Opportunities Weekly Round-up: 7 April 2023

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London Playwrights’ Latest Projects

 

The Literary Series: Interviews with Literary Managers, Dramaturgs and New Work Associates – New Episodes Live NOW (Josh Elliott from Graeae Theatre// Tom Wright from The Kiln Theatre// Fleur Hebditch)

 

Pay it Forward for Playwrights: A new initiative to help support writers

  

Playwriting Real-life: London Playwrights Podcast live now! New episode – Redrafting Tips! 

 

Members’ Zoom Drop-in session: share your work, meet other writers – first Wednesday of each month!

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London Playwrights’ Latest Zoom Workshops

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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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Latest News

 

DH Ensemble & Solar Bear: (Un)scripted – a series of short films focused on exploring the possibilities of working with deaf and hearing artists


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.  

Devon and Cornwall Screenwriting Group Deadline: not applicable

Red Human Films accepting submissions – Deadline 10 April 2023

The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award 2023 – Deadline: 11 April 2023

Northern English writers wanted for audio drama – ‘Scuttled’ – Deadline: 11 April 2023

Evening Standard | Stories Competition – Deadline: 12 April 2023

Yorick Radio – Submissions window now open – Deadline: 30 April 2023

Dramatists Guild – End of Play 2023 Deadline: 31 April 2023

New Writing North | Channel 4 Writing for Television Awards 2023 Deadline: 5 June 2023

Rolling deadlines:

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

Paines Plough – Open Writer’s Labs Deadline: not speficied

The Writers Hour- virtual writing sprints by London Writers’ Salon – Daily

Scratch Me 2022 – Public Programme – Dates: various

Flux Writers Membership

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

Hyphen Artist Collective – Show Up And Write Dates: various throughout April 2023

London Playwrights Zoom Workshops: Playwriting Lab with Max Wilkinson – Dates: starts 6 April 2023 (10 weeks)

Down Stage Write – Redrafting with Clive Judd – Date: 15 April 2023

The Mono Box – Writing Great Dialogue with Isley Lynn Dates: 17 & 18 April 2023

#WrAP2023 Redrafting Workshop (Zoom) – Date: 19 April 2023

Nothing for Nothing- Unlimited  Date: 20 April 2023

London Playwrights Lunchtime Sessions: Pitching your play – Date: 26 April 2023

London Playwrights Lunchtime Sessions : Focus on the 5 Act Structure Date: 18 May 2023

London Playwrights Lunchtime Sessions: Writing in Regional Dialect – Date: 25 May 2023

London Playwrights Zoom Workshops: TV Writing Dates: starts 6 June 2023 for 6 weeks

Pride Month LGBTQ+ Theatre Workshops  (Theatre/ History/ Activism/ Drop-in) – Dates: various throughout June

An Introduction to Screenwriting: online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia (no longer free, subscription costs apply)

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:

Optik Theatre call for scripts for its next Script Room event being held in June (paid) – Deadline:   31 March 2023 10 April 2023

Freshly Squeezed Scratch Night – Deadline: 11 April 2023

WRITER’S RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS OPEN AT DUNEDIN UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE WITH THE CASELBERG TRUST – Deadline: 14 April 2023

London Independent Story Prize (entry fees apply) – Deadline: 15 April 2023

The Women’s Prize for Playwriting – Paines Plough – Deadline: 17 April 2023

Thalia Arts Company – Big Enough to Hang a Life on: A Queer History Scratch Night Deadline: 17 April 2023

The Queens of Cups accepting submissions for New Moon Monologues – Deadline: 20 April 2023

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM 2023 IN KRAKÓW FOR WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS – Deadline: 23 April 2023

Kevin Elyot Award 2023 – Deadline: 23 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

Word Factory launches 2023-4 Apprentice Awards – Deadline: 1 May 2023/ 31 May 2023

 

The Playwright’s Laboratory – The Table Sessions at The Core – Deadline: 1 March/ 1 April/ 1 May 2023

Platform Presents – 2023 Playwright’s Prize Deadline: 15 May 2023

Phoenix Theatre Scratch Night – Deadline: 15 May 2023

Pint-Sized Plays Writing Competition 2023 – Deadline: 31 May 2023

Chesil Theatre | TakeTen New Writing Competition 2023 | Snakes & Ladders – Deadline: 2 June 2023

The North East Playwriting Award – by the Live Theatre and the Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust Deadline: 7 August 2023

Rolling & Unspecified deadlines: 

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:

Blood Beats: LGBTQ+ Writers Group (Manchester) Dates: 3rd Thursday of the month in 2023

New Earth academy plus- for BESEA artists – Various/ also online

The Playwright’s Laboratory Playwrights Networking Events – Pop Up Festival of Plays at the Arcola Theatre – Dates: 27 April 2023/ 4 May 2023

Advanced Producing for Playwrights with Russell Lucas & London Playwrights Dates: 27 & 28 May 2023

Manchester Screenwriting Meet Up – Dates: various (alternates between in person in  and Zoom)

BBC & NFTS – BBC Scholarships – Dates: various

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