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22 May 26 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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After the award-winning success of 2024’s winning play ‘Dweeb-A-Mania’, we’re so pleased to announce that the Polka Playwriting Award is back for 2026! The only playwriting award of its kind, the winning playwright receives: A WGGB rate commission and associated royalties A stagi
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CALL OUT: NEW WRITING FESTIVAL 2026 Collective Acting Studio invites playwrights to submit their work for our New Writing Festival, running from Monday 14th September – Friday 23rd October 2026. As part of our third-year BA Acting programme, this festival is a dedicated space for
Read with a free account →22 May 26 · Opportunities
Monday evening creative writing workshops at The Old Nursery (N15 4GZ), with award winning playwright A relaxed and fun evening of creative writing exercises and prompts, with award winning playwright Fran Bushe. These workshops are designed to build confidence, learn new techniq
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Write Your Draft – a 6 week creative writing course with Fran Bushe Monday 8th June 2026 – Monday 13th July 2026 7-9pm Write your draft A 6-week in person creative writing course for ideas that deserve to become something more. Write your Draft is a 6-week course designed to help
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Applications are now open for Stage Writing for Commission — a fully funded training programme for emerging playwrights, delivered by The Writers’ Block in partnership with The Minack Theatre. We would greatly appreciate your support in sharing this opportunity across your networ
Read with a free account →22 May 26 · Opportunities
From June 1st to June 30th, 2026, IATI Theater is accepting scripts for its 2027 Cimientos Season. Submissions are only accepted through the electronic form–see link below. Make sure to read guidelines before completing the submission form. For more information: iatitheater.org o
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ArtfulScribe is looking to appoint a writer facilitator to deliver weekly online Writing for Page and Stage sessions for adults during term time in partnership with Mayflower Southampton. Job Description ArtfulScribe is looking to appoint a writer facilitator to deliver weekly on
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ADAPT is a development programme for writers interested in adapting their work for the screen. Now in its third year, the ADAPT programme is specifically designed to support writers from any creative background (eg playwrights, novelists, poets, stand-ups) to adapt their own work
Read with a free account →15 May 26 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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We are delighted to be joining forces with @nwnnewwritingnorth ‘s Creative Associate Programme to offer a Live Theatre Writer In Residence opportunity. We are seeking one writer to take part in a six-month residency between Aug 2026 – Feb 2027 to create a new piece of artistic wo
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Do you want to write for TV and work with a production company? From Friday 15th May, New Writing North will have an opportunity for aspiring TV writers based in the North of England to submit to the Channel 4 Writing for Television Awards There will be four winners selected in e
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New Earth Writers’ UK Academy Plus is a British East and South East Asian (BESEA) writers’ programme dedicated to the development of a full length play. The programme will take place part-time over 5 months from October 2026-February 2027, and will support five early-mid career B
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ITV Studios Disabled Writers in Development is an opportunity for four Deaf, Disabled and/or Neurodivergent individual writers to develop a treatment and pilot script. This programme was developed in 2023 through ITV’s Diversity Development Fund aiming to expand and elevate the t
Read with a free account →08 May 26 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →07 May 26 · Opportunities
New comedy scripts. Top Fringe performers. One live audience. Monkey Barrel 2 11:00 AM 40 Minutes 7–30 August (Not 29) Back for Year 3 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Table Reads is where brand new comedy writing gets put in front of a live audience before commissioners get any
Read with a free account →01 May 26 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Make sure you never miss an opportunity! Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! Our weekly round-up has always been, and always will be totally free! However, we do rely on our paid subscribers to keep our organisation going. Please consider su
Read with a free account →01 May 26 · Opportunities
The Random Sketch Generator is a comedy podcast: each episode has a theme, every theme is randomly selected – giving them a month to write some wonderfully random, comedy sketches. They are now doing monthly open submissions for sketches. Deadline for the May submission window is
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Social Media Assistant: London Playwrights (Part-Time, Remote) We’re looking for a freelance Social Media Assistant to help us post consistently and promote our workshops, podcast, and opportunities for writers. This is a great role for an early-career creative, writer, or studen
Read with a free account →30 April 26 · Opportunities
SUBMISSIONS OPEN – WOMEN IN THE NOW I’m so excited to be bringing Women in the Now to the King’s Head Theatre, and submissions are now open. I’m looking for short pieces of new writing exploring what it means to be a woman in the world right now. This is a space for women’s voice
Read with a free account →30 April 26 · Opportunities
Apply now to our I Am SOUL Playwright Residency Program. Application window is April 16 – May 22, 2026. This historic program serves the best and brightest early-career Black writers from around the country, with a commitment to producing a public presentation of a newly commissi
Read with a free account →30 April 26 · Opportunities
Callout for pre-existing 15 minute scripts for Framework Festival 2026! These scripts can be excerpts of longer works or stand-alone short plays, and they should require a maximum of 3 performers. The selected scripts will receive support from Framework Theatre to produce them in
Read with a free account →29 April 26 · Opportunities
Tongue in Cheek Writing is looking for screenwriters based in Cardiff and South Wales to contribute 10-minute scripts to a scratch night specifically for writers of film and TV (and yes, radio too!). Selected scripts will be given a script-in-hand reading / performance at Porter’
Read with a free account →29 April 26 · Opportunities
Are you a deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent writer wanting to apply for our Open Call and Writers’ Access Group opportunities? Join our Script Essentials drop in sessions every Thursday at 1pm from 21st May – 25th June. Each session will cover a different topic including devel
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