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22 July 20 · Opportunities
From social media marketing, to writing a great email to agents, venues and directors, to keeping a solid database and applying for competitions, this workshop will teach you how to promote and manage your writing and how to treat your writing as a business. There will be plenty
Read with a free account →22 July 20 · Opportunities
Warts and All Theatre have some awesome Q&A’s coming up with some incredible creatives. This Thursday 23rd July at 5pm, they are joined by the incredible April De Angelis, who will share her vast knowledge of theatre and a variety of stories from her career with you! Tickets are
Read with a free account →22 July 20 · Opportunities
RADA is delighted to be a partner on a new playwriting development scheme for young writers and creatives aged 16-25. IGNITE Science Radio Drama is a new initiative that aims to fuse science, sound and story to create short immersive audio dramas. Supported by the Royal Society o
Read with a free account →22 July 20 · Opportunities
“This is your beginners call” Hearing this backstage always brings about a wave of nervousness and excitement. This sense of anticipation is something we believe everyone can relate to, especially in 2020. The past 7 months alone have seen huge and important changes to the world
Read with a free account →22 July 20 · Opportunities
Our friends at Box of Tricks Theatre Company have opened a two month submission window for their 2021 PlayBox Writer Development Programme for North West Playwrights. Committed to championing unheard voices and amplifying untold stories, Box of Tricks especially welcomes submissi
Read with a free account →21 July 20 · Opportunities
EGM Productions Theatre Company is looking for writers for a New Audio Drama Podcast, titled ‘They’re Only Stories…’ ‘They’re Only Stories’ is an audio drama podcast that celebrates spooky stories, the locations that inspire and the writers who create these stories. Each episode
Read with a free account →21 July 20 · News
THANK YOU! We hope you’re doing well during this challenging year. We just wanted to take a moment to say thank you and to let you know how grateful we are for your continued support, which is needed more than ever during these turbulent times. Whether you are paying member, an a
Read this article →21 July 20 · Opportunities
This writing contest is all about book blurbs. The twist? We want blurbs about completely made-up, nonexistent books. Get creative! Write and submit a back cover blurb of 100 words or fewer that sets the stage for a novel, establishes the characters, and raises the stakes in a wa
Read with a free account →20 July 20 · Opportunities
SUBMISSIONS CALL-OUT FOR FEMALE IDENTIFYING PLAYWRIGHTS/WRITERS/PERFORMERS Empower Her Voice are looking for submissions from female-identifying writers for a fortnightly scratch night online. It will be a beautifully curated evening of different forms of theatre. Each fortnight,
Read with a free account →20 July 20 · Opportunities
Script Submissions for ANPF 2021 Now Being Accepted Ashland, Oregon – Ashland New Plays Festival’s flagship Fall Festival is an international playwright competition that culminates in the reading of four new plays chosen from hundreds of submissions by a team of volunteer readers
Read with a free account →17 July 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support us? Become a member today for less than £4! Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities and news. Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! Featured posts: **Update: Covid-19 and our work**
Read with a free account →15 July 20 · 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: Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award #2 Desc
Read with a free account →14 July 20 · Opportunities
There is now an opportunity to get your creative writing published in an exciting new venue (Extinction Rebellion’s Creative Hub). Send them your poetry, prose, scripts or songs on the subject of the current climate crisis and possible aftermaths. To see pieces already published
Read with a free account →14 July 20 · Opportunities
Tanaka Mhishi (OFFIE Nominated Writer) will be running a “Pay What You Can” workshop for KickItDown Productions. About: Some of the best plays require us to tackle subjects which can be difficult and traumatic, and all too often we find ourselves unsure of how to handle them. Thi
Read with a free account →14 July 20 · Opportunities
The Introductory Writers’ Groups are opportunity for writers with little or no experience and lots of raw talent to think more deeply about writing for theatre alongside a group of their peers, guided by experienced produced playwrights. The group meets one evening per week for e
Read with a free account →14 July 20 · Opportunities
Hi! GhostCow Productions is a new North West based production company, and they are running an online scratch event at the moment where they share a new prompt each week for people to write a short monologue to be performed. This week the prompt is ‘How to change your life’ and t
Read with a free account →14 July 20 · Opportunities
The accomplished playwriting competition is now open for 2020 to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK, for the best original, for a new stage play in English. Find out all the details and apply here. Deadline: 31 July 2020 Source: Playwriting UK Face
Read with a free account →14 July 20 · Opportunities
Bristol Old Vic‘s annual call-out to West Country writers is open now. ‘The Open Session’ window has been extended in this unusual year, with 31st July being the final date for entries. Bristol Old Vic invites plays and musicals from local writers, with five chosen for developmen
Read with a free account →14 July 20 · Opportunities
Scriptwriters & Co’s next virtual Networking and Scratch Night will take place online at 7.00pm on Tuesday 4 August 2020. Their submissions window is now open to writers anywhere in the world. This month they’re looking for complete 10-minute plays, screenplays or radio plays (no
Read with a free account →14 July 20 · Opportunities
2020 Vision’ is an opportunity for 6 artists from different disciplines to deliver a professionally filmed online workshop. There will be an opportunity to be coached by a producer, a film-maker/editor and a writer in the creation of your online presentation, creating a professio
Read with a free account →14 July 20 · Uncategorized
Eclectic Full Contact Theatre is seeking submissions for an upcoming monthly podcast highlighting audio scripts from primarily women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ authors. They are seeking shows between 10-30 minutes long, on any subject, any genre. There will be pay. They are also seeking
Read this article →14 July 20 · Events / Opportunities
Following on from their double-bill of DIFFERENT SAND & WILLOW at the Bunker Theatre, Lemon House Theatre are hosting a new six-part series of talks where they chat to Queer artists and artists from the MENA diaspora about their experiences in theatre. Presented by Lemon House Th
Read with a free account →14 July 20 · Events / Opportunities
These Streets: Class in the Arts nterrogates class imbalance in the arts, the project began on stage at Theatre 503 and is now adapted for the screen. Find out more about the project here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/these-streets-class-in-the-arts/coming_soon/x/24002971 D
Read with a free account →10 July 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support us? Become a member today for less than £4! Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities and news. Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! Featured posts: **Update: Covid-19 and our work**
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