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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 grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Events; 4) Ongoing opportunities (No deadline).
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Featured posts:
Happy New Year from London Playwrights’ Blog & Workshop!
#WrAP is back for 2019! Write a play this January!
LPW: FREE #WrAP2019 feedback session & member meetup!
LPB Members: Online Course – Writing in Dialect: How to Listen, What to Write
Our latest opportunities Pick of the Week: Papatango New Writing Prize 2019 open for entries
Pursued by a Bear: “What’s the best way to write fantasy for the stage?”
Opportunities with deadlines:
BBC Writersroom announces submission window for Script Room Drama 2019 – Deadline: 7 January 2018
Persistent and Nasty seeking submissions on ‘hope for the future’ – Deadline: 7 January 2018 at 5pm
Free Spirit Theatre seeking original play for production in Spring 2019 – Deadline: 8 January 2019
UGC Writers’ Campus – Series Mania: accepting applications – Deadline: 9 January 2019
ReWrite script development event with In Motion Theatre Company (Glasgow) – Deadline: 11 January 2019
King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal seeking 10 minute plays for festival ($15 entry fee)- Deadline: 14 January 2019
BBC Doctors – Directors’ Scheme: open for applications – Deadline: 14 January 2019
The Forestry Commission: Writers in the Forest new writing competition: open for entries – Deadline: 14 January 2019
Female Birmingham Writers/Artists, Near Neighbours & Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery – Deadline: 18 January 2019
The Actors Centre & Viola! Europe seeking new work for festival – Deadline: 18 January 2019
Caspa Arts seeking 5-15 minute plays for scratch night – Deadline: 20 January 2019
STAGE IT! 10-Minute Play Festival and Book Publication– Deadline; 21 January 2019
Optik Theatre: The Script Room – call out for scripts – Deadline: 31 January 2019
IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship open for applications- Deadline: 31 January 2019 at 5pm
Drip Action Theatre Company: Arundel Festival Theatre Trail open for submissions – Deadline: 31 January 2018
Leeds Playhouse script window will be open on 1 January 2019 – Deadline: 31 January 2019
The Bush Theatre script submission window now open– Deadline: 1 February 2019
Toi Toi, Teatru Manoel (Malta) seeking one act plays on the theme of ‘Breaking the Rules ‘ – Deadline: 1 February 2019
Northern Writers’ Awards 2019 open for entries – Deadline: 7 February 2019
Papatango New Writing Prize 2019 open for entries – Deadline: 17 February 2019
Green Curtain Theatre seeking one act plays on the theme of ‘breaking away‘ – Deadline: 28 February 2019
Capital Stage accepting submissions for Playwrights’ Revolution Festival – Deadline: 28 February 2019
The Comedy Crowd: accepting submissions for Punkanary – Deadline: 28 February 2019
Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing open for entries – Deadline: 5 March 2019
University Women In The Arts Announces Partnerships With Leading Arts Organisations On Project To Tackle Abuse In The Arts– Deadline: 15 March 2019
Langham Court Theatre announces Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition ($45 entry) – Deadline: 29 March 2019
Carlo Annoni Award 2019 open for entries – Deadline: 30 April 2019
Green Stories Stage Play Writing Competition open for entries – Deadline: 30 June 2019
Events and workshops:
The Director’s Cut hosting The Writer’s Club – Next term starts January 2019
Writing your own role: workshop with Lydia Parker at the Actors’ Centre – Dates: find out more on the website
The Old Vic – Workshops for Artists – Dates: various throughout January 2019
Chichester Festival Theatre: Get Playwriting! course open for bookings – Dates: Starts 15 January 2019
Drama Studio London: Writing For The Theatre – Playwriting Course 2019 – Dates: Starts 15 January 2018
Women’s Writing Workshop with Actor Awareness (University Women in the Arts) – Date: 22 January 2018
Writing Scripted Comedy with Chris Neilan – a one day workshop (Manchester) – Date: 28 January 2019
Papercut Theatre: Redrafting and Structure workshop with Melissa Dunne – Date: 2 February 2019
Clean Break: An Introduction to writing for theatre in criminal justice settings – Date: 8 February 2019
Writing West Midlands: Short course in playwriting – Dates: Starts 26 February 2019
LPW: FREE #WrAP2019 feedback session & member meetup!Date: 2 March 2019
Writing for Television: Residential workshop with Roy Mitchell – Dates: 20-24 May 2018
Online workshops and resources:
Stagedoor App Podcast (Bridget Minamore and Chris Campbell of the Royal Court’s Literary Office)
Access the Royal Court’s Playwrights’ Podcast
Bloomsbury Publishing: How to get your play published (view live stream of talk)
WGGB launches FREE Musical Theatre Kit
An Introduction to Screenwriting: free online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia
LPB Summer Sessions: Overcoming writers’ block (online workshop)
LPB Summer Sessions: How to write a monologue (online workshop)
LPB Summer Sessions: Promoting yourself as a writer (online workshops)
LPB Members: Online Course – Writing in Dialect: How to Listen, What to Write – Available now