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London Playwrights’ Latest Projects
LGBTQ+ History Month: Zoom Workshops from London Playwrights throughout February!
Pay it Forward for Playwrights: A new initiative to help support writers
Playwriting Real-life: London Playwrights Podcast live now! New Episode – HOW TO STOP YOUR DAY-JOB FROM KILLING YOUR CREATIVITY!
2021 Members’ Submission Window Selected Writers!
Members’ Zoom Drop-in session: share your work, meet other writers – next session Wednesday 1 February 2023!
What do our members get?
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
Watch the filmed recordings of the performances from your own sofa!
London Playwrights’ Latest Zoom Workshops
Find out more about the full programme of workshops here.
More January 2023 workshops coming very soon!
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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: The Women’s Prize for Playwriting – Paines Plough
Opportunities Listings
New! New opportunities added this week are now highlighted in pink to save regular scrollers some time!
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
Devon and Cornwall Screenwriting Group – Deadline: not applicable
WGGB: Leading playwrights back new digital principles for theatre (resource) – Deadline: not applicable
Oxbelly | Episodic Program 2023 – Deadline: 28 February 2023
Rianne Pictures | Rianne Reads – Deadline: opens 1 February 2023/ closes after 50 submissions
BFI Future Takes – Deadline: 13 February 2023
BBC World Service | The International Radio Playwriting Competition 2023 – Deadline: 12 February 2023
Crazy Cats Theatre – Flash Fiction Writing Competition – Deadline: 1 February 2023
TSL Free Screenplay Contest 2023 – Deadline: 28 February 2023
Dramatists Guild – End of Play 2023 – Deadline: 31 April 2023
Rolling deadlines:
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
Freehand Scripts – free script reading – Deadline: rolling
Online Courses and Workshops
The Writers Hour- virtual writing sprints by London Writers’ Salon – Daily
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
Hyphen Artist Collective – Show Up and Write – Dates: Sundays in February 2023 from the 5th
The Mono Box – An Introduction to Playwriting with Lisa Carroll – Date: Mondays from 6 February 2023
HOME | Writing for TV: The inside story of Waterloo Road – Date: 6 February 2023
LPW Online Workshops: LGBTQ+ History– Date: 7 February 2023
London Playwrights Zoom Workshops: The Redrafting Programme 2023 – Date: Starts 8 February 2023
Digital dramaturgy with idontloveyouanymore (PUSH Festival 2023) – Date: 9 February 2023
London Playwrights Zoom Workshops: TV Writing (6 week course) – Date: Starts 14 February 2023
LPW Online Workshops: LGBTQ+ Theatre- Date: 16 February 2023
London Playwrights Lunchtime Sessions : Focus on the 5 Act Structure – Date: 17 February 2023
LPW Online Workshops: LGBTQ+ Activist Theatre – Date: 21 February 2023
LPW Online Workshops: LGBTQ+ Writers Drop-in – Date: 26 February 2023
London Playwrights Lunchtime Sessions: Pitching your play – Date: 2 March 2023
LPW Online Workshops: Writing Historic Drama – Date: 2 March 2023
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:
Cassarotto Ramsay Coffee Mornings for unrepresented writers & directors – Deadline: none specified but they start in January 2023 so apply soon!
Papatango New Writing Prize 2023 – Deadline: 5 February 2023
CALL OUT FOR THE SOCIAL MODEL. . . & MORE FESTIVAL – Deadline: 5 February 2023
Ricochet Theatre – BULLETPOINTS Writers’ Showcase – Deadline: 7 February 2023
A Pleasance Scratch accepting submissions – Deadline: 8 February 2023
Emerging Writer – A Gender Euphoric Trans Musical – Deadline: 9 February 2023
Script submissions open for small London Fringe Festival w/ Tiffany Tam – Deadline: 17 February 2023
Cork Arts Theatre – ‘View from a Window’ Short Play Competition – Deadline: 19 February 2023
New Diorama and Underbelly’s Untapped Award Relaunched for 2023 – Applications Open – Deadline: 20 February 2023
The Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays is accepting plays for their 2023 festival – Deadline: 28 February 2023
Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2023 – Deadline: 1 March 2023
London Library | Emerging Writers Programme – Deadline: 2 March 2023
Unshaded Arts seeking submissions for ‘Universal’ writing event 2023 – Deadline: 31 March 2023
Pend Oreille Players 2023 One Act Play Festival – Deadline: 31 March 2023
SHELAGH DELANEY NEW WRITING AWARD- 2023. Salford Arts Theatre – Deadline: 3 April 2023
The Women’s Prize for Playwriting – Paines Plough – Deadline: 17 April 2023
North Cumbria Scriptwriters | Lonely Cloud – Act Your Age – Deadline: 30 April 2023
Carlo Annoni International Playwriting Prize 2023: LBGTQ+ Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 30 April 2023
Pint-Sized Plays Writing Competition 2023 – Deadline: 31 May 2023
Rolling & Unspecified deadlines:
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
Hampstead 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
Work-in-Development Submissions for the John Thaw Studio at The Actors Centre (profit share) – 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:
Blood Beats: LGBTQ+ Writers Group (Manchester) – Dates: 3rd Thursday of the month in 2023
Winter Writing Day Retreat by the Sea – Date: 4 February 2023
10 Week Playwriting Course by Hannah Kennedy – Dates: starts 22 March 2023
Manchester Screenwriting Meet Up – Dates: various (alternates between in person in and Zoom)
Writing for Theatre at Granada Concierge in Spain with Sarah Grochala – Dates: not specified
Bush Theatre Masterclasses – Dates: various (available both in person and online)
BBC & NFTS – BBC Scholarships – Dates: various
Scriptease: Scriptwriting for Stage and Screen course – Starts January 2023