30 November 23 · Opportunities
RL Pearson Books are accepting Flash Fiction submissions of 50-400 words. Writers 18+ Entry fee: £3 until 31st Dec 2023, £5 from 1st January 2024 1st Prize: £20, 2nd Prize: £15, 3rd Prize: £10 Find out more: https://rlpearsonbooks.wixsite.com/rl-pearson-books/ffc2024-1 rlpearsonb
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The fifteenth King’s Shorts Festival of Ten Minute Plays, will be hosted by King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada on June 21, 22 and 23, 2024. Entries for the Festival may be sent either by mail or online by January 15, 2024. By Mail: Send postmarked no later tha
Read with a free account →30 November 23 · Opportunities
Synecdoche Works is pleased to announce: The Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language for 2023-2024. Monetary award to playwright: $3000 for works with a running time of at least 40 minutes. Submissions must be in a heightened version of the English langua
Read with a free account →24 November 23 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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To launch their Good Trouble Labs digital storytelling programme for winter 2023, Vanitas Arts invite Writer and Actor Lolita Chakrabarti to discuss her award-winning work in digital storytelling for live and broadcast audiences: including Life of Pi & Invisible Cities. There wil
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Reach supports 5 emerging UK based disabled scriptwriters to develop solo shows through a 6 month programme of online workshops, and facilitated critical feedback groups. Job Description We are delighted to be launching our Reach development programme for script writers once more
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The Pocketfull Project is a series of digital theatrical performances of between 5 and 15 minutes long that take advantage of the online medium. They can be accessed at any time online, and provide a tiny escape from your reality into someone else’s. Following the success of our
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The UK International Audio Drama Festival are delighted to be inviting submissions to the 10th anniversary edition of the UK International Audio Drama Festival to be held form 25 – 29 March 2024 in Canterbury. They welcome submissions from all national broadcasters and independen
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Green Curtain Theatre are offering writers with an Irish heritage the opportunity to have their writing performed. This is as part of their latest theatre project to mark the centenary of the ending of the Civil War in Ireland in June 1923 and the hostilities that preceded it. Th
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Grass Routes is a new competition for new and unrepresented, working class writers. Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters of Matriarch Productions and Phil Temple of Birdie Pictures have teamed up to establish a new initiative to help writers from socio-economically disadvantaged bac
Read with a free account →17 November 23 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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· *NORTH EAST WRITERS* Haddaway & Write is returning in 2024! We are now accepting script submissions for our writers development programme with Gala Durham Supported by Arts Council England and Sunday for Sammy, 6 writers will receive script development support, bespoke mentorin
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Read with a free account →16 November 23 · Opportunities
Event Summary A six session online writing course for those beginning their journey in writing for the stage. Each week covers a distinct aspect of the craft and you will take away knowledge and techniques to get you powering through that first draft and beyond. Guest speakers wi
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We are looking for 12 performers / actors / writers with origins from around the world, now living around Birmingham, to collaborate with us on Ultraopticon, a 24 hour long performance on the top floor of the city’s iconic Rotunda building, between 6pm & 6pm on 19th – 20th Jan. F
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Shepherd’s Bush based screenwriter seeks an assistant 4 hours per week to help with admin mainly, with potential to contribute to written work. Job Description Scriptwriter seeks assistant to work in Shepherd’s Bush 4 hours, one day per week any workday except Thursdays. Most tas
Read with a free account →16 November 23 · Opportunities
Menagerie Theatre Company is now accepting applications for their Young Writers’ Workshop 2024. The YWW is a development programme for playwrights aged 18 – 30 who are based in the East & South-East. It supports writers to develop a new one-act play with individual coaching & men
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Calling all writers! Woodwose Productions is seeking yule/Christmas/midwinter-themed poems and monologues for a slot in its upcoming online storytelling night ‘Tales for the Season: Yule.’ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tales-for-the-season-yule-tickets-752799642997?aff=oddtdtcre
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STRUCTURE WORKSHOP with Barney Norris 2-4pm Genesis Building, Union Street, Plymouth (AND ONLINE) £20 This workshop will explore scene and play structures, and discovering rhythms to suit your story as you turn it into a play. Through practical exercises and study of existing tex
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November 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Scottish Society of Playwrights. To celebrate this significant milestone, we are delighted to launch the SSP@50 Fellowship Awards. Designed to support playwrights to create new projects that celebrate the importance of playwriting a
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Just Some Theatre have just launched our latest script call out and are looking for script submissions of full length plays suitable for Rural Touring in the UK. The script must be: Written by a UK resident Able to be performed by a cast size of 2 to 4 Not previously performed pr
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We from four years of age upwards are invited to be created to be creative and submit an entry to this year’s Cheshire Prize for Literature. The 2023 Prize has no theme. Entrants can write about anything that inspires them. There are four categories: Short stories Poetry Children
Read with a free account →16 November 23 · Opportunities
Calling all WRITERS! Quantum Egg Theatre Company are proud to announce our first project: ALGORITHM For this anthology night in March 2024, we are looking for scripts centred around our sci-fi inspired theme. Scripts should be no more than 30 minutes and should require no more th
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Bookmark magazine TYPE! has a new website, a new newsletter, and is looking for submissions of flash fiction, poetry, six-word stories, micro-plays, micro-screenplays, and illustrations. Launched in January 2021, TYPE! has featured incredible new writing across eight action-packe
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