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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:
London Playwrights’ Workshop: Coming up in 2020!
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
New Blog Series! Reviews for Playwrights: Shook by Samuel Bailey
Members content! The Self- Producing Handbook: Available NOW!
Blog Series: Interviewing Playwrights – Emily Garside
Our latest opportunities Pick of the Week: ETPEP Award 2020 open for entries
Opportunities with deadlines:
Play Submissions Helper: 50 Play Submissions Opportunities with March Deadlines – Deadlines: various throughout March
Applications now open for free training opportunity for any Actor-Writers – Deadline: 28 February 2020 at 12pm
Creative Youth seeking short works for new scratch night in Kingston – Deadline: 28 February 2020
Action Transport Theatre are looking for young people (13-17) for an international writing programme – Deadline: 28 February 2020
International Playwriting Award Theatre503 opens 1st February (£6,000 prize) – Deadline: 29 February 2020
Last chance to apply for the Reading Fringe Festival – Deadline: 29 February 2020
Watermill Theatre looking for writer to adapt Twelfth Night (paid £1,575) – Deadline: 29 February 2020
BBC New Creatives offering commissioning opportunities for emerging writers – Deadline: 29 February 2020
Independent Award for Improper Dramaturgy 2019«Neem-2019. First page» – open for application – Deadline: 1 March 2020
London Lovecraft Playwrighting Competition now open – Deadline: 1 March 2020
Beardance Theatre are looking for new writing for their short play night – Deadline: 1 March 2020
TALOS IV – Science Fiction Theatre Festival of London call out for short plays – Deadline: 1 March 2020
EKP and Paines Plough: The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020 – Deadline: 2 March 2020
15 minute scripts inspired by ‘STUCK WITH YOU’ wanted for showcase – Deadline: 2 March 2020
INCUBATE – opportunity for working class playwrights to receive support (paid £875) -Deadline: 2 March 2020
Lichfield Garrick Theatre taking applications for writers for children’s production – Deadline: 2 March
Nathan Carr and Milivoy Webber Memorial Prize: An annual writing competition – Deadline: 4 March 2020
Voice of a Woman seeking short screenplays by women writers – Deadline: 4 March 2020
Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing – Deadline: 5 March 2020
Scribe Playwriting Competition inviting submissions (fee) – Deadline: 7 March 2020
Reboot Theatre Company seeking shorts for evening in London (paid £150) – Deadline: 8 March 2020
Roundhouse associates Global Voices Theatre accepting submissions – Deadline: 15 March 2020
Call out for Young Writer in Residence for Takeover Festival 2020 (paid £400) – Deadline: 16 March 2020
Submissions are now open for SB&Co’s first Scratch Night (Bath) – Deadline: 16 March 2020
The Young Films Foundation accepting applications for Storyteller Residency – Deadline: 16 March 2020
Call out for short pieces of new writing for Women’s Night – Deadline: 22 March 2020
Two day theatre workshop with Simon Stephens in Milan (cost €200) – Deadline for applications: 28 March 2020
Applications now open for The Writing Squad – Deadline: 29 March 2020
Radius 2020 Playwriting Competition now open (prize £500) – 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
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
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 March 2020
2020 Wexford Literary & Arts Awards competition call out (€10 fee) – Deadline: 3 April 2020
BBC Writersroom – open for comedy scripts on 23rd March 2020 – Deadline: 20 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
The Nick Darke Writer’s Award 2020 is now open for entries – Deadline: 4 May 2020
BBC Wales Writer in Residence (applications open on 10 February) – Deadline: 11 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
Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Playwriting Competition accepting international submissions (fee $49) – Deadline: 1 June 2020
The Phil Fox Award invites script submissions about issues related to addiction (paid £6,000) – Deadline: 16 June 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
Unrepresented female writer surgery on the 4th March – Deadline: 4 March 2020
Spoken word open mic night at Liverpool Arts Bar – Date: 4 March 2020
Opportunity for personal creative time with Writing in the Sand (fee £32.93) – Date: 7 March 2020
Free coaching sessions for writing with Katy Segrove – Dates: 10-12 March & 17-19 April 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
Online workshops and resources:
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:
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.