Playwriting UK
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Top resource for playwrights in the UK. Jobs, opportunities, competitions, prizes & more. Maintained by @thisalitaylor.bsky.social Join FB group: https://bit.ly/3TpKWeG
Buxton Opera House launches a scriptwriting competition designed to celebrate the town and encourage local writers #BuxtonOperaHouse #playwritingcontest www.theatrereviewsnorth.com/post/buxton-...
Buxton scriptwriting competition
Buxton Opera House launches a scriptwriting competition designed to celebrate the town and encourage local writers
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We’re offering several full bursaries (details on our website), so please don’t let cost hold you back from applying. If you’re tempted, go for it. Swipe through for details and upcoming taster sessions, or hit the link: sohotheatre.com/project/writ...
Writers' Lab - Soho Theatre
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📣 Pencils out, pals - our Writer’s Lab applications are now OPEN! ✍️ Our 9-month programme is designed to take you from first idea to finished script, with the tools, structure, and support to get you there - oh, and help you feel good doing it. (psst, more below)
Pentabus is now accepting applications for the 2026 Jerwood Writer in Residence. £12K bursary, time to create, and a chance to join their renowned Young Writers programme. #ArtsFunding #Playwriting #Residency #Pentabus #News #NewWriting
Pentabus Writer Residency: £12k Bursary for Emerging Writers
Pentabus Theatre Company, one of the UK’s quiet powerhouses of new writing and rural excellence, has opened applications for its 2026 Jerwood Writer in Residence scheme. The opportunity, offering a £12,000 bursary for an emerging playwright to develop new work at Pentabus' home base in Ludlow, is as much a cultural proposition as it is a professional one: a chance not just to write, but to recalibrate what writing can be when it takes root outside a metropolis.
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Northumberland’s Phoenix Theatre has invited #playwrights from all backgrounds to submit previously unperformed #scripts for a new competition in which the winning play will be developed into a professional production. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity www.thephoenixtheatre.org.uk/participate-...
Playwriting Competition – The Phoenix Theatre, Blyth
The Phoenix Theatre is proud to announce a new playwriting competition for 2025-26. We are inviting playwrights from the UK to submit their scripts to our 2025 Playwriting Competition for...
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Apps now open for Pentabus’ 2026 Jerwood Writer in Residence! £12k bursary for early-career playwrights to write & develop in rural Shropshire. Deadline: 14 July, 10am. Info + apply: pentabus.co.uk/artists/jf-w... #Theatre #Playwright #Jerwood #Pentabus
We’re launching an open call for bold monologues from writers with lived experience of homelessness & poverty. Stories that challenge stereotypes and inspire change. Selected pieces will be published by Nick Hern Books, alongside new writing from Malorie Blackman, Chris Bush & more.
Calling all writers! We’ve been working on something bold. And we can finally talk about it tomorrow. Set your reminder. You’re going to want to be the first to see this. instagram.com/cardboardcitz
From Eastern Angles: Playwrights Club returns next Monday 12th May!! Perfect for playwrights at any stage of their careers, this monthly club offers the chance to receive support and feedback on a play in development. buff.ly/lnqcnrN
Playwrights Club - Eastern Angles Theatre Company
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Theatre503’s Summer Writers’ Programme: Let's Talk About Character with Olivier Award winning playwright and actress, Lolita Chakrabarti OBE 🎉 📅 Tuesday 27 May 2025 ⏰ 7pm – 9:30pm 📍 503Studio, Nine Elms 💸 £40 theatre503.com/whats-on/let...
One week left for North East playwrights to apply for this screenwriting opportunity!
New Writing North@newwritingnorth.bsky.social · last yr.Adapt your play for the screen on our new 6-month development programme 🎬 Two playwrights in Newcastle, North Tyneside or Northumberland will receive bursaries, workshops and more to help them transfer their skills from stage to screen. Apply by 23 Apr: newwritingnorth.com/event/adapt/
Have you a story to tell? Well aside from writing for us, which we welcome, this 👇 could be your chance. Sheringham Little Theatre & Suranne Jones are searching for budding playwrights to write a one-act play on a coastal life theme, lasting 60 minutes, & with no more than 6 characters. Details 👇
Star actor Suranne Jones backs search to find new Norfolk playwriting talent
The search is on to find Norfolk’s hidden playwriting talent in a new prize launched by a local theatre, and backed by its famous figurehead. Vigil, Dr Foster and Gentleman Jack actor star Suranne Jo...
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The Young Playwrights Award is open. * 13 to 18 years old * lives in or attends school in Greater London The winner’s play will be staged at the Royal Court Theatre in July and published by Nick Hern Books. Deadline: 2 May 2025 www.whatsonstage.com/news/theres-...
There’s still time to enter the Young Playwrights Award
You can submit your plays now!
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Do you have a story inside you ready to be released? Join our world-class #scriptwriting retreat in Scotland & learn from top industry professionals. IgniteTheSparkRetreats.com #screenwriting #playwriting #writersofbluesky #writingcommunity #writerslife #scriptsky #filmsky #TheatreSky #playwright
Loads of great writing opportunities over on the BBC Writers’ page ⌨️🎭 www.bbc.co.uk/writers/oppo...
Opportunities
Explore new writing opportunities and events from the BBC and across the industry.
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📣 Applications closing soon! Supporting exceptional female and non-binary playwrights, the winning play will receive £20,000 and the option for us to co-produce the play with @ekpshows.bsky.social and @painesplough.bsky.social Submissions close on Tue 22 April 👉 womensprizeforplaywriting.co.uk
Playwrights! Formatting your play is one of those weirdly time-consuming, and confusing things that we all deal with. How about a workshop to help out? @LDNPlaywrights has the answer! (well the answer is me, talking for an hour about it) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/formatting...
Formatting Your Play
Make your script shine by exploring formatting tips and techniques.
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Sign up for FREE ! All the new exercises focus on redrafting your play . Now over 3,000 subscribers buttondown.com/MarkRavenhill
One hundred and one exercises for playwrights
Exercises to get you starting writing a play, keep you writing a play, redrafting a play, starting the next play. For beginners through to old timers. A practical exercise in every newsletter.
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Playwrights still time to apply to the Glitch (managed by The Vault Creative Arts) for playwriting award. £2k and fully produced play based at Waterloo, London. For T&Cs see website. #playwritingcomps #playwriting #writingcomps www.theglitch.london/development?...
Artist Development — The Glitch
VAULT Creative Arts offer a wide range of opportunities for early-career artists at their home, The Glitch.
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🖋 Dexter Flanders (FOXES) brings you Playwriting for Dummies. 🔗 buff.ly/U9oq5rd 🖋 Theresa Ikoko (ROCKS) takes on Writing for TV. 🔗 buff.ly/fzGBHbl
Playwrights...forever confused about play formatting? I have a workshop for that... Thursday 3rd April (Online) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/formatting...
Formatting Your Play
Make your script shine by exploring formatting tips and techniques.
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DIVE IN HEAD FIRST You’ll be amazed how much you can accomplish when you jump in at our play/screenwriting retreat in October. Now accepting applications to our exclusive #playwriting / #screenwriting retreat Oct. 2025: ignitethesparkretreats.com. #writersofbluesky #writingcommunity #writerslife
Free workshop TOMORROW! Join our Artistic Director George Turvey at 1pm on 26th March to learn more about dramaturgy and script development. Log into #PapatangoStudio to find the event link on our Opportunities page. https://papatango.co.uk/studio/ #Theatre #Playwriting #TheatreCommunity
Episode 4 of our How To Write A Play series is now live. In this episode Associate Playwright & Young Writers Associate Beth Flintoff, will help you writing scenes. 📽️ Watch the full series to date here: royalcourttheatre.com/how-to-write...
How To Write A Play | Online Tutorials - Royal Court
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