The Windsor Fringe is now accepting unpublished one-act plays from amateur playwrights for its ninth Award. Three winning scripts will be selected for performance in October during the 2012 Windsor Fringe Festival.  The winner writer will receive a £500 cash prize and The Windsor Fringe will underwrite the staging of the winner and the two runners -up with selected directors.

Criteria: Amateur playwrights only, one script per entrant.  Plays must not have been previously performed, be the original work of the entrant and be suitable for staging in a studio theatre with no more than six actors.  Plays must be no more than 30 minutes long.

Guidelines:
- Submit two copies of each script, printed on loose sheets of A4 paper, no binding or stapling.
- Pages must be numbered.
- No submissions by email, no scripts returned. Judging is on a blind-submission basis – author’s name must not appear in the script.
- Cover page must include name of the play, author’s name, contact details and signature.
- BBC writersroom applicants will be granted a waiver of the £5 reading fee if the words “Writers Room” appear in the top right- hand corner of the cover page.

The three short-listed author’s works will be performed on the last 3 nights of The Windsor Fringe Festival during October, and the announcement made in mid-June 2012. Rehearsals start at the beginning of August. The winner will be announced after the last performance.

Deadline: 5th March 2011

Scripts should be sent to:
Windsor Fringe Drama Writing Award
Suite 640, 24-28 St Leonard’s Road
Windsor, Berks. SL4 3BB

Further details here.

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