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18 May 18 · Opportunities
The team that brought you Shorts @ The Canal are inviting all writers to submit a play no longer than 15-minute, for their next enterprise, “The Twilight Hour”. The show will be based on The Twilight Zone TV series to be performed at the award-winning Canal Cafe Theatre a renowne
Read with a free account →18 May 18 · Opportunities
They are looking for an experienced writer who has written theatre pieces with LGBTQIA themes to lead a 3 hour master class at Nottingham Playhouse as part of Write Pride, an LGBT writing festival taking place in Nottingham in July 2018. The master class should give participants
Read with a free account →18 May 18 · Opportunities / Pick of the Week
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 May 18 · Original Content
The LPW Online Book Club is our latest initiative, exclusive for our members. 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 more info? Read thi
Read this article →17 May 18 · Opportunities
The 2018 edition of the BBC Hausa short story writing competition is now open for entries from all women writing in Hausa, irrespective of their nationality or experience. Entries must be engaging works of fiction on any topic and should be between 1000 to 1500 words. How to appl
Read with a free account →17 May 18 · Opportunities
£10,000 could be yours! Do you have the winning comedy script? The Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize is the second largest national playwriting competition, and provides a great platform for new comedy writing across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Scripts must be original and unp
Read with a free account →17 May 18 · Opportunities
Entries are now open for the 22nd Alfred Fagon Award which is supported by The Peggy Ramsay Foundation. Last year’s award for Best New Play of the Year was won by Mufaro Makubika who won £6,000 for his play Shebeen. Shebeen is at Nottingham Playhouse 1 – 16 June and Theatre Royal
Read with a free account →17 May 18 · Opportunities
The Yale Drama Series is an annual international competition for emerging playwrights. The winner receives the David Charles Horn prize of $10,000, publication of their manuscript by Yale University Press and a professional staged reading at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater. A
Read with a free account →16 May 18 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
As part of the Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival‘s Free Fringe events, one of the guys at ScriptDawg has decided to try and condense what they do with the 72 Hour Challenge into a workshop and guideline to writing any of your future scripts… in the future. Which will be the present
Read with a free account →16 May 18 · Original Content
In this guest post, writer Naomi Westerman discusses problems with privilege within the theatre industry and how becoming a playwright isn’t a simple as picking up a pen. The first time I stepped foot in the Royal Court Theatre was five years ago. That was the same year I met Sim
Read this article →16 May 18 · Opportunities / Uncategorized
Just Some Theatre are looking for new play scripts. After successful Arts Council funded tours and London runs including Coward (2013) and The Doppel Gang (2015/17), they are looking for fresh projects with a view to produce in 2019. “We focus on new writing, and strive for high
Read with a free account →16 May 18 · Events
Tickets are available for this free event with a live performance by acclaimed South African playwright Ashwin Singh together with excerpts from some of his Durban Playhouse productions projected on screen. A follow up to Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice, (Aurora Metro Books 2013)
Read this article →16 May 18 · News / Opportunities
Theatre Uncut has launched the UK’s first major political playwriting prize in partnership with the Young Vic in London. Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre and the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff are also partners to the award, which aims to find the next generation of political playwrights
Read with a free account →16 May 18 · Opportunities
ARC is very excited to be working with The Royal Exchange Theatre, Susan Hodgkiss and The Yard, London on this year’s Hodgkiss Award 2018. The prize, which was last awarded in 2016, will support the realisation of a brand new piece of ambitious theatre made by an artist or compan
Read with a free account →16 May 18 · Opportunities
Over the course of Eastside’s weekend of Screenwriting, ten young writers aged 18-24 will explore the theme of an imbalanced world and creatively sculpt a concept and stories based on this theme. These workshops will be delivered by industry professionals, include a panel discuss
Read with a free account →16 May 18 · Uncategorized
Cuckoo Bang have just opened their latest submissions for 10-20 min pieces or extracts (scripted, devised or anything in between!) for their new writing night BITS which is continuing at The White Bear in Kennington on July 16th and September 10th. They are also launching at new
Read this article →16 May 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: Nouveau Riche seeking shorts for a The Miseducati
Read with a free account →16 May 18 · Uncategorized
irSpace Gallery is inviting applications from writers for a creative writing commission, to create a new piece of work, on the subject of The Brownfield There is no bar to the form of creative writing the submitted piece may take – the only stipulation is that it should be no mor
Read this article →16 May 18 · Opportunities
Angel on the Corner are looking for a new theatre project! Founded in 2014, the female led company are passionate about new writing and giving women a voice. Their first show, ‘Zero Down’ written by BBC award winning writer Sarah Hehir, premiered at Theatre 503 in August 2015 and
Read with a free account →15 May 18 · Opportunities
RAZE THE SPACE In association with the Literature & Fiction Department of the Los Angeles Public Library, is running ‘Exit Strategies’, a ten minute play festival. The festival will take place as follows: 2.00 – 3.30 pm Saturday, August 11, 2018, @ the Mark Taper Auditorium, Cen
Read with a free account →15 May 18 · Opportunities
Metamorph Theatre is looking for new artists to write or devise for its’ upcoming night ‘Pick and Mixed Plays’. They are looking for 6, 10-15 minute short plays or extracts that will be ready for showcase in July. Picked and Mixed Plays will be the performance evening by Metamorp
Read with a free account →15 May 18 · Jobs / Opportunities
Buxton Museum has been open to visitors for 125 years. In that time it has told the story of the Peak District to thousands of people. To celebrate, and as a result of a successful Arts Council application they are looking to commission four emerging, contemporary artists, writer
Read with a free account →14 May 18 · Opportunities
“Nouveau Riche is a diverse, exciting, Double-award winning creative movement, headed by a team of professional artists. Our objective is to discover, nurture and produce unique stories from all walks of life, with a keen scope on work that is both educational and entertaining. O
Read with a free account →14 May 18 · Education / Writing Workshops
Whether you have a play you’ve finished that you’re looking to develop further or the spark of an idea this workshop is for you. This workshop will look at: Interrogating themes and ideas Individual scene structure The relationship between character and structure Redrafting Form
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