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What will our members get in 2022?
The Literary Series: Interviews with Literary Managers, Dramaturgs and New Work Associates
Episode 1 (Stewart Pringle from the National Theatre), Episode 2 (Jackie Crichton from the Royal Lyceum), Episode 3 (Becky Latham from the RSC), Episode 4 (Suzanne Bell from the Royal Exchange) AVAILABLE NOW
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London Playwrights: Coming up in 2022!
Featured Blog Posts
Fizzy Sherbet on the launch of their new podcast series
London Playwrights’ Latest Zoom Workshops
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NEW! 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 Listings
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Opportunities – Pick of the Week: Theatre503 – International Playwriting Award 2023
Opportunities Listings
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.
Mark Ravenhill’s 101 Notes on Playwriting (resource) – Deadline: not applicable
WGGB: Leading playwrights back new digital principles for theatre (resource) – Deadline: not applicable
Writer, The Global Indian Series – Deadline: 20 February 2022
Dark Unicorn Productions Ltd – Radio Play/Audio Drama Submissions – Deadline: 27 February 2022
FIELDNOTES Audio and Written Content Contributors (unpaid, possibility for future payment) – Deadline: 28 February 2022
Scriptwriters & Co International Festival – open for submissions (entry fees apply) – Deadline: 28 February 2022
Bitter Pill Theatre – The Painkiller Project – Deadline: 10 March 2022
BBC Writersroom: Write Across Liverpool – Deadline: 10 March 2022
Duly Noted – Eleven Films: training programme for aspiring script editors – Deadline: 14 March 2022
37 Plays Podcast (Mark Ravenhill) (resource) – Deadline: not applicable
Rolling deadlines:
Cooped Up Creatives recruiting new contributors for poetry and art project (unpaid) – 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
Martin Keaveney Creative Writing – SUPERFLEX – TEST-DRIVE
Flux Writers Membership (Jan is FREE)
Playwright and former Space Theatre script reader Scott Younger is offering free feedback on all plays 10 pages and under in length – Deadline: not specified
London Playwrights: Writing in Regional Dialect – Date: 2 March 2022
London Playwrights: Making Work Using Improvisation Techniques (4 week intro course) – Starts: 12 March 2022
London Playwrights: Crowdfunding your project with Grace O’Keefe from Greenlit – Date: 2 March 2022 2022
London Playwrights: Creating Historic Characters – Date: 5 March 2022
London Playwrights: Pitching your Play – Date: 9 March 2022
London Playwrights: Producing your Project (3 week course)- Date: Starts 16 March 2022
London Playwrights: Playwriting Lab with Max Wilkinson (10 week course) – Date: starts 24 March 2022
London Playwrights: Writing Necessary Coincidences – Date: 31 March 2022
Getting Your Play Commissioned: Workshop with Royal Exchange Theatre Dramaturg Suzanne Bell – Date: 1 March 2022
NT Playwriting Masterclass: Verbatim Playwriting with Alecky Blythe – Date: 8 March 2022
London Playwrights: Writing for Audio (4 week intro course) – Date: Starts 14 March 2022
ARVON AT HOME WRITING WEEK: WRITING FOR THEATRE – Dates: from 28 March 2022
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
New! London Playwrights Monthly Zoom Drop-in for members (no extra cost!) – on the first Wednesday of each month, next one 5th January 2021
An Introduction to Screenwriting: free online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia
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:
Tramshed Festival 2022 -Deadline: not applicable
Play Submissions Helper: 35 Play Submissions Opps with February 2022 Deadlines – Deadline: various throughout February 2022
RSC: 37 Plays – New writing project launching in January 2022! – Deadline: not yet specified
Young Writers Programme & Partnerships Manager (Manchester), First Story – Deadline: 21 February 2022
Writers’ Corner Call out – Deadline: 22 February 2022
KDC Theatre accepting short plays on a brief for staged production – Deadline: 28 February 2022
The Salford Arts Theatre- SHELAGH DELANEY NEW WRITING AWARD – Deadline: 28 February 2022
CALLOUT: Tamasha Associate Companies 2022 – Deadline: 28 February 2022
London Library – Emerging Writers Programme – Deadline: 2 March 2022
Writer in Residence at the Bronte« Parsonage Museum – Deadline: 4 March 2022
Windsor Fringe – Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing– Deadline: 5 March 2022
Platform Presents – 2022 Playwright’s Prize – Deadline: 7 March 2022
DYSPLA Storymakers Residency 2022 – Deadline: 7 March 2022
The David Nobbs Memorial Trust – 5th Annual Comedy Writing Competition – Deadline: 11 March 2021
Theatre503 – International Playwriting Award 2023 – Deadline: 21 March 2022
Off The Rails Theatre: 3-Minute Drama Scriptwriting Competition (Prizes) – Deadline: 30 April 2022
4th Annual Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Playwriting Competition (entry fee, cash prizes) – Deadline: 31 May 2022
Bruntwood Prize 2022 – Open until 6 June! Plus FREE WRITING RESOURCES!– Deadline: 6 June 2022
Rolling & Unspecified deadlines:
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
Work-in-Development Submissions for the John Thaw Studio at The Actors Centre (profit share) – Deadline: ongoing
Concord Theatricals are accepting unsolicited submissions (paid) – Deadline: ongoing
The BCG Pro Video Contest is looking for 2 minute scripted video sketches (prize £100) – Deadline: until further notice
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
Hampstead Theatre announces year round submission window
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:
Bush Theatre Masterclasses – Dates: various (available both in person and online)
BBC & NFTS – BBC Scholarships – Dates: various