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04 October 19 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support LPB? Become a member! 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
Read with a free account →03 October 19 · Opportunities
In this exclusive event for Young Court Friends, playwright Somalia Seaton who is currently running the Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting groups will be sharing an extensive collection of tools for new playwrights to get started. With exercises to kick start ideas, find way
Read with a free account →02 October 19 · News / Original Content
Ok, so it may be only October, but with the nights getting longer and the air getting colder, we thought it was high time we announced #WrAP2020. If you thought January was all about broken resolutions and doom and gloom – think again! Here at London Playwrights we use the first
Read this article →02 October 19 · Guest Post
Writing can be a lonely business but joining (or setting up!) a writers’ group can be a great way to counteract this. In this post, Rebecca Jade Hammond, Artistic Director of Chippy Lane and founder of their Welsh Female Writers Group (WFW), shares her insights; and writers, Faeb
Read this article →02 October 19 · 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: Sparkhaus call out for writers for Ignite 6 scrat
Read with a free account →30 September 19 · Events / Opportunities
Calling all Highland writers. Join the BBC Writersroom Scotland team for a Q&A on breaking into writing for TV and other BBC platforms. Chaired by Angela Galvin, Development Producer at the BBC Writersoom Glasgow base, she’ll be joined by a writer to discuss how to pitch your pro
Read with a free account →30 September 19 · Opportunities
StoryFutures Academy are delighted to invite you to sign up for free, one-day Introductory Labs which they are holding throughout Autumn. Introductory Labs provide a safe space for people to experience first-hand how immersive technologies are already being deployed to tell compe
Read with a free account →30 September 19 · Opportunities
Curious Monkey is recruiting a Freelance Script Writer (with facilitation skills) to work with our TROUPE group to co-create a new play to be performed in July 2020. TROUPE is a group of young people who have experience of the care system, who attend regular theatre trips and wor
Read with a free account →30 September 19 · Opportunities
Are you an early career writer or creator who is interested in creating digital content? Then Visible Fictions want to work with you! Every year Visible Fictions create content to gift to their social media followers at Christmas time, and this year wthey would like to collaborat
Read with a free account →30 September 19 · Opportunities
Upstairs at the Western are are looking for pieces of writing between 10 and 15 minutes of duologue from either a self-contained mini-play or an excerpt from a longer work. The work must be suitable for two female, GNC or non-binary actors. This work must not have been previously
Read with a free account →30 September 19 · Opportunities
Applications are now open for Criterion New Writing 2020 and it’s free to apply and take part. How it works: There will be 3 sets of 6 workshops. Each will welcome 6 writers to the stage of the Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly, for a sequence of highly-focused script development se
Read with a free account →30 September 19 · Opportunities
Playwrights of science fiction, fantasy, horror and speculative plays! You are invited to submit a short play for our scratch night on the evening of Monday 9th December at the Omnibus Theatre during Talos III: Science Fiction Theatre Festival of London. “Hopepunk”, a term invent
Read with a free account →30 September 19 · Opportunities
Writers & Theatre Makers Sparkhaus Theatre are looking for writers and theatre makers who have brand new ideas to try out as part of their 6th scratch night, IGNITE. They are interested in: presenting a space for new ideas to grow, encouraging writers to take risks in a safe spac
Read with a free account →27 September 19 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support LPB? Become a member! 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
Read with a free account →25 September 19 · 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: The Kay Mellor Fellowship – Leeds Playhouse and R
Read with a free account →25 September 19 · Opportunities
SHOOK is a relaxed evening of new work written and performed by millennials, melting into a dj set above The Arts Theatre West End in London. They have their next evening SHOOK: THE THIRD on the 1st December 2019 and are looking for submissions now. The evening is completely free
Read with a free account →25 September 19 · Opportunities
The prize aims to encourage authors in the creation of bold and powerful plays for young audiences (12-21 years old) Rules (summary): . Open to all writers worldwide and there is no age or nationality limit for the entrants. . The play must cater for a performance time of 60-120
Read with a free account →25 September 19 · Opportunities
Leeds Playhouse and Rollem Productions invite applications from writers to The Kay Mellor Fellowship, an exciting, year long dual development opportunity for stage and screen. How to apply: to apply for this role, you will need to visit the Leeds Playhouse website and download th
Read with a free account →25 September 19 · Opportunities
Writing for Stage will equip budding playwrights with the tools to write for live performance. In their words: “Over the course of five weeks, we will focus on developing a different playwriting skill – from crafting dialogue and constructing characters, to structuring your play
Read with a free account →19 September 19 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support LPB? Become a member! 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
Read with a free account →18 September 19 · Opportunities
Sheffield Theatres are looking to find the best new plays in the region and the country. They are seeking work which is bold, brilliant and essential, for plays which reflect the here and now, writing from unique voices with original perspectives, based around ideas not often exp
Read with a free account →18 September 19 · Opportunities
The RSL’s Literature Matters Awards aim to reward and enable literary excellence and innovation. Each year, after an open call for proposals, the Awards are given to individual writers or other literary creators, recognising their past achievements and providing them with financi
Read with a free account →18 September 19 · Opportunities
This prize is awarded annually in memory of Nathan Robert Carr and Milivoy Ivon Webber. The competition genre and theme may change each year. This is the first year of the competition, which is sponsored by Mama Quilla Productions—Art for Change. Mama Quilla spotlights neglected
Read with a free account →18 September 19 · Opportunities
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