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10 June 16 · Events / Opportunities
London Playwrights Workshop is delighted to be a partner for London Writers’ Week 2016. For The Dark Horse Festival, we’ve worked to find the best unproduced scripts in London, that represent the innovative, vibrant, and diverse new writing happening in our city. During the proce
Read with a free account →08 June 16 · Opportunities
The final professional development creative day of Juno’s year 1 is on Saturday 23 July 2016 and offers 8 women playwrights the chance to work on a short piece of comic scripts. They are looking for a female writer/ director with a record of developing comic drama to lead this da
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The Black Theatre Live national touring consortium is inviting expression of interest applications for the 3rd mid scale touring / co-production for 2017-18. MAIN CRITERIA For clarity, the “mid-scale Black Theatre Live tour” is understood to mean predominantly narrative/text base
Read with a free account →08 June 16 · Events / Writing Workshops
If you’re interested in sitcoms then Salford should rock your world on the 5th and 6th July because the 2016 Salford Sitcom Showcase is coming to town! BBC Writersroom, in collaboration with Salford University, MediaCityUK, is running a series of panels and masterclasses for aspi
Read this article →08 June 16 · Opportunities / Pick of the Week
Each week we look through our pile of writing opportunities to pick out one we think is particularly worth your time. It could be an innovative brief, great prize money, a high-profile company, or just plain fun. This week’s pick: Talawa Seeking Theatre Makers Aged 18-25 for TYPT
Read with a free account →07 June 16 · Jobs / Opportunities
Lit Up! and Poole Libraries are delighted to announce they are seeking to appoint a freelance Writer in Residence to work with libraries, staff and visitors in the summer of 2016. It’s envisaged the successful candidate will deliver workshops that interact with current library in
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Tetrad are excited to announce a brand new opportunity for artists and creative writers. Tetrad are happy to announce that they will be releasing an online digital magazine in autumn 2016, and are on the lookout for contributions that fit the Brief: The Drawing Board. Tetrad’s fi
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Submissions are now being accepted for the Sultan Padamsee Award for Playwriting, 2016. The deadline is 31 August, 2016 and entrants should be ‘a person of Indian origin from any country’. The organisers are looking for plays 75 – 120 mins in duration and the works must be in Eng
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Musical Theatre Studio is a platform for developing new musical theatre before it hits the West End. “We launch our first Musical Theatre Studio presentations on 22, 23, and 24 July 2016 in collaboration with The Space theatre. This is an amazing opportunity for musical theatre m
Read with a free account →05 June 16 · Funding and Bursaries / Opportunities
Shonibare Studio is the studio of artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. The studio also hosts a project space that serves a laboratory of artistic experimentation. Guest Projects is an initiative concieved by Shonibare Studio (UK) to offer an opportunity for projects of any artistic discip
Read with a free account →04 June 16 · Opportunities
Each year, the Foundation of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences administers the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award. The competition is designed to motivate non-American novice writers under the age of 30, and to offer them the recognition and en
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Ignite Theatre is seeking script submissions for its 2017 season. What to submit: Plays should be 70-90 minutes in length, and must not have been submitted or produced elsewhere. (You can check out their company aims for a clearer idea of what they’re looking for.) How to apply:
Read with a free account →03 June 16 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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 Even
Read with a free account →03 June 16 · Events / Writing Workshops
NAWE Workshop with ‘Myths of the Near Future’ Journal Saturday July 9th 2016 from 10am-12pm Part of London Writers’ Week 2016 The NAWE Young Writers’ Hub is an information resource, online community and development agency for young writers and publishes a triennial journal of new
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Tamasha “New Families” Scratch Night Event with Arts Council England Friday July 8th 2016 from 7.30-9pm Part of London Writers’ Week 2016 A selection of pieces inspired by the experiences of people born by assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). Award-winning playwright Satind
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How can theatre writers make the transition to writing for radio and screen? Event with BBC Writersroom Friday July 8th 2016 from 2-3pm Part of London Writers’ Week 2016 Join Head of BBC Writersroom Anne Edyvean for this free discussion on how theatre writers can make the transit
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Grants for the Arts and funding priorities for theatre Event with Arts Council England Friday July 8th 2016 from 11am-12pm Part of London Writers’ Week 2016 In this free event, a representative from the Arts Council will be in conversation with Jennifer Tuckett, Director of Londo
Read with a free account →02 June 16 · Education / Events
New Writing Platform with Tim Crouch Thursday July 7th 2016 from 7-8.30pm Part of London Writers’ Week 2016 The new MA Dramatic Writing at Drama Centre London at Central Saint Martins is delighted to announce the tenth event in their New Writing Platform series. The tenth New Wri
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Too true? The aesthetics and ethics of fact-based theatre Event with Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Wednesday July 6th 2016 from 4-5.30pm Part of London Writers’ Week 2016 Fact-based theatre has been among the dominant drama forms of this century. Why is this so? How is it made
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The bit that isn’t the songs: book writing for musical theatre Event with Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Wednesday July 6th 2016 from 2-3pm Part of London Writers’ Week 2016 Most people can probably hum a show tune, and musicals are often known by the names of the songwriters, b
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The National Student Writing Award Launch Wednesday July 6th 2016 from 11am-12pm Part of London Writers’ Week 2016 This event will launch The National Student Writing Award, the new award open to students studying writing at University level across the UK. Come along to the launc
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The Student Guide to Writing: Playwriting showcase Tuesday 5th 2016 from 7.30-8.30pm Part of London Writers’ Week 2016 Come along to see the winners’ play for The Student Guide to Writing: Playwriting, the new competition from the Bush Theatre, MA Dramatic Writing at Drama Centre
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The Student Guide to Writing: Playwriting showcase Tuesday 5th 2016 from 4-5pm Part of London Writers’ Week 2016 Come along to see the winners’ play for The Student Guide to Writing: Playwriting, the new competition from the Bush Theatre, MA Dramatic Writing at Drama Centre Londo
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Oberon Books Workshop: Theatre publishing – how does it work? Tuesday 5th 2016 from 12-1pm Part of London Writers’ Week 2016 In this free discussion, Senior Editor at Oberon Books, one of the UK’s leading theatre publishers, George Spender will be In Conversation with Director of
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