Open Call
Our annual open submission opportunity for all writers aged 18 and over and resident in the UK or Republic of Ireland.
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How and When to Send us a Script
Our Open Call is currently closed. The latest submission window was from noon on 5th November 2024 to noon on 3rd December 2024. Submissions will be open again in late 2025.
More Opportunities from 大象传媒 Writers & across the 大象传媒
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大象传媒 Culture, Music and Arts North in collaboration with 大象传媒 Radio 4 | The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award 2025
Deadline: 12 Noon on Monday 21st April 2025
The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award is an opportunity for writers based in the North of England who are new to writing for audio. It offers a 拢5,000 bursary to the winner as well as the chance of a Radio 4 Drama commission. -
大象传媒 World Service | The International Audio Drama Competition 2026
The global competition, hosted by 大象传媒 World Service and the British Council, offers the unique opportunity for writers from outside the UK to use the medium of audio drama to tell stories for an international audience. -
大象传媒 Writers Digital Sessions for Screenwriting Students
Are you studying screenwriting at a BA or Postgraduate level? Join one of our free online webinars to find out more about our work and how you can get involved. Register your interest now. -
大象传媒 Academy | Production Unlocked
FREE broadcasting and production skills workshops in London -
The Comedy Unit | Noising Up!
Rolling Deadlines
Noising Up is set to return to 大象传媒 Radio Scotland and 大象传媒 Sounds and needs your topical, satirical and observational sketches! -
大象传媒 Upload
Upload is open to submissions all year round, with content showcased every day on 大象传媒 radio stations and social and online platforms from writers and content creators across the UK.
Non-大象传媒 Opportunities
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Aberystwyth University Scriptwriting Society
Ongoing Meet Ups
The society is holding weekly writing workshops for keen scriptwriters who are based in the Aberystwyth area in Ceredigion, Wales. Non-students are welcome. -
The Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2025
Deadline: 23:59 on Tuesday 1st April 2025
This year, The Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize will be awarded for the best playwriting response on the theme of Fear. -
Anthroplay Theatre | Anthrotalks
Multiple Deadlines and themes throughout the year
Anthroplay is looking for poetry, spoken word, monologues, comedy, drag, songs - the lot - for their upcoming Anthrotalks events in 2025. -
Barnstormers | Call for New Short Plays
Deadline: Midnight on Wednesday 30th April 2025
Barnstormers is seeking short plays (10-20 minutes) from writers based in or connected to West Somerset, Somerset or Exmoor. -
Barons Court Theatre | The Sunday Fix
Deadline:15th of the month
The Sunday Fix is a scratch night offering feedback on 10 minute extracts of new plays from writers. -
Box of Tricks | Open Door
Rolling Submissions
Box of Tricks has a year-round, open door policy to receiving new plays from playwrights in the North of England. -
Chesil Theatre | TakeTen New Writing Competition 2025/6
Deadline: Sunday 1st June 2025
Aspiring and seasoned writers are invited to participate in the ninth biennial playwriting event. -
Devon and Cornwall Screenwriting Group
Event: The group meets online every month
The group meets to provide reciprocal feedback on completed TV and feature scripts written by group members. -
Divided Culture Co. | DCC Playwriting Prize 2025
Deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
Open to playwrights who have an unperformed, full-length play and were born and/or live in the North West, the prize awards the winning playwright 拢1000, as well as production of their play for its first public performances. -
Eastern Angles Theatre Company | New Angles Writers Club
Rolling deadline. Booking required prior to each session
Eastern Angles is looking for East Anglian playwrights to join their New Angles Writers Club, a local writing community to receive support and feedback on a play in development. -
Finborough Theatre | Open Script Submissions
Rolling submissions
Finborough Theatre welcomes unsolicited scripts at any time of the year. -
Flawstate | Project: Page One
Deadline: Friday 14th March 2025
Flawstate are offering a series of rehearsed readings in London this year for playwrights looking to launch their debut show. -
Flawstate | Flawed Up North
Deadline: Friday 14th March 2025
Flawstate's Manchester branch is seeking scripts from new writers looking for support to complete their first full-length play. -
Flawstate | Glitch Scratch Night
Deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
Flawstate are looking for pieces in development to be showcased at their scratch night event. -
Greenlight Screenwriting Lab 2025
Deadline: 5pm on Monday 3rd March 2025
Greenlight Screenwriting provides support and up-skilling opportunities to a new generation of emerging script writers and script editors who are resident in Ireland or of Irish nationality. -
Liverpool鈥檚 Royal Court | Stage Write Nights
Ongoing new writing nights
Stage Write at Liverpool's Royal Court is a regular, new writing night that runs year round and they are looking for scripts. Excerpts of several pieces are chosen to be performed by professional actors, working with a professional director. Scripts need to be full length (minimum 60 mins), written for theatre and your own work. -
London Comedy Writers
Ongoing Meet Ups
An opportunity for London based comedy writers who want to share their work and receive constructive feedback. -
London Screenwriters' Free Online Festival 2025
Dates: Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th March
LSF are hosting a 2 day free online Festival and writers can attend completely free. -
Manchester Screenwriting Meet Up
Ongoing Meet Ups
An opportunity for Manchester based screenwriters who want to develop their craft and learn more about screenwriting. -
Messy Writers | Monthly London Meet-Ups
Monthly Meet Ups
An opportunity for London based screenwriters who want to share opportunities and meet potential collaborators. -
Oxford/42 New Writing Prize
Deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
42 have launched a multi-disciplinary storytelling competition in conjunction with The Faculty of English at the University of Oxford. -
Papatango | Playwrights鈥� Studio
Papatango have announced a brand-new, completely free offer for playwrights which includes digital workshops, open-access funding, one-to-one advice, in-person events, and representation on a searchable industry database. -
Playwrights' Studio Scotland | National Script Reading Service
Rolling Submissions
Playwrights' Studio Scotland's free script reading service provides an opportunity for Scotland's writers to receive valuable script feedback from theatre professionals. -
The Rep | Feedback Fridays
Various Submission windows up to March 2025
Feedback Fridays gives scriptwriters from the West Midlands the opportunity to receive valuable support and feedback on their work from The Rep鈥檚 in-house directors. -
Royal Court Theatre | Script Submissions
Rolling Submissions
The Royal Court is dedicated to finding the most exciting new plays, underpinned by the history of their open submissions policy. -
Script Club Cardiff
Monthly meet-ups
Script Club Cardiff holds monthly informal meetups for local scriptwriters. -
Script Club Cardiff | Scratch Club
Deadline: Saturday 22nd March 2025
Script Club Cardiff is excited to launch Scratch Club - a brand-new series of scratch nights giving an opportunity to anyone who would like to be a playwright to see their work performed live in front of an audience. -
The Script鈥檚 The Thing 2
Deadline: Friday 21st March 2025
The Script鈥檚 The Thing 2 - a new writing festival - is looking for submissions for theatre, TV, film, radio. -
Scriptwriting East Midlands
Regular meet-ups on the third Tuesday of every month (booking required)
A brand-new support network for professional scriptwriters, based in the East Midlands. -
Sl谩inte! Theatre | Monthly Scratch Nights
Rolling submissions
Sl脿inte! Theatre, are looking for Irish and Scottish heritage playwrights for their 'Heads Or Tales?' monthly Scratch Nights held in London. -
TYPE! - Micro plays
Rolling submissions
TYPE! is a new bookmark magazine looking for short/micro plays or screenplays (2-5 minutes in length) to feature in the next edition. -
Womxn Who Make Funny Films
Ongoing Meet Ups
Womxn Who Make Funny Films organise networking events, writing groups and showcases for women identifying comedy filmmakers. -
Writing On The Wall | Write To Work 2024
Ongoing Events
Writing on the wall are currently offering FREE one-day creative writing courses. WOW's courses are for all levels of writing ability, so no experience is necessary. The courses offer a chance to work with professional writers, and everyone who attends will be able to submit their work for publication in a printed anthology available to buy online and in bookshops across Liverpool..
Do you have an Opportunity that you would like us to include on this page?
Please visit our Opportunities Listing Requests page for full details of the information we require and how to get in touch.
Our remit is scriptwriting so in general we can't promote opportunities or events from organisations outside the 大象传媒 which are for novel writing, short stories, poetry etc.
We can only promote opportunities and events which are free for writers to enter or attend and don't ask for payment from writers at any stage.
大象传媒 Comedy
From 2021, Comedy writer, writer/performer, director and producer development is looked after by 大象传媒 Comedy Commissioning, which brings together all comedy outreach that is happening across the 大象传媒 under one strategy.
The separate Caroline Aherne Bursary, Felix Dexter Bursary and Galton & Simpson Bursary for writers have been brought together with two new bursaries for directors and producers into the 大象传媒 Comedy Collective, a supercharged bursary scheme offering 10 places each year to up-and-coming writers, producers and directors who’d like to develop their careers in scripted comedy.
Find out more about the 大象传媒 Comedy Collective leaders and alumni
We will no longer open a window specifically for Comedy script submissions or run further Comedy Room writer development groups via 大象传媒 Writers.
Interested in breaking into Comedy?
Visit the 大象传媒 Comedy Commissioning website to find out about more opportunities