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10 September 18 · Opportunities
Chichester Festiva Theatre has a programme of weekly activities for adults. Whether you’re interested in performing or gaining new creative skills, they invite you to Get Into It! Get inspired by the range of plays on their stages and write your own! You will be guided through si
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Tamasha Playwrights is a writer-led collective of emerging playwrights from diverse cultural backgrounds. Writers meet for weekly sessions in Tamasha’s office from October to July. The content of each session is determined by its participants, and can include any aspect of playwr
Read with a free account →07 September 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 →05 September 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: Channel 4 Screenwriting Course accepting applicat
Read with a free account →05 September 18 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in September 2018. 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 t
Read with a free account →05 September 18 · Opportunities
As a partner organisation supporting The Literary Consultancy’s Free Reads scheme, Shape is looking for disabled writers wanting to improve their skills by utilising a free reading and feedback programme. This service is available for extracts or full manuscripts across fiction,
Read with a free account →05 September 18 · Opportunities
ReWrite is a script development event for playwrights from Glasgow-based In Motion Theatre Company. They will select four short plays or script extracts (up to 15 pages in length) and give you space and guidance to develop your script, to grow your ideas and push your playwriting
Read with a free account →04 September 18 · Opportunities
Into Film is an organisation that puts film at the heart of the educational and personal development of children and young people across the UK. They support teachers and educators to achieve a wide range of effective learning outcomes in their use of film. Their programme includ
Read with a free account →04 September 18 · 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 →04 September 18 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Ever wondered how to get noticed by the BBC? How to send your script and what happens when you do? How we assess your work? What grabs us and what puts us off? If you’re after some tips, this is a session not to miss. BBC Writersroom is always on the lookout for fresh, new, … BBC
Read with a free account →04 September 18 · Opportunities
Following their successful Intergenerational Night the theme of the next Actor Awareness New Writing night is Mental Health. The rules are as follows: The writing can be about anything but it has to link in with a story on Mental Health. They are looking for 4 pieces of new writi
Read with a free account →04 September 18 · Opportunities
Pleasance Scratch is now open for applications. A Pleasance Scratch is an evening of variety, ideas and fun- a chance for artists to present new work in its very earliest stages of development in a safe space. Six selected artists/companies will be selected. What you get: Mentori
Read with a free account →04 September 18 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Paperclip Theatre are running one of their acclaimed redrafting and structure workshops planned for September. If you’re stuck on a redraft or just fancy getting in a room with likeminded creatives this is for you! Whether you have a play you’ve finished that you’re looking to de
Read with a free account →04 September 18 · Opportunities
The Noosa Arts Theatre National One-Act Playwriting Competition attracts entries from playwrights across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, USA, and other countries. (Although based in Australia, applications are accepted from around the world). This playwriting competition offers a
Read with a free account →01 September 18 · Original Content
The LPW Online Book Club is just one of the things you can access if you become a member! Not a member yet? Well, if you want a jump start for your writing for the price of a cup of coffee, what are you waiting for? Sign up here today! (Want more reasons to join and a bit … LPW O
Read this article →31 August 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 →29 August 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 Questors Theatre seeking short plays on theme
Read with a free account →28 August 18 · Opportunities
The Space are seeking proposals from theatre companies and producers for their Spring 2019 season. What they offer: A welcoming and supportive environment Box office splits and no upfront hire costs Marketing and Production support Free rehearsal space, subject to availability A
Read with a free account →28 August 18 · Jobs / Opportunities
Writing East Midlands is the writer development agency for the region and supports, promotes and champions writing from the East Midlands. They are currently seeking resident writers for their project, the Elder Tree. Writer in Residence Brief: 12 positions available in Derbyshir
Read with a free account →28 August 18 · Opportunities
The Marlborough Theatre and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts are delighted to announce 2 new commissions for BAME LGBTQ+ artists to create a new 15 minute performance inspired by Audre Lorde Following on from 2017’s successful Thinking Queer: Bloomsbury Group, they are e
Read with a free account →28 August 18 · Opportunities
Full Disclosure Theatre are now accepting submissions for XPOSED, their new writing night of short plays revealing the naked and entertaining truths about queer life. Their most recent XPOSED evening sold out to audiences at Southwark Playhouse in February. XPOSED will feature a
Read with a free account →28 August 18 · Opportunities
The Guinea Pig Lab literary board would like to invite all playwrights to enter their 2018 search for plays. The board is looking specifically for scripts written as one-woman plays and plans to select THREE for staged readings in spring 2019 in Wichita, Kansas. The competition,
Read with a free account →24 August 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 →22 August 18 · Opportunities
The OSO Arts Centre, Barnes returns with their third Dispatches scratch night! “Following two sellout successes, fantastic reviews from audiences, critics and industry figures, and with multiple pieces going on to be presented at other venues, we’re excited to once again put out
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