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22 September 25 · Uncategorized
Applications for Criterion New Writing 2026 are OPEN. The deadline for applications is midnight on Sunday 12 October 2025. It is FREE to apply and take part. If you wish to apply, you will need to send a single document (file name = your name) by email to gregmosse@gmail.com, inc
Read this article →19 September 25 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →18 September 25 · Opportunities
We are seeking a skilled writer to join the redevelopment of Sound Clash: Death in the Arena, a vibrant, music-driven stage production celebrating the transformative power of Sound System culture in the UK. This paid commission (£6,000–£8,000) will involve reimagining and revisin
Read with a free account →18 September 25 · Opportunities
Suffolk Community Libraries, National Centre for Writing and Suffolk Wildlife Trust are looking for six up-and-coming short-form writers to take part in an intensive residency, engaging creatively with nature, landscape, and communities. Job Description Location(s): Felixstowe Li
Read with a free account →18 September 25 · Opportunities
The Play Lottery is a playwriting contest for writers based anywhere in the UK, with a twist – the winning play is chosen entirely at random. Submissions are open for UK-based playwrights to submit a play with up to 2 performers. The winning play will be chosen randomly and will
Read with a free account →18 September 25 · Opportunities
Following the success of its inaugural edition, applications for Glasgow Film Festival’s innovative UK-wide comedy lab, Funny Features, are now open. The festival is seeking ideas for bold, original features with the potential to become the next big UK comedy hit. The lab, delive
Read with a free account →18 September 25 · Opportunities
Actwrite is seeking London-based screenwriters to join a new project connecting them with professional and trained actors to workshop scripts through in-person table reads. For writers, this is a chance to bring their pilot or series outline into the room, hear their work perform
Read with a free account →17 September 25 · Industry
Blog Post Written by Kay Lynn Err How to Write a Synopsis that Represents Your Work Well You’ve written your play and now comes the synopsis. What is it all about? Many things, of course, but for the purposes of this paragraph we are now setting out to write, what is the story at
Read this article →17 September 25 · Opportunities
If you are looking to develop your craft but need advice, motivation, and practical ideas to help you grow then this new initiative from Kimberley Andrews is for you. With over ten years experience as a dramaturg, mentor, and playwriting tutor, Kimberley offers supportive, encour
Read with a free account →16 September 25 · Resources
Download here: September Goal Setting Substack
Read this article →12 September 25 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →12 September 25 · Opportunities
Quick-fire scratch nights for adventurous new writing in theatre and performance! The Scrap is an open-access night for writers, actors and directors to try out new ideas, meet one another, and showcase their work in front of an audience. Live music, good drinks, and cool new the
Read with a free account →12 September 25 · Opportunities
The purpose of the course is to offer 12 writers new to television drama an insight into how the industry works and to provide a “dry-run” of what it can be like to write under a television drama commission, specifically for one hour series and serial drama, and to work with them
Read with a free account →11 September 25 · Opportunities
The Lambeth Fringe celebrates 10 years, with its biggest festival yet! Over 200 shows across 25 venues in 5 weeks, there is something for everyone – from queer cabarets to heart-stopping dramas, showcasing the best of South London. Tickets are available now. Link: https://lambeth
Read with a free account →08 September 25 · Opportunities
As a women’s organisation- this training is open to women- (this includes cis, intersex, and trans women). Rewriting Justice: facilitating playwriting in criminal justice settings Date: Thursday 18th September 2025, 10am-4.30pm Location: Clean Break’s Building, Kentish Town Learn
Read with a free account →08 September 25 · Opportunities
Player-Playwrights was founded as a writers’ and actors’ co-operative in 1948 and has been meeting on Monday evenings ever since to read and criticise new plays and scripts for theatre, radio and screen to help writers develop their work. Our Presidents are long- standing members
Read with a free account →05 September 25 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →05 September 25 · Opportunities
Applications are now open for Sprint Festival 2026! A massive, FOUR-WEEK, concentrated hit of ambitious new work. If you’ve got a current, compelling and cutting-edge performance project brewing, one that needs support or a showcase to be its best self, let us know. We’d love
Read with a free account →05 September 25 · Opportunities
503 Studio Community Creates: Open Day! 🎉 We’re opening the doors to our brand new creative home, the 503Studio in Nine Elms, and we want YOU to be part of it! Are you a local creative, teacher, facilitator, or community organiser who’d like to run a session? From yoga, to craft
Read with a free account →05 September 25 · Opportunities
WRITER CALL OUT for our 12th ‘To Whom It May Concern’ Please send your 5 minute monologue submission to us by 5.00pm 17th of September to info@saltcircleproductions.com Subject line ‘TWIMC 12-Writer- insert your name’ Please specify if you would like to perform the piece yourself
Read with a free account →05 September 25 · Opportunities
The Jerwood Fellowships at New Writing North are now open for entries until 15 October! Three awardees will receive £10,000 cash, mentoring, and a year-long bespoke package of support. This opportunity is open to early career published writers of fiction, narrative non-fiction an
Read with a free account →05 September 25 · Opportunities
As part of the Cultivate Workshops Series, the October Playwriting Masterclasses are now on sale 🎭 A series of four online masterclasses led by ESEA playwrights who explore the making of theatre inspired by historical events and figures. There will be a focus on ESEA history and
Read with a free account →05 September 25 · Opportunities
We are seeking a talented Writer to work with our young people’s focus group to develop their vision for a new online Choose Your Own Adventure experience, Second Nature, in partnership with The Broadway Cinema in Nottingham. KEY INFORMATION AT A GLANCE: Total fee: £1,500.00 Type
Read with a free account →05 September 25 · Opportunities
Calling all writers! Join for ‘Mix Up’: a free online space for UK-based playwrights. Hosted by ScriptEM and supported by Theatre503, and building on a successful pilot event, Mix Up is a playwright-only forum for writers based all across the UK, in which they set the agenda to t
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