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17 December 18 · Opportunities
Amateur playwrights world-wide are invited to submit unpublished one-act plays in English for the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing. Three winning scripts will be selected for fully staged performances during the Windsor Fringe Festival in October 2019. One of the three
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As part of celebrations to mark its centenary in 2019, the Forestry Commission has launched a new writing competition to diversify nature writing. What do forests mean to you? If you’re a writer with a passion for nature, they want to hear from you. From Wordsworth to J.K Rowling
Read with a free account →14 December 18 · Original Content
Want to find out more about why you should take part in #WrAP2019? Here, our Head of Writer Development and #WrAP2019 producer Kimberley Andrews, gives you the lowdown and her top 5 reasons for why it’s worth giving it a go! 1. It’s the perfect New Year’s Resolution With Christma
Read this article →14 December 18 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support LPB? Become a member! 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
Read with a free account →12 December 18 · Opportunities
Opening in 2009, the Papatango New Writing Prize was the first – and remains the only – annual playwriting award in the UK to guarantee an emerging playwright a full production on the professional stage. It provides a royalty of 10% of the gross box office and publication by Nick
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The 2019 fellowship is now open for applications. Interviews will be held in the second week of February 2019. About the Fellowship IASH and the Traverse Theatre will commission a play on or inspired by any aspect of the Institute’s current interests. The stipend will be £10,000
Read with a free account →12 December 18 · Opportunities
Beacon Productions – set up by current Loughborough student Corinne Bills and alumnus Ben Welham – are looking for talented playwrights who are keen to see their plays debuted at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe. The company, which performed at the event earlier this year, focuses on ne
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One regional writer from the South East will be chosen to receive tailored career support, including a minimum of 2 x mentoring/feedback sessions, 1 x script workshop and 1 x rehearsed reading, culminating in the development of a new full-length play over a 12-month period. Broke
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Writers based in the North of England are invited to submit their work-in-progress to the Northern Writers’ Awards 2019. The Northern Writers’ Awards are for work-in-progress and exist to recognise talent and support new work towards publication or broadcast. The awards are the l
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The next Leeds Playhouse script window will be open from 1st to 31st January 2019. They want to hear from writers who are from or who are living in Yorkshire or who feel a particular connection to Leeds Playhouse and their programme. They use the script window to meet playwrights
Read with a free account →10 December 18 · Events / Writing Workshops
On a quarterly basis, we organise a get-together with our members. This a friendly, informal gathering that offers a chance to chat with like-minded writers and meet the LPW Team! Our next meetup will take place on Saturday 2 March 2019 at the Old Diorama Studios, and we thought
Read this article →07 December 18 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support LPB? Become a member! 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
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Free Spirit Theatre are looking for an original play for their next production in May 2019, to be performed at the Dovehouse Theatre, Solihull. Submission guidelines: 1. The play must be your own original work and must not have been previously performed in the UK. 2. The play mus
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UGC Writers Campus by Series Mania is a week-long TV series writing workshop, conducted in English and open to 20 screenwriters. The 2019 edition will be held in Lille in northern France from March 20-27, 2019 under the supervision of Lorraine Sullivan, in collaboration with Pari
Read with a free account →03 December 18 · Opportunities
Matchstick Theatre are a small independent theatre company, set up in late 2015 and based in South East London. They have produced new plays and adaptations in tunnel arches and festivals around London. They are now located in a new arts and theatre space, the Matchstick Piehouse
Read with a free account →30 November 18 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support LPB? Become a member! 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
Read with a free account →29 November 18 · Gift Guide / Original Content
It’s that time of year again: for the Christmas gift round up! Discover our selection of the best presents for writers… ‘Tis the season for mulled wine, Christmas films, carols, and trying to be more organised than last year and not leaving all of your shopping to Christmas Eve (
Read this article →29 November 18 · Guest Post / Original Content
Reflecting on her experience of writing ‘Dandelion‘, which is set in 1988 and centres around the impact of the homophobic law Section 28, guest writer Jennifer Richards discusses writing a play for a modern audience that isn’t about the modern at all. Writing a play that’s not se
Read this article →28 November 18 · Opportunities
The Script Room has a call out for original and unperformed scripts for its next event which takes place at the Workspace Studio Richmond upon Thames in March 2019. Work submitted can be on any theme and in any style. Plays can be of any running time, though we will discuss perfo
Read with a free account →28 November 18 · Opportunities
The competition is seeking plays from young writers and their are cash prizes available for the winners. Please read the rules and guidelines here before applying. Deadline: 15 December 2018 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
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Creative Futures are looking for 5 young people to take part in a paid 6 month opportunity to set yourself up as a freelancer, make and show your own work and get mentoring. How to apply: find out more and apply here Deadline: 30 November 2018 at 5pm Source: Arts Jobs
Read with a free account →28 November 18 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in December 2018. 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 th
Read with a free account →28 November 18 · News / Opportunities
BBC Cymru Wales and National Theatre Wales, along with BBC Writersroom, have announced a major new partnership to develop and support new Welsh writing talent. The annual Wales Writer in Residence award is a prestigious new scheme – worth over £12,000 to the winner – to support n
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From 2019 on wards Pleasance Islington will appoint up to three annual London Associate Artists or Companies to join the Pleasance community. Applications are open to everyone! All theu ask is that you are based within the capital and can clearly demonstrate how being a London As
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