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17 October 16 · Offers / Opportunities
Performers from all backgrounds and disciplines undertake a gruelling series of auditions, including a youth round for 11-16 year olds, before 20 of them are chosen to perform in front of an audience and to impress a panel of professionals who are in a position to progress their
Read with a free account →17 October 16 · Opportunities
Calling the Shots are looking for young people with brilliant ideas to produce a series of short films for Arts Council England and for potential inclusion in Random Acts, the arts series broadcast on Channel 4. If you’re aged 16-24 and currently live or study in the South West,
Read with a free account →17 October 16 · Opportunities
Note: this one isn’t a writing opportunity but we thought it might be of interest to some of our readers. BBC Drama, supported by Creative Skillset and Directors UK, is pleased to announce the second year of their directors’ training scheme. Over the next year, 9 drama directors
Read with a free account →17 October 16 · Opportunities
Awarded by the Royal Society of Literature, the RSL Brookleaze Grants support writers (novelists, playwrights, poets, short story writers) who need time away from their ‘normal’ lives – to take sabbaticals from their jobs, for example, or to travel abroad for research – to write.
Read with a free account →14 October 16 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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 with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Even
Read with a free account →12 October 16 · 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: Octagon Theatre Bolton Top Five Festival – accept
Read with a free account →10 October 16 · Opportunities
Calling all writers! Scene Gym are looking for 10 minute scene/ extract submissions for their next workshop. Please send scripts and biogs to scenegym@gmail.com by Friday 14th Oct Scene gym is a project that gives writers, directors and actors an opportunity to collaborate and a
Read with a free account →10 October 16 · Funding and Bursaries / Opportunities
This MMBF Trust -funded opportunity provides 10 groups or individuals with £250 to help kick-start their creative projects. In the past MMBF Trust has funded everything from dance and film projects to music videos and photography collectives. Whatever creative field you work in,
Read with a free account →10 October 16 · Opportunities
Open to entrants of any age and based anywhere in the world, Shakespeare Shorts is a new competition website for filmmakers. Entrants are invited to create short films which are inspired by, or reinterpret, Shakespeare’s works. Using all things Shakespeare as a starting point – t
Read with a free account →10 October 16 · Education / Funding and Bursaries
The Screen Arts Institute, in Assocation with the BFI, is recruiting filmmakers for their Professional Story Development & Marketing Scheme. The programme starts in February 2017 and runs through to April 2018. They will help you develop/further develop a feature or major TV proj
Read with a free account →10 October 16 · Jobs / Opportunities
MAT and Purbanat Theatre companies are looking for a playwright to work as co-writer on a new play, loosely based on The Interpreter of Desires by Ibn Arabi, and Dante’s Divine Comedy. The play will be a collaboration with the playwright David Calcutt. The two writers will partic
Read with a free account →10 October 16 · Education / Events
In a special talk on October 15th, the award-winning Jed Mercurio (Line of Duty, Cardiac Arrest, Bodies) will be discussing what’s influenced his work as a producer, director, novelist and one of the UK’s leading television writers. He’ll also share his take on the process of scr
Read with a free account →10 October 16 · Opportunities
The Octagon Theatre Bolton has now opened their latest submission window… This year’s submissions window is open until 5pm on Wednesday, 30 November. The five ‘most exciting and diverse’ scripts will be offered a slot in the Octagon’s Top Five Festival (Wed 1 – Thu 9 March) as pa
Read with a free account →10 October 16 · Opportunities
Penguin Random House UK is looking to find, mentor, and ultimately publish new writers from communities that are under-represented on the nation’s bookshelves. This includes writers from BAME and LGBTQ communities, and economically marginalised writers. 150 writers across the UK
Read with a free account →07 October 16 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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 with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Even
Read with a free account →06 October 16 · Uncategorized
Site-specific specialists SPECIFQ, along with new-writing company First Sight, will be hosting a free creative retreat at Wilton’s Music Hall. In their words: We are inviting a small group of writers and theatre makers who will spend the week exploring the lives and legacies of t
Read this article →05 October 16 · Uncategorized
Talawa have up to three script submission windows per year and the latest one has just opened. They welcome submissions from Black writers in the UK (people of African and Caribbean origin). The script submission window is open from Saturday 1 October to Monday 31 October (midnig
Read this article →05 October 16 · 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: BBC TV Drama Writers Programme 2017 Description:
Read with a free account →03 October 16 · Education / Opportunities
A fantastic opportunity to meet Channel 4 Screenwriting competition organiser Philip Shelley and to spend two days working with writers on the art of script editing television drama. This highly praised training session is of genuine use to anyone who wants to learn the art of sc
Read with a free account →03 October 16 · Opportunities
Founded in 2013 by Hong Kong born Jingan Young, Pokfulam Rd Productions 薄扶林道 is a non-profit London-based theatre company dedicated to pioneering new writing. Here’s an opportunity they’ve recently unveiled, as announced on their website: “We are pleased to announce we will be la
Read with a free account →03 October 16 · Jobs / Opportunities
ArtfulScribe and Mayflower Theatre are looking to appoint an experienced, versatile Writer/Facilitator to lead term-time weekly Young Writers’ sessions as part of a two-year project. Sessions will take place on Saturday mornings and each session will be split to accommodate write
Read with a free account →03 October 16 · Education / Opportunities
Playwriting is a vibrant avenue for creative writers to explore, and this course will introduce you to the critical and practical skills needed to produce works for the stage. You will discover how to structure narrative, create characters and craft dialogue, giving you the tools
Read with a free account →30 September 16 · Opportunities
Thumb Stopping Moments, the Totally Money Short Film competition, is looking for short films. There is a prize fund of £10K. Details: Each individual can enter up to five short films Films should be no longer than 60 seconds long and must be titled, “Avoiding the Unexpected” Entr
Read with a free account →30 September 16 · Opportunities
Matthew Frener (Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Free Rayne Artists) and Michaela Stern (Co-Founder of Collaborative Artists) are joining forces on a project that is currently looking for new plays that tackle topical issues and which also include Jewish themes. They are searc
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