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Digital, Audio & Screen
With deadlines:
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire | Short Film Script Submissions 2025 – Deadline: 10 February 2025
Story Piano: Composers and Writers for Online Platforms – Deadline: 16 February 2025
NFTS Diverse Writers Development Programme – Deadline: 17 February 2025
Creative Black Country | Black Country Digital Firsts (open to writers from the Black Country) – Deadline: 20 February 2025
Greenlight Screenwriting Lab 2025 – Deadline: 3 March 2025
The Comedy Unit | Noising Up! – Deadline: every Monday
The Skewer for Radio 4 seeking ideas – Deadlines: Saturdays/ Wednesdays
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
RE-INSPIRE – online coaching and mentoring programme
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – LGBTQ+ Theatre – Date: 11 February 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Building the World of your Play – Date: 12 February 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Verbatim and Testimonial Theatre with Kate Austen – Date: 18 February 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Self-Producing your Play – Date: 20 February 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Writing in Regional Dialect – Date: 25 February 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Creative Writing for Beginners – Date: Starts 26 February 2025 for six weeks
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Promoting yourself and your play – Date: 27 February 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – The Redrafting Programme 2025 – Date: Starts 6 March 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Creating Historic Characters – Date: 6 March 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Writing Musical Theatre – Date: 20 March 2025
London Playwrights Zoom Workshop – Using Scrivener to Write Plays – Date: 27 March 2025
BBC Writers Digital Sessions for Screenwriting Students – Dates: various
NT Playwriting Masterclasses – 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:
Nearside Productions | Flesh & Blood Stories – Deadline: 6 February 2025
Doncaster People’s Theatre – Writer (South Yorkshire Writers/ paid) – Deadline: 10 February 2025
Anthroplay Theatre | Anthrotalks – Deadline: 13 February and then various – 2025
Writer (JAM) – Scratch night call out – Deadlines: 13 February 2025 and 13 March 2025
Barbara Hofling – MD of the German Choir of London: looking for a playwright for a short play (paid) – Deadline: 15 February 2025
The Play Lottery 2025 – Deadline: 18 February 2025 & 18 March 2025
METEATRA Short Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 21 February 2025
Lincoln Arts Centre: Innovate Artists – Deadline: 24 February 2025
Call for submissions for special anthology of one minute horror plays – Deadline: 25 February 2025
London Library: Emerging Writers Programme – Deadline: 26 February 2025
Artist Commission Jumped Up Theatre – Deadline: 10 March 2025
The Script’s The Thing 2 – Deadline: 21 March 2025
Optik Theatre accepting submissions for Script Room (paid) – Deadline: 31 March 2025
The Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2025 – Deadline: 1 April 2025
Ambassador Peel Playwriting Challenge 2025 – Deadline: 4 April 2025
The Women’s Prize for Playwriting – Deadline: 22 April 2025
The Oxford/42 New Writing Prize – Deadline: 30 April 2025
Barnstormers Amateur Dramatic Society, Minehead, West Somerset – accepting 10-20 minute plays (unpaid) – Deadline: 30 April 2025
Royal Court: Young Playwrights Award – Deadline: not yet posted/ just announced
Rolling deadlines:
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
Aberystwyth University Scriptwriting Society – Dates: various in term time (non-students welcome)
Theatre503 Writers’ Programme 2025 – Date: various from January 2025
REFinE Writing Workshops – Dates: various (in person and Zoom)
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
Writing and Theatre Jobs
We include writing and theatre jobs which we think will be relevant to our readers.
Lead Writer Role (Children and Young People) – Beyond The Spectrum in Bradford District – Deadline: 17 February 2025
Shadow Writer Role (Children and Young People) – Beyond The Spectrum in Bradford District – Deadline: 17 February 2025