Opportunities Weekly Round-up: 28 February 2025

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Papatango Playwrights’ Studio – Date: not applicable

Royal Court Theatre – 6 Part Video Series on How to Write A Play – Date: live now 

RE-INSPIRE – online coaching and mentoring programme

London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Creating Historic Characters Date: 6 March 2025

London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Writing in Regional Dialect – Date: 20 March 2025 at 10.30am

London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Writing Musical Theatre Date: 20 March 2025 at 7pm

London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Using Scrivener to Write Plays – Date: 27 March 2025

London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Playwriting for Beginners – Date: Starts 22 April for 5 weeks

London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – The Redrafting Programme 2025 Date: Starts 24 April 2025 

BBC Writers Digital Sessions for Screenwriting Students Dates: various

New Earth academy plus- for BESEA artists – Various/ also in-person events

An Introduction to Screenwriting: online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia ( subscription costs apply)

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

With deadlines:

Theatre Writers’ Callout for Camden Fringe (NC Productions) –  Deadline: 1 March 2025

Director’s Cut Theatre accepting new members for Spring – Deadline: Starts March 2025

PLAYWRIGHTS FIRST PIECE: Fruitcake Productions Writer’s Programme – Deadline: 9 March 2025

Artist Commission Jumped Up Theatre Deadline: 10 March 2025

Flawstate | Project: Page One- Deadline: 14 March 2025

Flawstate | Flawed Up North – Deadline: 14 March 2025

The Play Lottery 2025 18 March 2025

The Script’s The Thing 2 – Deadline: 21 March 2025

Optik Theatre accepting submissions for Script Room (paid) – Deadline: 31 March 2025

Flawstate | Glitch Scratch Night – Deadline: 31 March 2205

The Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2025 Deadline: 1 April 2025

Ambassador Peel Playwriting Challenge 2025 – Deadline: 4 April 2025

The Women’s Prize for Playwriting – Deadline: 22 April 2025

The Oxford/42 New Writing Prize Deadline: 30 April 2025

Barnstormers Amateur Dramatic Society, Minehead, West Somerset – accepting 10-20 minute plays (unpaid) – Deadline: 30 April 2025

Royal Court: Young Playwrights Award – Deadline: not yet posted/ just announced

Rolling deadlines:

Playwrights’ Studio Scotland | National Script Reading Service – Deadline: rolling

VAULT Creative Arts – open programming call Deadline: not specified

Barons Court Theatre | The Sunday Fix Deadline: rolling

Box of Tricks | Open Door Deadline: rolling

Royal Court Theatre | Script Submissions – Deadline: rolling

 Liverpool’s Royal Court – Stage Write NightsDeadline: ongoing

Reflex Theatre Call for New Acts- Deadline: rolling

London Playwrights: Members’ Submission Window – Rolling Process!  – Deadline: rolling

Off The Page: bi-monthly script readings at The Bridge House Theatre, Penge – Deadline: rolling

Mental Rebellion seeking writers – 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 SubmissionsDeadline: rolling

Barons Court- Sunday Fix scratch night Deadline: not specified

The Swiss Church London offering subsided space for artists – Deadline: not applicable

The New Works Playhouse accepting submissions (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

Peggy Ramsay Foundation: Grant for writers – Deadline: rolling

Tutti Creative Space: cheap rehearsal space – Deadline: not applicable

Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various

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