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21 September 18 · Opportunities
Every writer wants to see their story come to life – with Enter Stage Write you get just that chance! Along with a £1000 prize for the overall winner, a select number of scripts will be produced and performed at the prestigious Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on 1 December 2018 Ho
Read with a free account →21 September 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 →20 September 18 · Opportunities
“Come play with us! We are seeking writers, directors and actors to take part in our 24 hour play challenge!” How it works: You will be put into teams and must produce a 10 minute play in 24 hours. Writers need to be available on the 18 and 19 November, directors and actors on th
Read with a free account →20 September 18 · Opportunities
The Bi’an Award is a new writing competition open to UK-based writers of Chinese heritage and supported by Arts Council England, Arvon and Stand magazine. Writers may submit poems of up to 20 lines, a short story of up to 1000 words, or a five-minute script, in English. Prizes wi
Read with a free account →20 September 18 · Opportunities
After their successful runs of Shorts @ The Canal and The Twilight Hour at Canal Cafe Theatre, Union Theatre and Etcetera Theatre, writers are invited to submit a play no longer than 15-minutes for “The Twilight Hour” season 2. The show will be based on The Twilight Zone TV serie
Read with a free account →17 September 18 · Opportunities
Are you aged 16-25? Are you interested in telling or writing stories? Do you write plays, theatre projects or films? Do you write lyrics, librettos or songs? Do you know anyone who does? Pentabus Theatre – the nation’s rural touring company – is on the lookout for 16-25 year old
Read with a free account →14 September 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 September 18 · Education / Opportunities
A twice-yearly writers’ residency based in Margate, Kent, designed to provide a thinking-friendly refuge for young writers. Recipients will have use of a historic two-bedroom seafront flat in Margate, as well as a £250 bursary towards expenses and £50 towards train travel. Each i
Read with a free account →12 September 18 · Opportunities
2019 is an iconic year in the relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom. Not only is it one hundred years since the beginning of the War of Independence in Ireland and seventy years since the Republic of Ireland left the British commonwealth. It is also the year when th
Read with a free account →12 September 18 · Opportunities
Cast Iron Theatre are looking for spooky/scary stories for ‘Bitter Sweets: Ugly Tales for Beautiful Souls‘, their popular spooky storytelling night as part of Brighton Horrorfest. This year the storytelling night is on Friday 26 October. Loosely inspired by the portmanteau Amicus
Read with a free account →10 September 18 · Opportunities
Down Stage Write are looking for 4 short plays for their upcoming event, ‘Down Stage Night’. The event will take place at Exeter Phoenix on Monday November 19th 2018 and is geared towards giving Devon and Cornwall based writers the chance to have their short-plays staged and perf
Read with a free account →10 September 18 · Opportunities
The next Take Back event will be: Take Back our Girls at Hope Mill on 3 October. They’d love to receive short 5 min submissions from people identifying as girls and young women, aged 25 and under. If accepted, your piece will be performed, script in hand, as part of a curated eve
Read with a free account →07 September 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 →05 September 18 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in September 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 t
Read with a free account →04 September 18 · Opportunities
The purpose of the course is to offer 12 writers new to television drama an insight into how the industry works and to provide a “dry-run” of what it can be like to write under a television drama commission, specifically for one hour series and serial drama, and to work with them
Read with a free account →31 August 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 →28 August 18 · Opportunities
The Space are seeking proposals from theatre companies and producers for their Spring 2019 season. What they offer: A welcoming and supportive environment Box office splits and no upfront hire costs Marketing and Production support Free rehearsal space, subject to availability A
Read with a free account →28 August 18 · Jobs / Opportunities
Writing East Midlands is the writer development agency for the region and supports, promotes and champions writing from the East Midlands. They are currently seeking resident writers for their project, the Elder Tree. Writer in Residence Brief: 12 positions available in Derbyshir
Read with a free account →28 August 18 · Opportunities
The Marlborough Theatre and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts are delighted to announce 2 new commissions for BAME LGBTQ+ artists to create a new 15 minute performance inspired by Audre Lorde Following on from 2017’s successful Thinking Queer: Bloomsbury Group, they are e
Read with a free account →28 August 18 · Opportunities
The Guinea Pig Lab literary board would like to invite all playwrights to enter their 2018 search for plays. The board is looking specifically for scripts written as one-woman plays and plans to select THREE for staged readings in spring 2019 in Wichita, Kansas. The competition,
Read with a free account →24 August 18 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →17 August 18 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →16 August 18 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world. It has provided the springboard for countless successful productions from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Fleabag. But where does the process of mounting a new play at the Fringe begin? In 2012, Fre
Read with a free account →15 August 18 · 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 open for the Old Vic 12 Description:
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