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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:
**Update: Covid-19 and our work**
London Playwrights 2020: Selected Writers Announced!
Play Club 2020 – Play #1 – Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner by Jasmine Lee Jones
Members’ Content Coming Soon! Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure
The LPW Guide to Formatting your Stage Play – NOW LIVE!
PODCAST: Making It with Temi Wilkey – London Playwrights’ Collaboration with the Bush Theatre & One Fine Play
Interviewing Playwrights – Emily Garside
New Digital Opportunities
In response to the coronavirus crisis, there has been a surge in new online opportunities for writers, so we’ve added this new section to list them all!
National Theatre productions to be streamed for free on YouTube
Sharp Scratches presents Writing in Isolation (Facebook Group)
Women & Theatre podcast series exploring women and work
Papatango Library & Arts Council Advice
Nick Hern Books Still on the Page – offering 30% discount on play texts
Call out for Audio Comedy & Comedy/Drama Scripts! – Deadline: rolling
Calling Creative Contributors – writers, dancers, photographers, The Creative Pandemic – Deadline: rolling
Josef Weinberger Plays seeking 15 minute shorts for ISOPLAYTION – Deadline: none posted
Quarantine Quill – Creative writing podcast – Deadline: rolling
ChewBoy Productions seeking submissions for ‘The Quarantine Collective’ – Deadline: 27 March 2020
Wooden Arrow Productions seeking monologues from working class writers – Deadline: 29 March 2020
BBC Interconnected Rapid Response callout for scripts – Deadline: 30 March 2020 at 12pm
Papatango Isolated but Open commissions – Deadline: 31 March 2020
Slackline Productions accepting submissions for Cyber Stories – Deadline: weekly on Wednesdays from 25 March 2020
Farnham Maltings Theatre seeking Covid-19 responses – Deadline: 2 April 2020 & 18 May 2020 (more deadlines may be added later)
Breakwater Theatre online monologue competition – Deadline: 4 April 2020
Uproar Theatre accepting submissions for Some Noise – Deadline: 10 April 2020
New writing podcast seeking work on theme of Power of One – Deadline: 20 April 2020 at midnight
Down Stage Write – Write Home: Script Surgery Online (Devon and Cornwall writers) – Deadline: none but the session takes place on 31 March 2020
Opportunities with deadlines:
Please note: due to the current theatre closures, it is likely that some of these opportunities may not go ahead as planned. We are working hard to get everything updated but in the meantime, please check with the organisers before submitting.
Play Submissions Helper: Free Access to Master List! (including 56 Play Submissions Opps w/ April Deadlines) – Deadlines: various throughout April
Graeae’s Crips with Chips scratch night accepting submissions from deaf and disabled writers – Deadline: 28 March 2020
Applications now open for The Writing Squad – Deadline: 29 March 2020
Dramatists Guild accepting submissions for a reading with feedback – Deadline: 29 March 2020
Radius 2020 Playwriting Competition now open (prize £500) – Deadline: 30 March 2020
DYSPLA accepting pitch ideas for a new writer in residency – Deadline: 30 March 2020
Creative Youth are searching for three emerging companies/artists for their Creative Talent Programme – Deadline: 30 March 2020
Decorating Dissidence: Call for Submissions – Essays, Reviews, Poetry, Visual Arts – Deadline: 31 March 2020
Call out for 400th anniversary Mayflower themed ideas at the Albany theatre – Deadline: 31 March 2020
10 minute shorts wanted from Kent based writers for new production COFFEEHOUSE – Deadline: 31 March 2020
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of Acting accepting short film submissions – Deadline: 31 March 2020
ETPEP Award 2020 open for entries – Deadline: 31 March 2020
Crimson Phoenix script submission window now open for plays and musicals – Deadline: 31 March 2020
One-year MA in Operamaking at GSMD open for applications – Deadline: 31 March 2020
Calling all budding playwrights – The Phoenix Writes competition is now open (entry fee £10) – Deadline: 31 March 2020
Seahorse Films are looking for new screenplays (paid) – Deadline: 31 March 2020
Breakout Film Festival Contest open for entries – Deadline: 31 March 2020
Alpine Fellowship 2020 Theatre Prize (£3000) now open for entries – Deadline: 1 April 2020
ITV Red Planet Prize open for submissions on 27 March 2020 – Deadline: 3 April 2020
Voices in the Dark 2020 call out for 6 short plays – Deadline: 3 April 2020
2020 Wexford Literary & Arts Awards competition call out (€10 fee) – Deadline: 3 April 2020
Flux Theatre accepting submissions for EMERGE 5 – Deadline: 8 April 2020
Short Com Sitcom Script Competition (entry fee) – Deadline: 10 April early/ 21 June regular/ 7 July 2020 late
Full Disclosure Theatre now accepting submissions for special PRIDE edition of XPOSED – Deadline: 13 April 2020
Rosemary’s House writers retreat in Greece ($3500) – Deadline: 17 April 2020
The Writing Squad seeking new core team member (paid) – Deadline: 17 April 2020
BBC Writers Academy 2020 – Deadline: 19 April 2020
BBC Writersroom – open for comedy scripts on 23rd March 2020 – Deadline: 20 April 2020
Applecart Arts seeking writers aged 10-16 for inspiring submissions – Deadline: 20 April 2020
Yellow Earth – Writers Academy Birmingham – Deadline: 20 April 2020
AboutFACE Theatre open for submissions for new writing festival – Deadline: 26 April 2020
Penguin Random House accepting applications for WriteNow – Deadline: 26 April 2020
Lungs Project accepting proposals for written work on theme “Visions of Home” – Deadline: 30 April 2020
Love Sharing international festival accepting performance proposals (Italy) – Deadline: 30 April 2020
Playmakers Repertory Company inviting blind submissions in March and April – Deadline: 30 April 2020
The Nick Darke Writer’s Award 2020 is now open for entries – Deadline: 4 May 2020
Power Play are searching for a female-identifying writer to create a play set in a nail bar/beauty salon – Deadline: 4 May 2020
BBC Wales Writer in Residence (applications open on 10 February) – Deadline: 11 May 2020
The Comedy Crowd TV2020 Showcase – Deadline: 15 May 2020
The Progress Theatre launches two projects for aspiring playwrights – Deadline: none but last sessions and events take place on 1 & 4 July 2020
Pint-Sized Plays 2020 writing competition open for applications (fee £5.50) – Deadline 31 May 2020
Liverpool Hope Prize for Playwriting – Deadline: 31 May 2020
Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Playwriting Competition accepting international submissions (fee $49) – Deadline: 1 June 2020
Carnon Downs Drama Group looking for one act scripts (prize £100) – Deadline: 5 June 2020
The Phil Fox Award invites script submissions about issues related to addiction (paid £6,000) – Deadline: 16 June 2020
Manchester Performing Arts Group accepting submissions – Deadline: 30 June 2020
Two day theatre workshop with Simon Stephens in Milan (cost €200) – Deadline for applications: 28 March 2020 15 July 2020
Events and workshops:
Greenwich screenwriters meetup – Dates: 1st Wednesday of each month
Writing in the Sand full creative day event (costs £32.93) – Dates: monthly
Playwritng Classes at the National Theatre – Dates: various throughout the year
Bush Theatre Masterclasses – Dates: various
Director’s Cut Theatre: Writer’s Club – Dates: various
The Monobox: Get Writing with Andrew Whyment and Adam Foster – Dates: various
Free coaching sessions for writing with Katy Segrove -17-19 April 2020
Free tickets available for WMC scratch night for womxn & non-binary writers only – Date: 13 March 2020
Residential Playwriting Course with Simon Stephens – Dates: 22 – 28 March 2020
Write Theatre – 4 Day courses on the art of Writing for Theatre – Dates: Stars 9 May 2020
Residential Writing Course/Retreat with Kim Komljanec in France (prices start from £545) – Dates: 31 May 2020 – 5 June 2020
LPW Workshop: An Introduction to Musical Theatre Writing with Emily Garside – Date: 6 June 2020 10am-1pm
LPW Workshop: Plan your Play in a Day – Date: 27 June 2020
LPW Workshop: Making an Impact in Your Opening Scene – Date: 1 August 2020 10am-1pm
LPW: The Redrafting Programme Course 2020 – Date: start 19 September 2020
Writing for Radio day workshop for beginners with Fin Kennedy (cost £50) – Date: 19 September 2020
Online workshops and resources:
New Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure -Starts 7 May 2020
LPW launches Podcast with Temi Wilkey, One Fine Play & The Bush Theatre
National Theatre: New Views – playwriting programme for 14-19 year olds – Dates: various
Papatango career facilitation service – 10am -12pm alternate Tuesdays (starting 31 January 2019)
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting: Online Toolkit for writers
The Bruntwood Prize: Free livestreamed workshops for 2019 Paines Plough Insights Podcast
Stagedoor App Podcast (Bridget Minamore and Chris Campbell of the Royal Court’s Literary Office)
Access the Royal Court’s Playwrights’ Podcast
Bloomsbury Publishing: How to get your play published (view live stream of talk)
WGGB launches FREE Musical Theatre Kit
An Introduction to Screenwriting: free online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia
LPW Summer Sessions: Overcoming writers’ block (online workshop)
LPW Summer Sessions: How to write a monologue (online workshop)
LPW Summer Sessions: Promoting yourself as a writer (online workshops)
LPW Members: Online Course – Writing in Dialect: How to Listen, What to Write – Available now
LPW Members: Online Course – The Submissions Checklist
Black Lives, Black Words: Playwriting Fundamentals Course
Chippy Lane Productions open list of female writers
Nick Hern Books launches Playscript Subscriptions
Ongoing submissions:
London Playwrights Workshop accepting rolling submissions from members – Deadline: rolling
Opportunity for writers to develop work with company of actors (profit share) – Deadline: rolling
John Byrne Award monthly competition for creative work (prize £250) – Deadline: monthly
Scene 1 writers’ & actors’ group looking for short scripts linked to Epping Forest (£4 fee) – Deadline: rolling
Brush Stroke Order now offering bursaries for script reading services – Deadline: rolling
Elephant Ears Reading Series are looking for plays to read and record (feedback provided) – Deadline: not specified
Underscore Studios script submission – Deadline: not specified
The Lion & Unicorn Theatre are looking for work to programme – Deadline: rolling/ programming for current season (ends July)
Stitchin’ Fiction seeking creatives for their events – Deadline: rolling
Studio Salford Development Week – Deadline: none posted
The Space accepting applications from companies for new season – 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
Free Spirit Theatre seeking submissions for Write-Off 2019 – Deadline: none posted
Feast Theatre seeking playwrights! – Deadline: none posted
BBC Sounds launch callout for podcast drama! – Deadline: none posted
Tiny Theatre seeking submissions of short plays – Deadline: none posted
WildChild Script Call out! – Deadline: none posted
Blindspot Theatre Scratch night -Deadline: none but slots are filled on a first come first serve basis
Katzpace accepting submissions for Katzcratch – Deadline: none posted
Scriptjam accepting scripts for feedback – Deadline: rolling
The Cabot Cruising Club, Bristol looking to programme arts events – Deadline: none posted
Exploding Whale Theatre seeking submissions for their next show – Deadline: none posted
Thunder Theatre seeking submissions for 15-20 minute plays – Deadline: none posted
Mate Productions accepting applications for Writers Collective – Deadline: None posted
Manchester ADP seeking scripts to produce – Deadline: Rolling
Sparks – HighTide’s new script submission process – Deadline: Weekly, follow them on Twitter for updates
Attic Theatre seeking musicals for 2019 tour – Deadline: None posted
React Scratch inviting writers to share work at monthly scratch night – Deadline: Rolling
Drama Notebook seeking short plays for kids and teens (paid) – Deadline: None posted
Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Play Production Programme – Deadline: Ongoing
Aurora Metro Books seeks British East Asian plays for publication – Deadline: Ongoing
Middle Child Theatre seeking scripts to commission – Deadline: None posted
Newsthump looking for spoof news writers – Deadline: ongoing
Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various
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
Playwrights Circle at the Bread & Roses – Deadline: ongoing (monthly event)
Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – 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.