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Digital, Audio & Screen
With deadlines:
Female Voices Short Film Fund – Deadline: none specified
BFI NETWORK | Shorts School (Online) – Dates: various
The Comedy Unit | Noising Up! – Deadline: every Monday
The Skewer for Radio 4 seeking ideas – Deadlines: Saturdays/ Wednesday
BBC World Service | The International Audio Drama Competition 2026 – Deadline: 4 June 2025
Portfolio Films | The Thumbling Administration – Deadline: 7 June 2025
New Writing North | Channel 4 Writing for Television Awards 2025 – Deadline: 9 June 2025
Call for Submissions: Qutub Minar Review July 2025 Issue – Deadline: 20 June 2025
Channel 4 New Writers Scheme – Deadline: 25 June 2025
Northern Ireland Screen | New Writer Focus – Deadline: 30 June 2025
Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award – Deadline: 1 July 2025
Rolling deadlines:
ChewBoy Productions launch new service: Cinematic Monologue Reels
Bookmark magazine TYPE! Accepting submissions of flash fiction, poetry, six-word stories, micro-plays, micro-screenplays, and illustrations – Deadline: rolling
BBC Upload – Deadline: rolling
Frequency Theatre Open to Unsolicited Script Submissions (Audio Plays Only) (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling
Scenesaver – digital performance platform – Deadline: rolling
Online Courses & Workshops
Papatango Playwrights’ Studio – Date: not applicable
Royal Court Theatre – 6 Part Video Series on How to Write A Play – Date: live now
Theatre503 Writers’ Programme: Courses, Masterclasses, and Dramaturgy –Dates: various (online and in person)
London Playwrights Zoom – Pride Month: LGBTQ+ Theatre – Date: 3 June 2025
London Playwrights Zoom – Pride Month: LGBTQ+ Musicals– Date: 5 June 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Advanced Playwriting (a 4 week course) – Date: Starts 5 June 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Writing in Regional Dialect – Date: 11 June 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Building the World of your Play – Date: 18 June 2025
London Playwrights Zoom – Pride Month: LGBTQ+ Theatre History – Date: 19 June 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop Pitching your Play – Date: 25 June 2025
BBC Writers Digital Sessions for Screenwriting Students – Dates: 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
With deadlines:
Place Playwrights Circle, Bedford – Dates: various
Calling LGBTQ+ Playwrights! QUEER REFLECTIONS: THEATRE & MEMORY – Deadline: 30 May 2025
Sláinte! Theatre | Short Play Night – Deadline: 30 May 2025
Applications now open for the Lambeth Fringe – Deadline: 31 May 2025
Chesil Theatre | TakeTen New Writing Competition 2025/6- Date: 1 June 2025
Tiny Theatre – Monologues Live! Submissions open– Deadline: 9 June 2025
Global Majority Theatre Arts Online Mentorship Application – Deadline: 10 June 2025
The Writers’ Block | Stage Writing for Commission – Deadline: 19 June 2025
Theatre of the Gentle Furies are seeking to commission a global majority writer – Deadline: 29 June 2025
Cardboard Citizens: Accepting Monologues- Deadline: 30 June 2025
Pentabus: applications for the 2026 Jerwood Writer in Residence are now open – Deadline: 14 July 2025
ITC INTERNATIONAL THEATER COMPETITION – Open for Submissions – Deadline: 25 December 2025
Rolling deadlines:
JDAL is inviting script submissions for its next New Writing Showcase – Deadline: rolling
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 Nights – Deadline: 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 Submissions – Deadline: 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
In person workshops and events
Script East Midlands Monthly meet-ups, booking required – Dates: various
Script East Midlands | Mix Up – Deadline: 11 July 2025
Short Courses from The Guildhall – Dates: various
Writing Workshop with Simon Stephens in Milan – Dates: 14 & 15 June 2025
Roundhouse London: Creative Drop-ins – Dates: various
Aberystwyth University Scriptwriting Society – Dates: various in term time (non-students welcome)
Create Writing Workshops – Dates: Various (in person and Zoom)
Scriptwriting East Midlands – Dates: various
Sign Up to the Bread & Roses Theatre Writers Membership! – Dates: not applicable/ various events
Liverpool’s Royal Court – Stage Write Nights – Dates: various
Womxn Who Make Funny Films – Dates: various
Messy Writers: Monthly London Meet-Ups – – Dates: monthly
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