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18 August 14 · Original Content / Writing Advice
When I was single, writing was easy. I kept my own schedule and I wrote when I wanted. My room was my own: I had a desk in the corner, though I preferred writing in bed, and I would have writing binges deep into the small hours or across big swaths of time at the … Don’t Kill You
Read this article →17 August 14 · Funding and Bursaries
The Royal Society of Literature is accepting applications for Brookleaze Grants for Writers. The purpose of these grants is to buy time for novelists, short-story writers, poets or playwrights with pieces of work in hand. The Council of the RSL, who will be responsible for awardi
Read with a free account →15 August 14 · Education / Opportunities
If you’re 16-26 years old, the Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Lab gives you the chance to develop and refine your writing voice. Meeting once a month, on Tuesday evenings through the academic year, each Lab session gives you support, inspiration and guidance from our course leaders and
Read with a free account →15 August 14 · 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). Growing Stage seeking plays for young audiences for 4th Annual New Play-Reading Festival (New Jersey, USA) – Deadline: 15 August 2014 Lond
Read with a free account →15 August 14 · Opportunities
Words and Women is launching ‘About,’ an exciting new writing commission to create 4 texts for performance and the page. The Arts Council funded project will help develop work which explores the life of women and their relationship to place within the East of England. The commiss
Read with a free account →13 August 14 · Opportunities
IdeasTap have launched their latest Editor’s Brief which as usual, is open to all ages and disciplines. There will be first (£250), second (£100) and third (£50) prizes in each category (audio/video, writing and visual art/photographs. The Brief: It’s a warm summer’s morning. You
Read with a free account →08 August 14 · 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). Skylight Theatre seeking plays for Postscript series at the Drayton Arms – Deadline: 10 August 2014 The Peckham Pelicam seeking playwright
Read with a free account →07 August 14 · Opportunities
The TS Eliot Commissions are now in their second year and if you’ve got a story to tell they want to hear from you. In 2013 they commissioned plays that explored topics such as dystopian future governments, the big bang theory and monogamy in gay relationships. They want writers
Read with a free account →07 August 14 · Opportunities
Golden Lane Films (GLF) is looking for screenwriters to work on a unique film challenge. GLF is asking writers to submit short scene ideas (anything from 10 seconds to four minutes). The theme of your script(s) should be SCENES IN DOORWAYS. GLF will select a minimum of two writer
Read with a free account →06 August 14 · Opportunities
She Writes is an event featuring script-in-hand rehearsed readings of short plays and extracts from work in progress from female playwrights curated and run by 17Percent. The new 4-weekly incarnation of She Writes, a regular night of new short plays by women starts on 4 August as
Read with a free account →05 August 14 · Jobs / Opportunities
This exciting new project, supported by Plymouth University and Literature Works, is seeking a Writer in Residence with a track record in creative writing with experience of delivering talks/workshops to work with students as part of the English and Creative Writing department Fe
Read with a free account →01 August 14 · 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). Short Back and Sides seeking short plays – Deadline: 1 August 2014 UMass Amherst Play Lab (Massachusetts, USA) – Deadline: 1 August 2014 T
Read with a free account →01 August 14 · Opportunities
Etch is a brand new monthly theatre night held at one of South London’s most thriving new bars and arts venues, The Peckham Pelican. Their aim is to provide a platform for new writing from emerging artists in need of an outlet to do what they love most and to explore, develop, sh
Read with a free account →31 July 14 · Opportunities
The BBC Writersroom has announced announce that they will soon be opening for submissions for Scriptroom 8 (stage plays – comedy & drama) and this year’s Writer’s Prize, for which they are looking for original, surprising multi-character narrative drama scripts of 45-75 minutes i
Read with a free account →31 July 14 · Opportunities
After their first sell out show at the Tristan Bates theatre, Short Back and Sides is opening again for short play submissions. The selected plays will be performed at the Tristan Bates in October. This time the theme is: “How English are you?” What to submit: The only rules are
Read with a free account →30 July 14 · Opportunities
Mind The Gap is now accepting submissions for consideration in its ongoing BRITBITS series. What to submit: These short plays must be: 1-20 pages in length maximum written by NATIVE UK playwrights require simple set and technical elements accompanied by a brief playwright biograp
Read with a free account →30 July 14 · Opportunities
Now in its third year, Flourish is a new opera competition launched by Olivier award-winning OperaUpClose in association with Eclectic Opera. The competition aims to provide a platform for emerging and established composers and librettists, and to raise awareness of the wealth of
Read with a free account →30 July 14 · Opportunities
The Play Lab is a UMass Department of Theater mainstage production, running from March 23 – April 4, 2015. Two playwrights will be chosen for concurrent 10-day residencies during this period. These residencies are structured around a series of public staged readings directed and
Read with a free account →29 July 14 · Opportunities
The Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for a female playwright to be supported by three extraordinary institutions over the course of a year while she writes and develops a new play. What you get: In addition to a cash prize of $10,000, the playwright w
Read with a free account →29 July 14 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in August and late July 2014. As usual, we’ve already picked and posted the ones we’ve found most relevant (most of these are based in the US), but if you’d like to p
Read with a free account →28 July 14 · Opportunities
Z-arts are commissioning five writer-performers to create a monologue about family life. Z-arts is Manchester’s venue for children and families. The prompt: In their own words: We’re asking ourselves, what does a contemporary family look like now and how do we create theatre that
Read with a free account →28 July 14 · Jobs / Opportunities
Scriptwriting Bootcamp Panel Judges are needed on Friday 15th August from 11.30pm – 12.30pm. £50 fee (travel costs provided) and up to date CRB certificate needed. Your role is to listen and give constructive feedback to children age 13- 16 who have taken part in a week long scri
Read with a free account →28 July 14 · Opportunities
Z-arts, Manchester’s venue for children and families, is offering a Digital Writer Fellowship, subject to Z-arts being successful in their application to the BBC Performing Arts Fellowship. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/performingartsfund/posts/The-2014-BBC-Performing-Arts-Fellowshi
Read with a free account →27 July 14 · Original Content
Kimberley Andrews continues her quest to bring her own writing to the stage, sharing her top tips along the way. In the second post of the series, she looks at venues: how to find them, what to expect from them and when to run away screaming. In my case, finding a venue required
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