24 November 21 · Inspiration / Resources
If you are a writer who wants to develop their craft and you live with illness, disability, or a chronic or life-limiting condition, this is the workshop for you. Join author Sandra Jensen for this two-hour workshop and explore how you can write well no matter what constraints li
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To celebrate the London Playwrights Festival 2021 which takes place at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre from December 6th-11th, we’re bringing you a selection of digital offerings to make sure the festival is accessible to everyone! We hope you’ll take part in these events and join us
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This is one for aspiring screenplay writers! This year, Watersprite International Student Film Festival are continuing their competition for student screenplays for the second year running, targeting scripts that have not yet entered production, and writers without agent represen
Read with a free account →24 November 21 · Opportunities / Writing Advice
Talawa’s free Script Reading Service provides feedback and support to emerging Black writers across the UK, so this is an opportunity to get your script read! How it works: Send them your script before the deadline (the script submission window closes on 15th December 2021) They’
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The next window for DRAMA and COMEDY DRAMA scripts will be open from Thursday 9th December 2021 at noon to Thursday 13th January 2022 at noon. The BBC run a Webinar to give you the full details about the Open Call opportunity – it is currently fully subscribed but if there any mo
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To celebrate the London Playwrights Festival 2021, we’re bringing you a series of online workshops! Session are FREE but if you’d like to support the festival, there is an option to ‘pay what you can’ for your ticket! LGBTQ+ Theatre Want to check terminology, approaches and know
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As thrilled as we are to be hosting a live festival in an actual theatre, we definitely don’t want to exclude those of you who can’t make it in person! We are so grateful for the support we have received throughout this difficult couple of years from our members, subscribers, and
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To celebrate the London Playwrights Festival 2021, we’re bringing you a series of online workshops! Session are FREE but if you’d like to support the festival, there is an option to ‘pay what you can’ for your ticket! Making Work Using Performance and Improvisation Techniques Som
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To celebrate the London Playwrights Festival 2021, we’re bringing you a series of online workshops! Session are FREE but if you’d like to support the festival, there is an option to ‘pay what you can’ for your ticket! Monologue Writing Join Sam Essame on this two-hour session on
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To celebrate the London Playwrights Festival 2021, we’re bringing you a series of online workshops! Session are FREE but if you’d like to support the festival, there is an option to ‘pay what you can’ for your ticket! Creating Historic Characters: Ever wanted to write about a his
Read with a free account →23 November 21 · Digital Resources / Inspiration
What happens when you submit your script to a Literary Department? What does a Literary Manager do? What’s the difference between a New Work Associate and a Dramaturg?
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When the all-female pirate crew aboard The Day of Reckoning is attacked by the British Navy, reality crumbles, and nothing is as it seems. The pirates are haunted by albatrosses, dead men and grieving whales. But how will they survive without a rudder? Why is the navy following t
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The RSC are teaming up with their 12 theatre partners across the country to get the nation writing. They are inviting children, young people and adults, including established, emerging and first-time writers to write/create the comedies, tragedies, and untold histories of our tim
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Liverpool’s Theatre in the Rough has announced an open callout for short works for a new digital arts festival exploring women’s experience of the Climate Crisis. 400 Parts Per Million is an ecological arts festival taking place in February 2022, coinciding with the UN Internatio
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Read with a free account →18 November 21 · Opportunities
ATS are looking for Scriptwriters on a freelance basis to create scripts for audio and multimedia tours of some of the world’s leading cultural and visitor attractions. Due to an increase in workload we are looking to expand our pool of writers across the UK & Ireland. We’re part
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Script submissions are open at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. The open call is an opportunity for them to connect with writers and find exciting ideas that could benefit from paid development and support in their Studio and Main House. WHO CAN APPLY: Submissions are open to write
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Underscore Studios is seeking the support of a talented and intuitive Social Media Marketer. You will work across our website and social media channels to develop original content and suggest creative ways to attract potential customers, increase web traffic, create more engageme
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The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, will be in its twentieth year in 2022. At the end of August, during each of the Festival’s eight days, eight short plays are performed at eight different venues all over Arundel – for exam
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The Cheshire Prize for Literature 2021 is now open with a theme of sustainability, open to all genres (short stories, children’s literature, scriptwriting and poetry), and for the first time ever they are encouraging children to enter as well. They are delighted to be in partners
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After the success of helping working class writers, directors and actors Tom Stocks brings the critically acclaimed company Actor Awareness, back to its home in the North. With various new writing nights having been performed at Spotlight Studios in the heart of the West End, Act
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Rather than accepting scripts year-round, BBC Writersroom has a distinct submission windows for scripts which are announced on the BBC Writersroom Opportunities page during the year. Each Open Call has a deadline, following which the scripts received are assessed intensively by o
Read with a free account →17 November 21 · News
All female theatre Company, Sixteen Sixty, have a brand new show coming up at the Bread & Roses Theatre from 22nd November. In Bad Taste is a horror-comedy involving gallons of fake blood and a distinct lack of fourth wall. Written with the current political climate biting at our
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THE LITERARY SERIES The Literary Series: Interviews with Literary Managers, Dramaturgs and New Work Associates – Episode 1: Stewart Pringle from the National Theatre November 9, 2021 What happens when you submit your script to a Literary… Read More
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