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17 September 25 · Opportunities
If you are looking to develop your craft but need advice, motivation, and practical ideas to help you grow then this new initiative from Kimberley Andrews is for you. With over ten years experience as a dramaturg, mentor, and playwriting tutor, Kimberley offers supportive, encour
Read with a free account →17 July 25 · Digital Resources
Articles and videos providing practical advice, writing exercises, tips, and more. https://www.playwrightsrealm.org/aspiring-playwrights
Read this article →06 June 25 · Guest Post / Inspiration
Screenwriting: The Craft and The Career by Philip Shelley is a new book which is packed with guidance on on everything needed to be a successful screenwriter. The book includes advice on technical elements such as generating compelling story ideas, creating engaging characters, c
Read this article →06 March 25 · News
London Playwrights’ co-founder, Kimberley Andrews, is now on Substack sharing thoughts and advice for playwrights. Kimberley has over a decade of experience working with new writers so she has plenty of tips and ideas to share. Please give her a follow: http://kimberleyandrews.su
Read this article →12 December 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
EAL CONTENTMENT is a 9-month artist exchange programme that will be the start of a lasting partnership between Manchester and Nanjing, both UNESCO Cities of Literature and UNESCO Cities of Lifelong Learning. Collaborations between six artists – poets, illustrators and playwrights
Read with a free account →12 December 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
The Union Theatre, in association with Off Main Stage, are looking for plays for their inaugural double-night of shorts. As part of the Union Theatre’s in-house productions, the shorts (drama and musicals) will be performed by professional actors in London and directed by industr
Read with a free account →12 December 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
The 2024/25 Prize has no theme. Entrants can write about anything that inspires them. There are five categories, short stories, poetry, children’s literature, scriptwriting and new for this year, Flash fiction. There are three age groups: primary, secondary and over 18’s. Entrant
Read with a free account →12 December 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
Experimental Theater Writing Workshop – Winter 2025 Seeking female or female-identifying experimental writers for the Experimental Theater Writing Workshop. This is a series of ten Zoom classes held Tuesday evenings from 01/07 – 03/11. Classes will consist of discussions of homew
Read with a free account →28 November 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
Take part in our Christmas Raffle for the chance to win a year of dramaturgy from London Playwrights.* Runner up prizes include Script Consulting Packages and an annual membership. GET YOUR TICKETS HERE. Cost: £2 per ticket *A year of Dramaturgy includes monthly meet-ups with a d
Read with a free account →27 November 24 · Digital Resources / Festival
New work is at the heart of the Everyman & Playhouse – and the Playwrights’ Programme is part of our mission to nurture, empower and champion the next generation of writers in Liverpool. It’s a free, ten-month programme led by our New Works Associate, and offers a mixture of faci
Read with a free account →03 October 24 · Opportunities
Want to develop your play but need some support and accountablilty? This group, led by Emily Garside, will focus on sharing your work and getting feedback from yuor peers. Rather than focusing on ‘teaching’ playwriting , you’ll pick up advice and learn practically, through workin
Read with a free account →09 August 24 · Digital Resources / Inspiration
Kimberley recently joined Paul Kalburgi on the fantastic Writer’s Toolkit Podcast to talk about London Playwrights and how important community is for emerging writers. They shared tips and ideas for how writers can foster their own communities to help support their development an
Read with a free account →14 February 24 · Opportunities
Want to develop your play but need some support and accountablilty? This group, led by Emily Garside, will focus on sharing your work and getting feedback from yuor peers. Rather than focusing on ‘teaching’ playwriting , you’ll pick up advice and learn practically, through workin
Read with a free account →10 July 23 · Opportunities
This podcast provides playwriting advice, writing tips, writing exercises, answers to your questions, and thoughts on the theatre world in 2023 from Olivier Award-winner Mike Bartlett, presented and hosted by the The Old Fire Station, Oxford. This podcast series runs alongside th
Read with a free account →30 May 23 · Opportunities
Join actor and best-selling author Rebecca Humphries for The Rules of Comedy at The Mono Box! Over 3 sessions, you’ll explore new forms of comic storytelling – looking at their specific sets of rules and picking up tips on how to apply them. Rebecca will impart advice, encourage
Read with a free account →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
Read this article →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’
Read with a free account →22 September 21 · News / Opportunities
If you’re on Twitter, you might have been following Mark Ravenhill’s 101 notes on playwriting which include some amazing advice, tips, and thoughts for playwrights. You can find all of these on Twitter by following Mark Ravenhill: @markravenhill2 Or, the Write A Play website has
Read with a free account →08 July 21 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
In this six week course of 2 hour sessions with Emily Garside, we will combine writing advice and exercises with talking about our own work and sharing/reading extracts (only if you want to!). Designed for anyone whatever your experience of writing- whether you’ve never written a
Read with a free account →01 July 21 · News
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) recently released a valuable new resource on Writing Competitions. Writing Competition or Cut Price Commission? provides guidelines for entering writing competitions so that writers can ensure they are applying for a genuinely beneficial
Read this article →24 August 20 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
In this six week course of 2 hour sessions with Emily Garside, we will combine writing advice and exercises with talking about our own work and sharing/reading extracts (only if you want to!). Designed for anyone whatever your experience of writing- whether you’ve never written a
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
In response to the coronavirus crisis, Papatango have come up with some fantastic resources. We’ve already posted about their Isolated But Open Commissions but they have also launched the following (in their words, taken from Playwriting UK Facebook Group): Papatango Library We’v
Read with a free account →10 July 19 · Writing Advice
In this post, playwright, dramaturg and LPW script reader, Nika Obydzinski discusses how Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Rules for Writing can be used as a toolbox for playwrights… This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr’s groundbreaking masterpiece Slaught
Read this article →21 January 19 · Business Advice / Education
Did you know that from 10am – 12pm on alternate Thursdays (next date: 31 January) you can chat to the Papatango team about any aspect of new writing or theatre live on their website? Find out more here Deadline: not applicable Source: @Playwriting_UK
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