Buxton Opera House launches a scriptwriting competition designed to celebrate the town and encourage local 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.

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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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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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.

VAULT Creative Arts offer a wide range of opportunities for early-career artists at their home, The Glitch.

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Dramatic Action with Simon Stephens: Theatre503 10/04/2025, A structured interrogation of the nature of #Dramatic action and how playwrights can approach it. This will be an in-person session. Dates: Thursday 10 April 2025 Time: 7pm – 9:30pm Running time of workshop: 2.…

Learn about the Oxford/42 New Writing Prize offering £1500 and professional representation to UK-based novelists, playwrights, and screenwriters. Application deadline: 30 April 2025.

Dramatic Action with Simon Stephens: Theatre503 10/04/2025, A structured interrogation of the nature of #Dramatic action and how playwrights can approach it. This will be an in-person session. Dates: Thursday 10 April 2025 Time: 7pm – 9:30pm Running time of workshop: 2.…

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A 2.5 hour workshop to help you create impactful treatments, outlines, bibles & one-pagers & understand exactly what these documents are!

We are on the lookout for creatives and facilitators to deliver creative writing workshops for our Awaaz Programme. Awaaz is Octagon's brand-new arts progr

The DCC Playwriting Prize for 2025 is now open! A £1000 micro-commission is available for one North West artist.

Is theatre still the ideal venue for exploring challenging, complex and even potentially offensive topics? Dr Monika Smialkowska discusses these issues with Mark Rosenblatt, author of the new play Gia...