From our earlier websites
Writing advice, interviews, projects and opportunities from our earlier websites, kept together for you to explore.
These are historical copies. Dates, prices and submission windows may no longer apply. Find current opportunities.
7,096 results · Page 165 of 296
21 January 19 · Opportunities
KDC’s writing competition, Full Stack, is open once more. Over the past few years they have given the opportunities for writers old and new to get a chance to have their work put on stage at the Lion and the Unicorn Theatre in London. The aim of this project is to get everyone wr
Read with a free account →18 January 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 →17 January 19 · Opportunities
Angry Bear Scratches for… Angry Bear Scratches for… is is a night of new writing on the 11 of March, in aid of Mind, the mental health charity. They are calling out for for short plays (10 mins max). The event will take place at a super-secret-studio-space-of-a-swanky-Off-West En
Read with a free account →17 January 19 · Opportunities
Playwriting in Movement workshop with Coleen MacPherson and Open Heart Surgery Theatre is a playwriting workshop for writers and actors and directors. Fee: £90 Contact: coleen.macpherson@gmail.com Dates: Saturday 9 February 12:00-16:00 and Sunday 10 February 10:00-14:00 Where: Ja
Read with a free account →16 January 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: Swings And Roundabouts: An inclusive night of new
Read with a free account →15 January 19 · Opportunities
Lady Eleanor Holles and Hampton High Schools are pleased to offer writers with an interest in developing female-driven work for large casts: A day of inspiration and discussion with established and emerging writers; Opportunities to have work-in-progress performed and workshopped
Read with a free account →15 January 19 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Continue to explore the key elements of dramatic writing, and benefit from supportive and detailed feedback on your own work in this playwriting course at City Lit with Dawn King. New students with some playwriting experience are welcome to join. Course Dates: 17 January 2019 – 2
Read with a free account →15 January 19 · Opportunities
Accelerator is a 3-year Imaginate project offering mentoring, producing support and performance opportunities for artists to create new theatre and/or dance works in progress for young audiences. Accelerator (new writing) is a new strand of Accelerator that will offer producing a
Read with a free account →15 January 19 · Events / News
10 years on from the death of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, this display takes you back to the beginning of his playwriting career. From his final play Celebration to the early prose pieces that influenced his dramatic writing, reproductions of his manuscripts and archival photog
Read this article →15 January 19 · Opportunities
Room 204 is Writing West Midlands’ writer development programme. Every year they select a small number of emerging writers from the West Midlands to work with them on a programme of creative writing career development. Room 204 has been running yearly since 2012 and to date, over
Read with a free account →14 January 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in January 2019. As usual, we’ve already picked and posted the ones we’ve found most relevant (most of these are based in the US), but you can click through to peruse the
Read with a free account →14 January 19 · Opportunities
Rapid Write Response (RWR) is a short play initiative open to writers of all levels of experience. Attend a full-run show in its first week and write a 10 minute play inspired by the show. Deadline for submissions is always the following Monday at 12 noon. The 503 team will selec
Read with a free account →14 January 19 · Opportunities
Scratching the Surface returns on the 22nd March at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre Pub. This is night of new writing will see a handful of brand new scenes and shorts brought to life in the form of one slick and memorable production. “The concept of Scratching the Surface is to p
Read with a free account →14 January 19 · Opportunities
Calling all writers: Coventry’s Warwick Arts Centre, one of the largest multi-artform venues in the UK, is looking for a number of local writers to perform open mic slots at SOLO Fest Monday 4 to Thursday 7 February 2019. SOLO Fest is a four day festival that showcases three capt
Read with a free account →14 January 19 · Opportunities
Shooting Fish Theatre are looking for an exceptional playwright who can create an inspirational script with themes of identity, spiritual development, world religions, and cultural views, particularly focusing on Christianity and Islam. The script will investigate some of the cul
Read with a free account →14 January 19 · Opportunities
Win a 3-week expenses-paid internship at a studio in Hollywood, California – a chance to work on some really amazing projects, get skills in the real world and add a global aspect to your CV. All they need to see is a production treatment, script or up-to-a 5 minute short film ex
Read with a free account →11 January 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 →10 January 19 · Opportunities
The OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, plays host to its fourth Dispatches scratch night, following on from three straight sellouts that garnered fantastic reviews from audiences, critics and industry figures (read one example at https://markaspen.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/disp-3/) . They h
Read with a free account →10 January 19 · Opportunities
Applications are now open for The Charlie Hartill Special Reserve. The Pleasance will provide an emerging theatre company with £10,000 financing, mentoring, support, PR, marketing, accommodation, travel, accessible performances and so much more to enable them to bring a fully pro
Read with a free account →09 January 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: Get Over It Productions seeking new writing for ‘
Read with a free account →08 January 19 · Opportunities
If you think being sent a playwriting challenge every day of February 2019 is for you, registration is now open for 28 plays later. It costs £23.45 to enter and the money raised goes in to a pot which is distributed to those still in the challenge at the end. You should read the
Read with a free account →08 January 19 · Opportunities
Access Platform is a new writing night platforming 5 D/deaf and disabled writers at Vault Festival 2019. “We know there is not enough D/deaf and disabled representation on our stage and screens. There are huge organisations that are addressing this, but there isn’t a lot at fring
Read with a free account →08 January 19 · Opportunities
They are looking for groundbreaking short science fiction plays, for writers coming from all walks of life, for daring and innovative creators, for new ideas, revolutionary dreams, crazy stories, for the bold, the daring, and the unique. Submission guidelines: Length: Up to 15 m
Read with a free account →08 January 19 · Opportunities
As it is 200 years since the first publication of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Make it Write’s next writing competition theme is…. MONSTERS You can be as literal or hypothetical as you wish so let your creativity flow! This is your chance to see your play directed and performed
Read with a free account →