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28 November 18 · 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: Shorts @ The Canal – Love Shots call out Descript
Read with a free account →27 November 18 · Original Content
In the summer, we ran an online course for our members on How to Write a Monologue. We then invited participants to submit their monologues to us and promised to publish our favourite ones on the blog! We received some fantastic entries which encapsulated some vibrant characters
Read this article →23 November 18 · 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 →21 November 18 · 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: Cuckoo Bang accepting submissions for BITS new wr
Read with a free account →20 November 18 · Opportunities
Flux Theatre are holding a writers’ clinic where writers can bring in a 5 page script and hear it read by some lovely actors to a group of supportive people. How it works: tickets are FREE when you buy a #CHUTNEYplay ticket to any performance. Simply email your ticket confirmatio
Read with a free account →20 November 18 · Opportunities
Big Brum TIE is seeking to commission a new play. They hope to give an opportunity to a talented writer at the start of their career, to write a play that Big Brum will tour to educational settings within the West Midlands and beyond. The successful candidate will be mentored thr
Read with a free account →20 November 18 · Opportunities
After Shorts @ The Canal – 1&2, Shorts @ The Union and The Twilight Hour season 1&2, Shorts @ The Canal is inviting all writers to submit a play no longer than 15-minute, for their next show: “Love Shots”. The show will have a love theme and will be performed at the award-winning
Read with a free account →20 November 18 · Original Content
**Announcement!** #WrAP is back for 2019! Last January, more than 150 of you kick-started 2018 by taking part in WrAP (Write a Play) – where you took on the challenge of writing a play in a month. Some of you managed to get a whole first draft finished, others wrote a few scenes,
Read this article →19 November 18 · Opportunities
For the next submission window from Persistent and Nasty they are looking for scripts that explore / respond to the phrase hope for the future. Writers are invited to interpret this however they wish. They want to hear from women, trans women and non-binary voices. Although they
Read with a free account →19 November 18 · Opportunities
Writers are wanted for six ‘Seasonal Shorts;’ an evening of festive new writing at the Exchange Bar, Leicester on December 10th at 7.30pm with (a non-profit event for Hope Against Cancer). Script Criteria: No more than 3 actors required (monologues / duologues / 3-handers are all
Read with a free account →19 November 18 · Opportunities
Are you a budding playwright based in Hampshire? Papatango are partnering with The Spring Arts Centre in Havant to offer a very special playwriting course from January – May 2019 – and it’s completely free! 18 writers will be selected take part in workshops on all the key element
Read with a free account →19 November 18 · Opportunities
Young Pleasance is dedicated to offering dynamic, excellent and professional theatre opportunities for young people through workshops and large-scale productions delivered by their ambitious creative team. Applications for the Young Pleasance Edinburgh Residential are now open. H
Read with a free account →19 November 18 · Original Content
In the summer, we ran an online course for our members on How to Write a Monologue. We then invited participants to submit their monologues to us and promised to publish our favourite ones on the blog! We received some fantastic entries which encapsulated some vibrant characters
Read this article →16 November 18 · 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 →15 November 18 · Opportunities
The RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2019 is now open for submissions for the inaugural year. The Prize is open to writers aged 50 or over at the time of publication, for their first published work of fiction or non-fiction. The writer must be a citizen of, or resident in, the United
Read with a free account →15 November 18 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
This weekend masterclass will explore ways to bend the established rules of scriptwriting. It will consider bedrocks of dramatic writing such as plot, character and setting, and the way conflict and change are typically enacted by – or against – these. During the weekend they’ll
Read with a free account →15 November 18 · Opportunities
Funded and delivered by the British Council, Farnham Maltings, and the High Commission of Canada in the UK, New Conversations is designed to encourage and support the development of creative and collaborative partnerships between artists and arts organizations in the performing a
Read with a free account →15 November 18 · Opportunities
BITS is a new writing night showcasing the best emerging and established writers, directors, actors and theatre-makers both in the UK and internationally. Held every other month at The White Bear in Kennington and other venues across London, (most recently Streatham Space Project
Read with a free account →14 November 18 · 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 Director’s Club seeking shorts on theme of ‘S
Read with a free account →13 November 18 · Opportunities
South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA) and Applause Rural Touring (ART) are pleased to announce a new partnership to commission a spoken word inspired show that explores and records residents relationship, thoughts and feelings of the South Downs National Park and will tour
Read with a free account →13 November 18 · Opportunities
The thirteenth King’s Shorts Festival of Ten Minute Plays,will be hosted by King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada on June 14, 15 and 16, 2019. Entries for the Festival must be sent to the address below, with a non-refundable $15 entry fee per script, and be postm
Read with a free account →13 November 18 · Opportunities
Write the Girl is a day of discussion about theatre-making for and with young women run by Lady Eleanor Holles and Hampton High Schools and will include the launch of a new commissioning process. Attendees will then be eligible to apply for a fully funded commission for Lady Elea
Read with a free account →12 November 18 · Original Content
In the summer, we ran an online course for our members on How to Write a Monologue. We then invited participants to submit their monologues to us and promised to publish our favourite ones on the blog! We received some fantastic entries which encapsulated some vibrant characters
Read this article →09 November 18 · 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
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