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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.
The Total Artist: An Adventure In Expressive Living – Deadline: starts 11 January 2024 but is ongoing and accessible throughout the year
Channel 4 New Writers Scheme – Deadline: 1 March 2024
Student Poetry Opportunity at the Botanic Garden: Cambridge Festival – Date: 1 March 2024
BBC Studios TalentWorks – Writers’ Studio: Casualty & The Casualty Director’s Scheme – Deadlines: 1 & 4 March 2024
Itchy Feet Productions | World Theatre Day Monologue – Deadline: 4 March 2024
Underscore Studios: Crowdfunding with Greenlit and building your audience – Deadline: 12 March 2024
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of Acting – Short Film Script Submissions 2024 – Deadline: 22 March 2024
RL Pearson Books Flash Fiction Story 50-400 words – Deadline: 31 March 2024
Rolling deadlines:
Bookmark magazine TYPE! Accepting submissions of flash fiction, poetry, six-word stories, micro-plays, micro-screenplays, and illustrations – Deadline: rolling
Creative Debuts – Working Class Creatives Grant – Deadline: rolling
The Scene Podcast (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
BBC Upload – Deadline: rolling
British Comedy Guide – Pro Video Contest – Various throughout the year
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
Add Your Shows and Theatre Resources to Thespie (unpaid)- Deadline: rolling
Scenesaver – digital performance platform – Deadline: rolling
Online Courses and Workshops
Omnibus launch 1:1 Wednesday Chats with Artistic Director Marie McCarthy – Dates: various, Wednesdays
Kali Playwrights Forum – Date: 29 June 2023 and then every two months
Paines Plough – Open Writer’s Labs – Deadline: not specified
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
Playwright and former Space Theatre script reader Scott Younger is offering feedback on stage plays (small fee payable) – 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
London Playwrights Zoom Workshops – Develop Your Play – Starts 27 February 2024
LPW Online Workshops: Writing Historic Drama – Date: 28 February 2024
London Playwrights Zoom Workshops: The Redrafting Programme 2024: Date: 29 February 2024
London Playwrights Monthly Members’ Zoom – March – Date: 13 March 2024
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop: Using Scrivener to Write Plays – Date: 21 March 2024
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop: Formatting Your Play – Date: 25 April 2024
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop: Playwrighting for Neurodiverse Writers – Date: 24 April 2024
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 & Jobs
Listed in order of deadline, followed those with deadlines, and workshops & events.
With deadlines:
Anthroplay Theatre |Anthrotalks Refresh – Deadline: 28 February 2024
Abbey Theatre St Albans – New Writing Festival – Deadline: 29 February 2024
The Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2024 – Deadline: 1 March 2024
Bluestocking Theatre: Short Play Submissions – Deadline: 1 March 2024
Over It! Revolution – Deadline: 1 March 2024
Scratch at the Jack: Brockley Jack accepting submissions of 10 minute plays for scratch night – Deadline: 4 March 2024
Write Across Birmingham and the Black Country | BBC Writers, Create Central and partners – Deadline: 5 March 2024
The Play Lottery (writers in East of England) – Deadline 10 March 2024
Papatango Playwriting Prize 2024 – Deadline: 11 March 2024
East Riding Theatre: Playwright Callout – Deadline: 15 March 2024
Menagerie Theatre: Hidden Voices- Deadline: 25 March 2024
Patricia Leggett Playwriting Scholarship 2024 – Deadline: 5 April 2024
Windsor Fringe Festival: The Kenneth Branagh International Award – Deadline: 15 March 2024
Carlo Annoni 2024 International Playwriting Prize – Deadline: 30 April 2024
The Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language for 2023-2024 – Deadline: 30 April 2024
Bruntwood Prize 2025 – 9 January 2025
Rolling & Unspecified deadlines:
Reflex Theatre Call for New Acts– Deadline: rolling
Old Red Lion Theatre available slots for hire on Sundays – Deadline: not applicable
London Playwrights: Members’ Submission Window 2023: New Rolling Process! – Deadline: rolling
INK: Free Script Writing Courses – Dates: various
London Fringe Theatres Open Slots + Submissions – Deadlines: various
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
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
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
Unbound – reader-funded pitches – Deadline: none posted
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:
Script Club Cardiff – Monthly Meet-ups – Starts 25 February 2024
Directing Your Own Plays: A Weekend workshop with Russell Lucas in partnership with London Playwrights & Fourth Monkey Drama School – Dates: 9 & 10 March 2024
Theatre: Making It and Doing It – Workshop with Carmen Collective – Date:23 March 2024
Make It Write – Play with your Play – Dates: 26 March/ 25 April/ 23 May 2024
Drama Spring Courses from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama – Dates: various
Womxn Who Make Funny Films – Dates: various
The Tron – Pay What You Want workshops – Dates: various
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
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