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17 July 26 · Opportunities
Spoken Word Event OPEN CALL! We’re looking for a new spoken word event for our Canada Water Theatre venue We’re offering a free 3-hour slot in our 150-seat theatre with venue hire, duty manager, technician, and front of house all provided in-kind. All you need is your vision ✨ Wh
Read with a free account →17 July 26 · Opportunities
We’re delighted to be partnering with Push the Boat Out Festival in selecting the 2027 New Writers Award for Spoken Word. All Spoken Word shortlisted applicants will be invited to perform an excerpt from their application sample at the festival on Thursday 12 November 2026, in fr
Read with a free account →19 December 25 · Opportunities
RAISE THE VIBRATION: V-DAY 2026 SUBMISSION CALL-OUT The Bread & Roses Theatre are looking for monologues or spoken word pieces by women (cis & trans), nb or gender fluid performers or writers to help us Raise the Vibration. Throughout V-DAY’s history, activists and artists have u
Read with a free account →15 August 25 · Opportunities
Literature Works and our partners are looking for a Page of Plymouth writer-in-residence – a poet, writer, storyteller, spoken word artist, lyricist or playwright – to play a central creative role in a unique project funded by a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund @heri
Read with a free account →10 July 25 · Opportunities
Hii Shrews! Welcome to the new wonderful audible project amplifying voices of untamed women, who are looking for artists (writers, spoken word artists, poets…etc) to collaborate with on the upcoming series! We’re on the search for women identifying writers/artists who are 18+ to
Read with a free account →15 May 25 · Opportunities
The STARTS Award is inviting talented scriptwriters from the Armed Forces community to submit work for The STARTS Award 2025 Spoken Word category. The deadline for submissions is 12 noon on 27th June 2025. The STARTS award promotes new talent & creative wellbeing. It is an award
Read with a free account →26 September 24 · Opportunities
LOOKING FOR WRITERS FOR UPCOMING SCRATCH NIGHT Fruitcake Productions is looking for fresh, bold ideas for our upcoming Scratch Night! Whether it’s a work-in-progress play, spoken word, or performance art, we want to hear from creatives ready to share their new, exciting projects.
Read with a free account →18 April 24 · Opportunities
The STARTS Award are inviting talented scriptwriters from The Armed Forces Community to submit work for The STARTS Award 2024 Spoken Word category. The deadline for submissions is 12 noon on 28th June 2024. The STARTS award promotes new talent & creative wellbeing. It is an award
Read with a free account →12 April 24 · Opportunities
We are looking to appoint a writer in residence to connect the landscape and forest inhabitants with wider audiences through written and spoken word. The residency will be based at the Countryside Education Trust in Beaulieu for 40 days, spread over a calendar year. Job Descripti
Read with a free account →16 October 23 · Opportunities
Flawstate Theatre Company are hosting a scratch night celebrating our imperfections with the theme: ‘Flawed & Flawless’ They are looking for ready-to-perform monologues, duologues and spoken word pieces. They will provide: Mentoring and support from the Flawstate team A space to
Read with a free account →23 June 23 · Opportunities
The STARTS Award promotes new talent and creative wellbeing. It is a Spoken Word & Visual Art competition for promising performers and artists connected to the military – currently serving, ex-service personnel, or family members (18+). They are looking for writer/performers who
Read with a free account →17 May 23 · Opportunities
We’re looking for a poet or spoken word artist to produce a poem which will be performed at our event on the evening of Friday 11th August. Research for the poem will take place in July 2023, through meetings and workshops with our Poetry Exchange Hub. Job Description Poet in the
Read with a free account →20 April 23 · Opportunities
CALLING WRITERS, THEATRE MAKERS, STORYTELLERS, SONGWRITERS, SPOKEN WORD ARTISTS Cracking Slate is seeking submissions for its upcoming scratch night Early Dawn at the Golden Goose Theatre on the 22nd of June! It will be a celebration of fresh ideas, warm summer days and the varie
Read with a free account →04 March 23 · Opportunities
Anthroplay are looking for monologues, spoken word, poetry and songs from new and existing writers/performers that revolve around the theme “FEMME” as part of their next Anthrotalks, a new-writing event held at The Hackney Den on the last Thursday of (most) months, to celebrate u
Read with a free account →11 August 22 · Opportunities
Speakbeat Collective is looking for spoken word artists, writers and poets to perform in Pillowtalk Sessions PT.7 Submissions need to respond to the title ‘BREATHE’ The event will be at The Bush Theatre, West London on the evening of Friday 2nd September. Please only apply if you
Read with a free account →05 August 22 · Opportunities
Calling all writers! Itchy Feet Productions is looking for max 10mins (no minimum) monologues, scenes, poetry/spoken word, even songs, for their current project, 12months 12stories! Must be all your own original work. https://www.instagram.com/itchy_feet_productions/ / you can he
Read with a free account →26 May 22 · Opportunities
Speakbeat Collective is looking for spoken word artists, writers and poets to perform in Pillowtalk Sessions PT.6. Pillowtalk Sessions are curated nights of spoken word, poetry, new writing and DJ-ing. They are always full of energy, truth and brilliant mixes. Check out Speakbeat
Read with a free account →21 April 22 · Opportunities
We are seeking shows for our Summer season in JULY & AUGUST. Slots available between 1 and 5 nights. Emerging talent, new writing, musicals, spoken word, scratch nights, comedy, music all considered. Come and perform with us in the heart of Camberwell! Box Office splits No upfron
Read with a free account →02 February 22 · Opportunities
March’s theme will be “The Witches You Couldn’t Burn” and feature female, non-binary and queer artists. To submit your poem, monologue, spoken-word piece, song, or piece of solo choreography (or anything that one person can do) to our Next New Moon Monologue, we are asking writer
Read with a free account →14 April 21 · Opportunities
To submit your poem, monologue, spoken-word piece, song, or piece of solo choreography (or anything that one person can do) to May’s New Moon Monologue on the theme of “Growing Together”, we are asking writers to donate £3.33. The fee is £33 and every monologue will receive feedb
Read with a free account →23 February 21 · Opportunities
Paid Opportunity for Yorkshire-based Playwright / Poet / Spoken Word Artist FEE £3,100 in instalments DEADLINE 9:00am on Wednesday 10 March 2021 Between June and August 2021, Cast and Public Acts will tour an interactive pop-up theatre adventure from a mobile van. The Fabulous, R
Read with a free account →23 September 20 · Opportunities
The submission window for next month’s New Moon is now Open! FOR WHO: Playwrights, Poets, Spoken Word Artists & New Writers – All Welcome. WHEN: 7pm Friday 16th of October – The September New Moon WHERE: Live on The Queens of Cups Facebook page & YouTube channel. THEME – Break Up
Read with a free account →26 August 20 · Opportunities
WHAT: A New Writing Night WHO: Playwrights, Poets, Spoken Word Artists & New Writers – All Welcome. WHEN: 7.30pm Thursday 17th of September -The September New Moon WHERE: Zoom THEME – 2020 (Interpret this however you please) FORM: A poem or 5 minute monologue, either from the per
Read with a free account →16 June 20 · Opportunities
Are You the Next Spoken Word Star? Words First is a talent development scheme for Spoken Word artists that will run throughout 2020. Selected artists will be given the chance to attend digital workshops in July and August 2020, where they will work with established artists and me
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