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12 August 21 · Opportunities
Following last year’s success, Scriptly Writing is back for a second year. Registration deadline 7 October, 2021 Scriptly Writing is a scriptwriting opportunity from The Literal Challenge – a small social enterprise that brings together a community of writers, wannabe writers and
Read with a free account →06 August 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →05 August 21 · Opportunities
World Productions (The Pembrokeshire Murders, Bodyguard, Line of Duty), BBC Writersroom and BBC Drama Commissioning are looking for the next generation of television writers who have bold and original stories to tell. To celebrate the launch of World’s new Cardiff office, World a
Read with a free account →05 August 21 · Opportunities
The 2022 Lancaster Playwriting Prize is now open to anyone from the North West of England who identifies as LGBTQAI+ aged 16 and up to and including the age of 30. The Lancaster Playwriting Prize, now in its third year, is run in partnership by the Department of English Literatur
Read with a free account →04 August 21 · Opportunities
Tamasha is looking for their next cohort of new and emerging talent in the field of playwriting for their Tamasha Playwrights programme. Tamasha Playwrights, founded by Artistic Director Fin Kennedy in 2014, is their flagship programme, a writer-led collective of emerging playwri
Read with a free account →30 July 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →29 July 21 · Opportunities
Owdyado Theatre are running a writing competition for mini stage plays (5-10 mins long) responding to the theme ‘Twisted Christmas’. There are 3 x £500 prizes available for winning entries. Scripts must be suitable for a maximum of 2 adult actors, (these are likely to be two fema
Read with a free account →29 July 21 · Opportunities
Applications to the BBC Writersroom 2022 TV Drama Writers’ Programme are open from Wednesday 28th July 2021 to 12 noon on Monday 13th September 2021 for credited and/or agented writers. Please read the full Terms and Conditions of Entry ELIGIBILITY Writers must have at least ONE
Read with a free account →23 July 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →22 July 21 · Uncategorized
The Painkiller Project is a playwriting project that runs every other month from Bitter Pill Theatre with a £200 prize for each winning play. The winning play will be produced and released on The Painkiller Podcast. They hope that the repetitive nature of the competition helps t
Read this article →20 July 21 · Opportunities
he Creative Talent Programme identifies young and emerging artists and companies who have the potential to become excellent creative practitioners and gives them the artistic, business and strategic support to become flourishing, challenging, exciting organisations of the future.
Read with a free account →20 July 21 · Opportunities
Frightfest is back and the search resumes for new writers in the horror genre through its New Blood initiative. Applications are open from Monday 12th July with potential participants asked to submit a 400 word proposal through the dedicated New Blood page on the FrightFest websi
Read with a free account →20 July 21 · Opportunities
Flawstate are looking for two duologues, each running 2-2.5 minutes, and if selected the writer will be required to attend a workshop at Wildcard Studio in London. Please submit both scenes as well some info about your writing journey. There will be a £120 fee for the writer chos
Read with a free account →20 July 21 · Opportunities
The Bridge House Theatre in Penge has relaunched and is currently open for submissions for their Bridge House Festival! This is a day-long programme of theatre, comedy and writing, where anything goes and experimentation is encouraged. With 12 one-hour slots available in both the
Read with a free account →20 July 21 · Opportunities
The BBC New Comedy Awards is a nationwide talent search to find the best new stand-up, sketch and digital comedians. Since they first launched in 1995 the prestigious awards have helped launch the careers of many of the UK’s best-loved comedians. This year, for the first time in
Read with a free account →16 July 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →12 July 21 · Opportunities
Writer-in-Residence Call for Applicants Wasafiri, the UK’s leading magazine of international contemporary writing, invites proposals from writers in all genres (including poets, playwrights, fiction writers, memoirists and essayists) in application for our 2021/2022 Writer-in-Res
Read with a free account →12 July 21 · Opportunities
PLEASE NOTE: the fee is a £3,000 flat fee – please see details below. Leading Light Collective Dear Mother Nature Summer 2021 R&D Pen to Period Seed Commission: Writer Call-Out Dear Mother Nature provides an insightful and unique opportunity to end the taboo against menstruation,
Read with a free account →12 July 21 · Opportunities
Submissions are now open for the 25th Alfred Fagon Award! The award is the leading award for Black British playwrights. The competition is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK, for the best original, new stage play in English. Entrants must c
Read with a free account →12 July 21 · Opportunities
FIZZY SHERBET accepts short play submissions of 10-20 minutes length (maximum of 15 pages of script) for 1-4 characters by women writers* worldwide for their podcast. This is a paid opportunity, each chosen writer will receive a fee, an audio production of the play & inclusion on
Read with a free account →12 July 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in July 2021. 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 the wh
Read with a free account →09 July 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →08 July 21 · 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: Applications for VAULT Festival 2022 now open! De
Read with a free account →08 July 21 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
In this six week course of 2 hour sessions with Emily Garside, we will combine writing advice and exercises with talking about our own work and sharing/reading extracts (only if you want to!). Designed for anyone whatever your experience of writing- whether you’ve never written a
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