Opportunities

The RSL’s Literature Matters Awards aim to reward and enable literary excellence and innovation.  Each year, after an open call for proposals, the Awards will be given to individual writers or other literary creators, recognising their past achievements and providing them with financial support to undertake a proposed new piece of writing or literary project.  Launched as …

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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 the United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the …

Green Curtain Theatre seeking one act plays on the theme of ‘breaking away’ Read More »

Cast Iron Theatre‘s writing window is now open for their eleventh short play night in November. They are looking for short plays (between 10 – 15mins) with a soft theme of ‘Eleven’ – interpret as you wish. Preference will be given to playwrights from East Sussex although they will not exclude writers who reside in other locations. …

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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 stories of the seventies, the spooky stories are read by a selection of Cast Iron actors in …

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Newsjack the Radio 4 Extra topical news sketch show, which anyone can write for, is again looking for writers to submit sketches and one-liners for its 19th series. Irreverent and satirical, Newsjack is the scrapbook sketch show written entirely by the Great British public, and then bought to life by a revolving cast of sketch performers. Trying to make …

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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 performed by a team of local Directors and Actors. All …

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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 evening. They would …

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Do you have a passion for theatre and a love of new plays? This year for the first time ever the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, with the support of theatre critic Lyn Gardner, is looking for a passionate audience member to join them in the search for original and innovate new voices in drama. The …

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