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 now grouped into three sections: 1) Opportunities with Deadlines; 2) Ongoing opportunities (no deadline); and 3) Workshops and Events.
Opportunities with deadlines:
Play Submissions Helper – 32 playwriting opportunities with February deadlines – Deadline: various
Royal Court International Playwrights group open for submissions – Deadline: 30 January 2015
Brockley Jack seeking full length plays for Write Now 6 (for playwrights with a connection to SE London) – Deadline: 30 January 2015
IdeasTap Quarterly Editor’s Brief: Family (£250 prize) – Deadline: 30 January 2015
Ten Minute Play Competition from Sussex Playwrights’ Club (£5 entry fee) – Deadline: 31 January 2015
Writers are invited to submit plays for the 2015 Arundel Festival Theatre Trail (£250 prize) – Deadline: 31 January 2015
BAFTA Rocliffe Forum open to TV Drama scripts (entry fee) – Deadline: 31 January 2015 (early bird submissions); 28 February 2015 (regular submissions)
Festival of Dramaturgy on the Crisis PIIGS (Barcelona) – Deadline: 1 February 2015
Adrian Pagan Award 2015 – Deadline: 2 February 2015
Funding opportunity for disabled artists through Unlimited – Deadline: 2 February 2015
Battersea Arts Centre open to applications for Freshly Scratched – Deadline: 2 February 2015
The Space accepting theatre proposals for Summer 2015 – Deadline: 4 February 2015
Big Light Productions seeking Experienced Script Editors – Deadline: 6 February 2015
Submissions Open For Blue Elephant Theatre 2015 Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 6 February 2015
Scratch That Hackney seeking submissions for 10 min slots – Deadline: 6 February 2015
Les Enfant Terribles Award – apply through IdeasTap to take your show to Edinburgh – Deadline: 9 February 2015
Introduction to Playwriting Group at Royal Court Theatre – Spring 2015 – Deadline: 9 February 2015
Tron Theatre (Glasgow) accepting submissions for scratch night – Theme: PREJUDICE – Deadline: 12 February 2015
Violet Jobs posting for Creative Writer – Digital Audio Copywriter, Global Radio – Deadline: 12 February 2015
BBC Radio Drama accepting short story submissions for Opening Lines – Deadline: 13 February 2015 (note: submissions do not open until 5 January 2015)
Odd Servants Theatre seeking writers to respond to The Domestic Extremists – Deadline: 15 February 2015
Ghost Dog productions seeking 10min plays for Playground – Theme: Survival – Deadline: 16 February 2015
Creative Commissions with the NHS Halton Clinical Commissioning Group (NW) – Deadline: 16 February 2015
Write Now 6 at Brockley Jack seeking short plays on the theme of ‘Leadership’ – Deadline: 20 February 2015
High Tide Festival accepting submissions through IdeasTap – Deadline: 23 February 2015
Sky Arts – Scholarships of £30k available for emerging talent including playwrights! – Deadline: 26 February 2015
Pitch your play at the Theatre Royal Haymarket – Deadline 27 February at 5pm
Giant Cherries LGBT Playwriting Competition 2015 (£20 entry fee) – Deadline: 28 February 2015
Nickelodeon Writing Program open for submissions– Deadline: 28 February 2015
Story Friday with A Word In Your Ear (Bath) – Theme: Quilt of Stories – Deadline: 2 March 2015
2015 Windsor Fringe Kenneth Branagh Drama Writing Award (amateur playwrights only) – Deadline: 5 March 2015
James Tait Black Prize for Drama launched for professionally produced plays– Deadline: 9 March 2015
Putney Arts Theatre seeking plays on ‘Crime and Punishment’ (£20 fee to join club if selected) – Deadline: 15 March 2015
A Friend of a Friend productions seeking short plays for Blackfriars Stories (for playwrights with connection to SE London) – Deadline: 15 March 2015
Sky Blue Theatre accepting one-act plays for British Theatre Challenge (£15 fee) – Deadline: 30 March 2015
2015 Papatango New Writing Prize – Deadline: 31 March 2015
Blackwell House seeking class-style radio plays (15-45 min) – Deadline: 31 March 2015
Blackwell House seeking class-style radio plays (15-45 min) – Deadline: 31 March 2015
Tron Theatre (Glasgow) accepting submissions for scratch night – Theme: SURVIVAL – Deadline: 2 April 2015
BBC Scriptroom dates for 2015 – Deadline: 2 April 2015 (submissions open 9 March 2015)
Ticket to Write 2015 seeking one act plays about the Beatles (£10 application fee, £150 prize) – Deadline: 7 April 2015
GRIT: Royal Court seeking plays about resistance that can fit in the palm of your hand – Deadline: 10 April 2015
The Walter Swan Playwriting Award 2015 seeking 20-30 minute plays – Deadline: 30 April 2015
Wellcome Trust Arts Awards funding opportunity – Deadline: 1 May 2015
Tron Theatre (Glasgow) accepting submissions for scratch night – Theme: BETRAYAL – Deadline: 7 May 2015
Bruntwood Prize coming back soon, get your scripts ready! – Deadline: 5 June 2015
Saving Endangered Species (SES) International Playwriting Prize (California, $100 prize) – Deadline: 30 November 2015
Ongoing submissions:
TreePress seeking playwrights to upload scripts for Beta Testing – Deadline: none posted
New Prose in East London seeking submissions – Deadline: not posted
East End Literary Salon open to rolling submissions – Deadline: rolling
Creative Writer on UK Popular Culture wanted (London/ Reading) – paid – Deadline: none posted
Peppered Wit seeking submissions for fringe festivals – Deadline: none posted
Plane Paper Theatre looking for writers: Deadline: none posted
Orange Tea Theatre accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
Fractured Lines accepting scripts for new writing night – Deadline: rolling
Theatrelab accepting scripts – rolling submissions
Kings Head Theatre seeking work in development for Without Decor – Deadline: none posted
Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – Deadline: none posted
Everything Theatre accepting plays for podcast readings – Deadline: none posted
Performance Platform Opportunity, University of Greenwich – Deadline: None posted
Quids In Theatre Co seeking 40-60 minute plays for lunchtime series – Deadline: Ongoing
The Cockpit Theatre seeking work for scratch nights – No deadline posted but performances take place on the first Monday of the month through to June 2014.
ScriptSpace development workshop at The Space – Deadline: None
Shred Productions open to submissions – Deadline: None (open submissions)
Open Arts Cafe Call for Submissions – Deadline: None posted
Poppy Seed – accepting submissions of 5 minute scripts for blog – Deadline: None posted
Events and workshops:
Workshop with Simon Vinnicombe on Writing for Theatre (£35) – Dates: 31 January – 21 February (4 Saturdays)
Playwriting Workshop at the National Theatre with April de Angelis (£85) – Sunday 1 February, 11am – 5.30pm
From script to screen: free online course with the NFTS/ BFI -Starts 2 February for 6 weeks
Online playwriting workshop with Phil Porter from the Bruntwood Prize – 17 February 2015, 6-8pm
Octagon Theatre Bolton and BBC Writersroom running five act structure masterclass – Deadline: 19 March 2015
Also, see the IdeasTap Spa for masterclasses coming up in early 2015!