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Chewboy Productions: HARPOCRATES (or, how to run away quietly) – a short film available to watch now
Opportunities Listings
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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.
BBC Radio 4 Extra – DMs Are Open – taking submissions – Deadlines: various
Underscore Studios – Script Lab for working class writers/ filmmakers – Deadline: not specified/ see their newsletter
BFI Future Film Festival 2023 – call for submissions (£5 entry fee)- Deadline: 4 August 2023
Future Voices- Apples and Snakes’ 40th anniversary – Deadline: 7 August 2023
BBC Comedy Script Partnership Project: Northern Ireland – Deadline: 1 September 2023
London Playwrights’ Members: Summer Monologue Competition – Deadline: 1 September 2023
Rolling deadlines:
The Scene Podcast (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
BBC Upload – Deadline: rolling
British Comedy Guide – Pro Video Contest – Various throughout the year
SOOP Annual Short Story Contest – Deadline: none posted
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
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
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 free feedback on all plays 10 pages and under in length – 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
City Academy: Monthly Online Writing Club – Dates: monthly, various
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:
Royal Exchange Young Company Writers- now open to those up to 25 years old – Deadline: none posted but writers will be notified in August
Little Fish Theatre – Pick of the Vine short play festival- Deadline: 30 July 2023
Eclectic Full Contact Theater Company Announces The 1st Annual Crashbox! Festival – An International Festival for Short Live Radio Plays – Deadline: 31 July 2023
Mustapha Matura Award 2023 (25 or younger) – Deadline: 31 July 2023
Emergency 23 — call for proposals for CONTACT Manchester – Deadline: 4 August 2023
The North East Playwriting Award – by the Live Theatre and the Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust – Deadline: 7 August 2023
Developing your Creative Practice- new rounds opens- 1 July 2023- 10 August 2023 – Deadline: 10 August 2023
Personal Assistant to High Profile Script Writer – Deadline: 10 August 2023
Yale Drama Series 2024 Competition – Call for Submissions – Deadline: 15 August 2023 (opens on 1 June 2023)
BBC Writersroom at Edinburgh Fringe – Deadline: not posted/ Dates 20- 25 August 2023
The Kay Mellor Fellowship 2024 – Deadline: 29 August 2023 at 10am
Laurels Theatre | Richard Jenkinson Commission – Deadline: 31 August 2023
Ten-Minute Musicals Project 2023 – Deadline: 31 August 2023
Theatre Three 25th Annual Festival of One-Act Plays (2024) – Deadline: 1 September 2023
Constellation Stage and Screen – The Woodward / Newman Award – Deadline: 1 September 2023
Topanga Actors Company, California – short play festival (open to international writers) – Deadline: 16 September 2023
The Script’s The Thing! – Deadline: 22nd September 2023
INK Festival – Short Play Submissions – Deadline: 23 September 2023
Titchfield Festival Theatre – New Playwright Competition – Deadline: 30 September 2023
FOOTNOTE X COUNTERPOINTS WRITING PRIZE- for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds – Deadline: 1 October 2023
Transient Arena – Script Submissions – Deadline: 31 October 2023
Rolling & Unspecified deadlines:
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
Birmingham Rep: Victoria Wood Playwriting Prize – Deadline: not yet specified, submissions open in September 2023
Scribe Playwriting Competition taking entries for 2024 competition (entry fee) – Deadline: rolling
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
Applications open for Camden Fringe 2023 – Deadline: not specified
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
Call: Love Sharing Festival – VII edition – Deadline: not specified
Traverse Theatre First Stages Festival – Deadline: not applicable
Unbound – reader-funded pitches – Deadline: none posted
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
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:
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
Blood Beats: LGBTQ+ Writers Group (Manchester) – Dates: 3rd Thursday of the month in 2023
Theatre Deli London- Free workshops for emerging makers – Dates: various throughout July 2023
Crafting Compelling Dialogue for TV & Film: A 6 Week Course with Tom Hunsinger – Starts: 31 July 2023 for 6 weeks/ Mondays
Pleasure Chapters – Free Women’s Circle – Date: 1 August 2023
North 7 Media: Using AI Tools In Your Creative Career – workshop – Date: 9-10 September 2023
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