Column, Pursued By A Bear: “I’m struggling to finish my first play, should I just give up?”
Opportunities with deadlines:
New Wolsey Theatre’s PULSE Festival Opens Submissions for Testing Ground 2018 – Deadline: 22 September 2017
Tamasha Playwrights seeking full-length scripts – Deadline: 25 September 2017
Woman SRSLY launches open call for proposals – Deadline: 28 September 2017
Graphic Short Story prize 2017 (£1000 prize) – Deadline: 29 September 2017
Hammond House accepting scripts for screenwriting competition (£10 entry fee) – Deadline: 30 September 2017
Heretic Productions seeking monologues for production at the Arcola Theatre – Deadline: 30 September 2017
Traverse Theatre seeking scripts for annual open submission window – Deadline: 30 September 2017
Talawa Theatre Company seeking Black theatre-makers for Talawa Studio Firsts – Deadline: 30 September 2017
Red Dragonfly new playwriting competition 2017 open for submissions – Deadline: 1 October 2017
Graeae Theatre Company seeking BAME D/deaf & Disabled Writers – Deadline: 2 October 2017
Itch + Scratch theatre seeking shorts on theme of ‘Great’ Britain – Deadline: 2 October 2017
Full Disclosure Theatre seeking LGBTQ+ short plays for new writing night XPOSED – Deadline: 2 October 2017
Aberdeen Performing Arts seeking scripts for scratch night – Deadline: 2 October 2017
Caroline Aherne Bursary for Funny Northern Women now open for submissions – Deadline: 9 October 2017
Women’s Comedy Festival accepting applications (£50 prizes) – Deadline: 12 October 2017
Amper and Sand Publishers seeking short plays for publication – Deadline: 15 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
Bush Theatre accepting scripts through open submission window – Deadline: 31 October 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
Events and workshops:
Playwriting Workshops with John Burgess in Burgundy, France – 5-11 October 2017 & 9-14 November 2017
Playwriting Courses at The National Theatre (£500/£350 concessions cost) -19 September – 28 November 2017 & 22 September – 1 December 2017
Three day playwriting workshop with Simon Stephens in Andalucia 15 – 19 October 2017
6 week playwriting workshop with Lee Anderson at the Arcola (£85 cost) – 31 October – 5 December 2017
Writers’ Mutual writing group -currently taking place Wednesdays 11am- 1pm
Ongoing submissions:
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
Theatrefullstop in call out for bi-weekly podcast script submissions – 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