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03 July 26 · Opportunities
Submit Your Short Play to INK Festival 2027 Open to emerging and established writers, INK has built a reputation as one of the UK’s leading platforms for new writing. 70 original plays will be selected for professional production and performance in April 2027 for the 11th INK Fes
Read with a free account →30 January 25 · Opportunities
Hello! We’re launching a new channel on TikTok and Instagram that brings composers and writers together, called Story Piano. The idea is we read aloud beautiful writing alongside equally beautiful piano, record it, and share it on socials. We will give you a professional recordin
Read with a free account →12 December 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
EAL CONTENTMENT is a 9-month artist exchange programme that will be the start of a lasting partnership between Manchester and Nanjing, both UNESCO Cities of Literature and UNESCO Cities of Lifelong Learning. Collaborations between six artists – poets, illustrators and playwrights
Read with a free account →12 December 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
The Union Theatre, in association with Off Main Stage, are looking for plays for their inaugural double-night of shorts. As part of the Union Theatre’s in-house productions, the shorts (drama and musicals) will be performed by professional actors in London and directed by industr
Read with a free account →12 December 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
The 2024/25 Prize has no theme. Entrants can write about anything that inspires them. There are five categories, short stories, poetry, children’s literature, scriptwriting and new for this year, Flash fiction. There are three age groups: primary, secondary and over 18’s. Entrant
Read with a free account →12 December 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
Experimental Theater Writing Workshop – Winter 2025 Seeking female or female-identifying experimental writers for the Experimental Theater Writing Workshop. This is a series of ten Zoom classes held Tuesday evenings from 01/07 – 03/11. Classes will consist of discussions of homew
Read with a free account →28 November 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
Take part in our Christmas Raffle for the chance to win a year of dramaturgy from London Playwrights.* Runner up prizes include Script Consulting Packages and an annual membership. GET YOUR TICKETS HERE. Cost: £2 per ticket *A year of Dramaturgy includes monthly meet-ups with a d
Read with a free account →27 November 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
Job Summary The Royal Court Theatre is hiring a New Plays Associate to play a key role within our artistic team. Job Description This position will oversee our Open Submissions programme and engage with emerging and established playwrights. The New Plays Associate will guide a te
Read with a free account →27 November 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
New work is at the heart of the Everyman & Playhouse – and the Playwrights’ Programme is part of our mission to nurture, empower and champion the next generation of writers in Liverpool. It’s a free, ten-month programme led by our New Works Associate, and offers a mixture of faci
Read with a free account →30 May 23 · Opportunities
Join actor and best-selling author Rebecca Humphries for The Rules of Comedy at The Mono Box! Over 3 sessions, you’ll explore new forms of comic storytelling – looking at their specific sets of rules and picking up tips on how to apply them. Rebecca will impart advice, encourage
Read with a free account →27 April 23 · Opportunities
The Woven Voices Prize for Playwriting platforms the voices of migrant playwrights in the UK, staging their work in the heart of the West End. Returning for a second year following the success of the inaugural award, the Woven Voices Prize celebrates migrant writers, an underrepr
Read with a free account →23 March 23 · Opportunities
At HOME with Jerwood will support four artists to make a step change in their practice and careers. This opportunity is open to individuals and companies across all art forms who are: Currently living and making work in the North West In their first three to ten years of practice
Read with a free account →09 January 23 · Opportunities
Premiere the Play – the Podcast – submissions now open for our 2024 Season! “Premiere the Play” is a podcast featuring audio performances of new stage plays. The podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms. Submissions are now open for our fourth season, coming in 2024! D
Read with a free account →29 July 22 · Opportunities
This 90 minutes workshop will focus on developing existing work for audio. Using exercises and discussion, we will explore the ways in which audio differs from other forms and focus specifically on scene setting, character and structure. Writers of all levels are welcome to this
Read with a free account →01 June 22 · Forms
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Read this article →10 January 22 · Opportunities
“Premiere the Play” is a podcast featuring audio performances of new stage plays. The podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms. Submissions are now open for our third season, coming in 2023! DEADLINE: Monday, January 17 th , 2022. Entry Fee: None! Guidelines: Our goa
Read with a free account →24 November 21 · Opportunities / Original Content
FIELDNOTES in inviting submissions in the form of audio samples and/or written proposals for audio content, welcoming formats from readings to field recordings, music, soundworks and all things between, as well as proposals for longer forms such as interviews, conversations or po
Read with a free account →13 January 21 · Opportunities
Literature Wales recognises the impact COVID-19 has on well-being and mental health and how it has increased loneliness and isolation for many people. Literature in all its forms can help bring people together and give voice to the voiceless during these challenging times. Litera
Read with a free account →13 January 21 · Opportunities
FUTURE FORMS will be an 8 week investigative course for writers that will offer participants the opportunity to interrogate the story telling potential and social implications of new technologies such as AI, virtual, augmented and mixed reality and other areas of technological ad
Read with a free account →09 December 20 · Opportunities
45 North are offering 3 seed commissions to trans and gender non-conforming artists looking to develop an idea for live theatre. They include all forms of gender diversion under this banner including Non-binary people, and especially encourage QTPOC artists to apply. They are kee
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
SUBMISSIONS CALL-OUT FOR FEMALE IDENTIFYING PLAYWRIGHTS/WRITERS/PERFORMERS/DIRECTORS Empower Her Voice are looking for submissions from female-identifying writers for our THIRD scratch night online. It will be a beautifully curated evening of different forms of theatre. The night
Read with a free account →16 September 20 · Opportunities
ALL-OUT FOR FEMALE IDENTIFYING PLAYWRIGHTS/WRITERS/PERFORMERS/DIRECTORS Empower Her Voice are looking for submissions from female-identifying writers for their SECOND scratch night online. It will be a beautifully curated evening of different forms of theatre. The night will be a
Read with a free account →14 September 20 · Forms
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Read this article →07 September 20 · Opportunities
SUBMISSIONS CALL-OUT FOR FEMALE IDENTIFYING PLAYWRIGHTS/WRITERS/PERFORMERS/DIRECTORS Empower Her Voice are looking for submissions from female-identifying writers for their SECOND scratch night online. It will be a beautifully curated evening of different forms of theatre. The ni
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