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16 April 14 · Education / Opportunities
BBC Writersroom are giving 40 aspiring screen, stage and radio writers the opportunity to attend a practical, hands-on workshop at The Lowry, Salford. It will take place on Tuesday 8 July 2014. The workshop will take place from 2pm to 5pm, with a free lunch being served at 1pm fo
Read with a free account →15 April 14 · Opportunities
Pint-sized Plays is now in its seventh year and recognised as one of the leading international competitions for short 5-10 minute plays. The 2014 competition is now open. Plays can be poignant, funny or downright hilarious, but they have to be between 5 and 10 minutes long with o
Read with a free account →14 April 14 · 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
Read with a free account →11 April 14 · 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). Applications now open for the Live Theatre Playwriting course – Deadline: 6 April 2014 11 April 2014 NEWSBOY seeking short plays about col
Read with a free account →10 April 14 · Opportunities
The Yale Drama Series is an annual, international competition for emerging playwrights. The winner is awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of the winning play by Yale University Press and a staged reading. The reading of the 2013 winning play will take pla
Read with a free account →04 April 14 · Opportunities
The 2014 Alfed Fagon Award for Best New Play of the Year supported by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, is now open for applications. The winner will receive £6000. Eligibility and Criteria: The award is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK. The p
Read with a free account →04 April 14 · 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). Play Submissions Helper publishes contests with April deadlines – Deadline: various MT Pockets Theatre seeking submissions for 10 Minute P
Read with a free account →02 April 14 · Opportunities
Organised Chaos Productions is now accepting scripts for its’ 2014 script call. The company is based in Manchester and the winning script(s) will receive a debut production at the Lowry as well as the possibility of a North West tour. Guidelines: Your submission must be: Original
Read with a free account →02 April 14 · Writing Workshops
you just don’t have as long to tell your story! With this in mind, IdeasTap is offering 20 members the chance to attend two screenwriting workshops designed to take you through the mechanics of short film scriptwriting. The workshops will be held in London on 14 and 21 May 2014 f
Read this article →01 April 14 · Opportunities
Are you aged 15-24? Do you love comedy? Do you like to have your voice heard? And would you like to see your ideas on screen? Well, this is an opportunity for you to have your comic writing performed by excellent funny people and have it broadcast on bbc.co.uk. Deadline now exten
Read with a free account →28 March 14 · 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). Character Invasion Day with BBC Radio 4 – Deadline: workshop takes place on 29th March 2014 but you need to book in advance Sky Blue Theat
Read with a free account →27 March 14 · Opportunities
Good news for all those who need a little extra time! The deadline for the Theatre503 Playwriting Award has been extended to 7 April 2014. Now there’s no excuse not to submit, right?
Read with a free account →27 March 14 · News
As reported in The Stage: Rory Mullarkey has won the 2014 Pinter Commission playwriting award, which sees a new work by the winner supported by London’s Royal Court Theatre. The prize is now in its third year and is given to any playwright, whether they be established or unpublis
Read this article →26 March 14 · Opportunities
Submissions sought for the 2nd Annual M. T. Pockets Theatre 10-Minute Play Contest, celebrating playwrights–emerging and professional– and culminating in a bare bones production of the top 6 to 8 submissions. What to submit: Limit of TWO entries per playwright. Only original play
Read with a free account →26 March 14 · Events
The Tricycle Theatre will be holding a special screening of Abi Morgan’s latest project ‘The Invisible Woman’, which will feature a Q&A with her afterwards. This is a brilliant chance to hear one of the most prolific and successful writers for stage and screen talk about the proc
Read this article →25 March 14 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in April 2014. As usual, we’ve already picked and posted the ones we’ve found most relevant (most of these are based in the US), but if you’d like to peruse the whole
Read with a free account →25 March 14 · Opportunities
The next BBC Writersroom submission window is coming soon, and geared at COMEDY. Scriptroom 6 will open at 10am on Monday 28th April and close at midnight on Monday 12th May. This year they are accepting submissions by genre. For Scriptroom 6, they will only be accepting Comedy (
Read with a free account →21 March 14 · 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). Young playwright wanted for Gretna WWI Commemoration Project – Deadline: None posted Short plays required for TAPSO (new writing event) –
Read with a free account →20 March 14 · Opportunities
Submissions are now open for BARE ESSENTIALS, a night created to showcase new and emerging theatrical talent. See your work staged and performed by experienced and professional actors and directors, all of whom have worked with Encompass who have been mounting productions and eve
Read with a free account →20 March 14 · Education
On Saturday 29 March 2014, Radio 4 explores all things character. Character Invasion Day combines an on-air celebration of how the characters we love have been written, created and bought to life with a day of free events in all the BBC sites that make Radio Drama. You can listen
Read this article →19 March 14 · Opportunities
First launched in 2006, Guiding Lights is the UK film industry’s leading mentoring programme. Applications are now open for Guiding Lights 2014, which will select a group of talented writers, directors and producers to take part in a sixth edition of the scheme, set to launch in
Read with a free account →19 March 14 · News
The winners of the £12,000 Perfect Pitch Award have been announced! Chris Bush and Matthew Winkworth won with their pitch for the new musical ‘Odd’, which retells the story of the Odyssey through the eyes of a modern-day teenage girl. They were selected by a panel of industry exp
Read this article →18 March 14 · Opportunities
The BBC Writersroom opened yesterday for submissions of TV Drama, and will accept scripts until 31 March 2014. Make sure you get your script in if you’d like them to look at it, as this is the only submission window dedicated to TV Drama in 2014! (Later submission windows will fo
Read with a free account →14 March 14 · 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). All the Pigs Theatre running a script writing workshop (£50/£40 concs) – Workshop date: 15 March 2014 Plain Sight – call for submissions f
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