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 with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Events; 4) Ongoing opportunities (No deadline).
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Our latest opportunities Pick of the Week: Full Circle Theatre launch new online radio playwriting festival for 2017
From the Archive of our Advice Column, Pursued By A Bear: “I’m struggling to finish my first play, should I just give up?”
Opportunities with deadlines:
Hollyoaks seeking Storyliner (experience required) – Deadline: 9 June 2017
Fright Shorts: BBC Northern Ireland seeking comedy shorts with a Halloween theme – Deadline: 12 June 2017
BBC Comedy Commissioning: The Felix Dexter Bursary (BAME writers only) – Deadline: 12 June 2017 at 5pm
Threadbare Theatre’s playwriting competition seeking a play set in a pub – Deadline: 16 June 2017
Talawa seeking applications for four-week TYPT Programme (Black British artists, age 18-25) – Deadline: 17 June 2017 at 6pm
Stitchin’ Fiction seeking submissions for scratch night – Deadline: 18 June 2017
Development Lab at Lyric Hammersmith – Deadline: 18 June 2017 at midnight
Ditchling Museum seeking writer in residence (paid) – Deadline: 19 June 2017
Lancaster Words Festival short film competition open for entries (under 25’s) – Deadline: 19 June 2017
Onstage/Offstage seeking 10-15 minute plays on ‘resisting’ for podcast (USA) – Deadline: 21 June 2017 11.59pm EST
Creative Future Literary Awards open for applications (poetry and flash fiction) – Deadline: 26 June 2017
Theatrefullstop accepting submissions for carnival podcast – Deadline: 27 June 2017
Ismena Collective now auditioning young playwrights for exciting project – Deadline: 30 June 2017
Green Curtain Theatre accepting submissions for London Irish Play Festival 2017 – Deadline: 30 June 2017
US New Works of Merit seeks scripts of social significance ($25 fee, $300 prize/professional reading) – Deadline: 30 June 2017
Full Circle Radio Theatre launch new online playwriting festival for 2017– Deadline: 30 June 2017
Pint-Sized seeking 10-15 minute pieces (£75 payment for performance) – Deadline: 1 July 2017
School For Poets seeking writers and educators (paid) – Deadline: 1 July 2017
Alleyway Theatre seeks musicals/plays in memory of Maxim Mazumda for New York premiere – Deadline: 1 July 2017
Dionysian magazine accepting shorts from female-identifying playwrights – Deadline 1 July 2017
Hampstead Theatre launches Inspire: The Next Playwright Programme (age 18-25, £200 bursary) – Deadline: 2 July 2017 at midnight
Verity Bargate Award 2017 – Deadline: 5 July 2017 at 12pm
G64 Festival running ‘Truth or Dare Festival’ competitions for playwrights age 4-18 – Deadline: 10 July 2017
Hijabi Monologues seeking true stories for performance at Bush Theatre (Muslim women writers) – Deadline: 17 July 2017 at 12 noon
Sterts Theatre One Act Play Writing Competition 2017 (entry £7, prize £40) – Deadline: 31 July 2017
Yale Drama Series Competition 2018 – Deadline: 15 August 2017
London Short Film Festival open for 2018 submissions (entry fee $6.50- $38) – Deadline: 21 April-21 August 2017
Miscellany Theatre Productions seeking love stories for My Irish Love Song project – Deadline: August (exact date TBC)
Soundwork call out for 15 minute monologues (Production and placement on website) – Deadline: 31 August 2017
Red Dragonfly new playwriting competition 2017 open for submissions – Deadline: 1 October 2017
Congleton Players One-Act Plays Festival open for submissions (£150 prize) – Deadline: 30 November 2017
Ashland New Plays Festival (Oregon, $15 entry, $1500 prize) – Deadline: 31 December (or when they receive 400 submissions)
Events and workshops:
Verity Bargate Award workshops – London workshops from 15 April-15 June 2017. Others around the country from Tue 18 April
Free writing workshop with Papatango winner Dawn King – Saturday 13 May 2017 and 27 May.
Bruntwood Prize 2017’s free online workshop programme – 20 and 24 May 2017
Bread and Roses Theatre Playwrights Circle meeting – 22 May from 7.30-9.30pm
‘Meet the Playwrights’ event with Writer’s Guild of Great Britain (£10/£5 concessions/£0 members)– 12 June 2017 8pm-10pm
Hijabi Monologues Drop-In Session at Bush Theatre – 13 June 2017 10am- 7pm
Playwrights Toolbox with Paul Kalburgi at Bread and Roses – Friday 16 June 2017(10-6pm)
The Writers Club open for applications for July 2017 sessions (£75 a term) – no specified deadline/ sessions begin in July 2017
The John Retallack Playwriting Course (Oxford, £2500) – Deadline: 31 July 2017
The Scenic Route presents ‘Creating Theatre, an Intensive Lab'(£195/£210 cost) – Starts 21 August 2017
Three day playwriting workshop with Simon Stephens in Andalucia 15 – 19 October 2017
Writers’ Mutual writing group -currently taking place Wednesdays 11am- 1pm
Ongoing submissions:
Ugly Duck offering cheap rehearsal space in Docklands – next few months for Edinburgh Fringe
Three opportunities with Alphabetti Theatre and rolling deadlines
Theatrefullstop in call out for bi-weekly podcast script submissions – Deadline: None posted.
Newsthump looking for spoof news writers – Deadline: ongoing
Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various
London Poet seeking film makers to collaborate with – Deadline: none
Edgemar Center for the Arts (Santa Monica) seeking new work for 2017 season – Deadline: none
Batty Mama seeking writers/ artists – Deadline: none posted
Rich Gifts Theatre seeking writers – Deadline: rolling
Paines Plough accepting ongoing submissions – Deadline: rolling
BBC Comedy Classroom – Comedy writing resources for young people – Deadline: various
Online Masterclass with Aaron Sorkin on Screenwriting ($90) – Deadline: none posted
JW3 seeking submissions of pieces about Jewish culture – Deadline: rolling
BFI Postroom open to submissions of films and scripts from emerging filmmakers – Deadline: rolling
Opportunities to hear your play with Player Playwrights – Deadline: rolling
Online Playwriting Course with Live Theatre (£95-£495) – Deadline: rolling
Playwrights Circle at the Bread & Roses – Deadline: ongoing (monthly event)
The Institute of Other seeking creative practitioners – Deadline: none posted
White Hart Trust Studios seeking international and foreign language theatre – Deadline: none posted
Pokfulam Rd Productions looking for playwrights and creatives – Deadline: none posted
55 Kings Contemporary Theatre Productions looking for writers – Deadline: none posted
Plane Paper Theatre call out for plays – Deadline: none posted
Theatrelab seeking scripts to perform at ‘WordPlay’ at Bath Spa University – Deadline: none posted
Londonville Lit offering reading slots – Deadline: none posted
Madam Renards Mini Fringe Festival Swindon open for applications from writers and performers – Deadline: none posted (festival takes place in 2016)
Orange Tea Theatre accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – Deadline: none posted
Everything Theatre accepting plays for podcast readings – Deadline: none posted
The Cockpit Theatre seeking work for scratch nights – Deadline: none posted but performances take place on the first Monday of the month.
Shred Productions open to submissions – Deadline: none (open submissions)
Poppy Seed – accepting submissions of 5 minute scripts for blog – Deadline: none posted
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keep doing the good work… 🙂