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29 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: BBC Writersroom – TV Drama Writers’ Programme (pa
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Applications are now open for Oxford Playhouse’s professional Writers’ Attachment Programme, Playhouse Playmaker. Led by award-winning playwright Clare Bayley, the Playhouse Playmaker programme provides year-long mentorship and support to up to six new and emerging playwrights. F
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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
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The Hidden Beast Award is the chance to win script development and then production of a short film script in collaboration with Gentle Beasts. This is an award worth £4000 that will be invested to produce the winning script. It is an exciting opportunity for a UK writer wanting t
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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 →27 July 21 · Digital Resources / News
We’ve hit the summer holidays and lockdown down has lifted (in the UK, at least). So many of you will be taking a break, getting out or going away. Starting a new project or committing to serious amount of writing might be way down there on your list of priorities and whilst taki
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Fizzy Sherbet is currently accepting submissions of short plays by women writers for their fantastic podcast. We caught up with co-founder, Tamara von Werthern, to tell us how the project has evolved from a pre-pandemic live reading event in Hackney to an Arts Council funded podc
Read with a free account →23 July 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to join us? Become a member today for less than £4! Find out more about the ways you can support our work here! *Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! * Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities
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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.
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Dream Reality Radio Drama is a new artist development opportunity to support a group of up to 8 first time radio writers based in West Yorkshire to each create a short radio play. Working in partnership with Dream Reality Radio Drama, a project created by Leeds based writer and d
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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
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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
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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 →19 July 21 · Opportunities
Interested in LGBTQ+ drama but unsure where to start? want to check terminology, approaches and know where to submit your work? or are you interested in the history of LGBTQ+ theatre in order to inform your writing? This workshop will do both. Giving you an overview of previous L
Read with a free account →16 July 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to join us? Become a member today for less than £4! Find out more about the ways you can support our work here! *Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! * Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities
Read with a free account →15 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: Fizzy Sherbet accepting short play submissions by
Read with a free account →14 July 21 · Opportunities
Workshop: Playwriting Duration: 90 mins Location: ONLINE If you are a playwright and you would like to know how to get your play successfully commissioned by a theatre, then join our intimate workshop with playwright and dramaturg Stewart Pringle. In this 90 minute workshop you w
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About Concrete Youth Concrete Youth is a multi-award-winning, Hull-based company, dedicated to creating ground-breaking and exciting multi-sensory theatre for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). Partnered with Artsmark, our education department prov
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That Sketch Show is a brand new, topical, comedy night at The Edge, Manchester, that invites writers at all stages of their journey to submit material. The team at The Edge select the funniest jokes and sketches, which are then performed, by experienced professionals, in That Ske
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Mags Creative, a leading production and promotion podcast agency, is looking for a writer to develop and help create an exciting and ground-breaking narrative semi-fictional podcast. It will be an experiential audio experience with sustainability at its core. We want to ignite de
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Pen to Period Seed Commission (Leading Light Collective) Leading Light Collective have a great new opportunity for a £3,000 seed commission for a Writer, funded by Arts Council England. We are really excited to announce that we have been awarded Arts Council England funding to pr
Read with a free account →12 July 21 · Opportunities
Nottingham City Council would like to commission a Street Poem as part of the delivery of the National Lottery Heritage Fund supported Carrington Street Townscape Heritage regeneration scheme. This area runs along Carrington, Arkwright and Station Streets and includes the vicinit
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