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Contests, Opportunities and Submissions
Added on 21/1/10
Competition
The Wyvern Publications Short Story Competition is now open! The top award is £100 and on-line publication.
Deadline: 1st March 2010
Competition
The Wyvern Publications Short Story Competition is now open! The top award is £100 and on-line publication.
Deadline: 1st March 2010
Added on 23/2/10
Competition
The Big Break is an annual, global screenwriting contest designed to launch the careers of aspiring writers. The Big Break Contest rewards screenwriters with cash, prizes, and A-list executive meetings.
Early Bird Deadline: 1st March 2010 ($40 fee)
Competition
The Big Break is an annual, global screenwriting contest designed to launch the careers of aspiring writers. The Big Break Contest rewards screenwriters with cash, prizes, and A-list executive meetings.
Early Bird Deadline: 1st March 2010 ($40 fee)
Added on 1/2/10
Competition
The 2010 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition is open! This is the 7th anniversary year, and the stakes are higher than ever with a total of $50,000 in Cash and Prizes.
Early Deadline: 1st March 2010
Competition
The 2010 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition is open! This is the 7th anniversary year, and the stakes are higher than ever with a total of $50,000 in Cash and Prizes.
Early Deadline: 1st March 2010
Added on 21/1/10
Competition
Limnisa is organizing a second Competition and are looking for original stories of up to 3000 words
Deadline: 1st March 2010
Competition
Limnisa is organizing a second Competition and are looking for original stories of up to 3000 words
Deadline: 1st March 2010
Added on 20/1/10
Competition
Amateur playwrights are invited to submit unpublished one-act plays for the Seventh £500 Windsor Fringe Marriott Drama Writing Award.
Deadlines: 4th March 2010
Competition
Amateur playwrights are invited to submit unpublished one-act plays for the Seventh £500 Windsor Fringe Marriott Drama Writing Award.
Deadlines: 4th March 2010
Added on 27/2/10
Call for Submissions
SWAMP is a new publication brought to you by the School of Humanities and Social Science of the University of Newcastle, Australia. SWAMP has been created by Creative Writing Postgrads for Creative Writing Postgrads.
Deadline: 5th March 2010
Call for Submissions
SWAMP is a new publication brought to you by the School of Humanities and Social Science of the University of Newcastle, Australia. SWAMP has been created by Creative Writing Postgrads for Creative Writing Postgrads.
Deadline: 5th March 2010
Added on 28/2/10
Competition
The winner of this Flash Fiction Contest will receive a copy of The 10-Day E-book, my comprehensive guide to devising, writing, editing, publishing and selling your very own money-making e-book in 10 days or fewer.
Deadline: 5th March 2010
Competition
The winner of this Flash Fiction Contest will receive a copy of The 10-Day E-book, my comprehensive guide to devising, writing, editing, publishing and selling your very own money-making e-book in 10 days or fewer.
Deadline: 5th March 2010
Added on 23/2/10
Competition
The Lionsgate Incubator is an innovative initiative to fund and develop breakthrough feature film projects. The first program will create an original, high-concept comedy developed entirely through the Massify network. This is an opportunity to work with the leading next generation studio on a breakthrough project.
Deadline: 6th March 2010
Competition
The Lionsgate Incubator is an innovative initiative to fund and develop breakthrough feature film projects. The first program will create an original, high-concept comedy developed entirely through the Massify network. This is an opportunity to work with the leading next generation studio on a breakthrough project.
Deadline: 6th March 2010
Added on 4/3/10
Competition
Now in its 8th year, It's My Shout is calling for television drama/short films, from writers who are either resident or were born in Wales.
Deadline: 8th March 2010
Competition
Now in its 8th year, It's My Shout is calling for television drama/short films, from writers who are either resident or were born in Wales.
Deadline: 8th March 2010
Added on 1/3/10
Call for Submissions
Submissions of songs and short stories are sought to support Northern Stage forthcoming production of Joan Littlewood’s revolutionary satirical musical Oh What A Lovely War.
Deadline: 12th March 2010
Call for Submissions
Submissions of songs and short stories are sought to support Northern Stage forthcoming production of Joan Littlewood’s revolutionary satirical musical Oh What A Lovely War.
Deadline: 12th March 2010
Added on 4/3/10
Competition
The Nick Darke award was conceived in 2006 by Jane Darke and Cornwall County Council with the aim of celebrating and supporting a writer.
Deadline: 12th March 2010
Competition
The Nick Darke award was conceived in 2006 by Jane Darke and Cornwall County Council with the aim of celebrating and supporting a writer.
Deadline: 12th March 2010
Added on 6/3/10
Call for Submissions
The New Uncensored African Artist (The Nuaa) is seeking contributions from African journalists, students, and other writers of African descent.
Deadline: 12th March 2010
Call for Submissions
The New Uncensored African Artist (The Nuaa) is seeking contributions from African journalists, students, and other writers of African descent.
Deadline: 12th March 2010
Added on 1/3/10
Call for Submissions
Big Telly Theatre Company presents Comedy Hijack - a unique opportunity for writers to work wtih John Wright (World renowned dramaturg, founder of Trestle Theatre Company and Told by an Idiot, author of Why is that so funny?)
Deadline: 15th March 2010
Call for Submissions
Big Telly Theatre Company presents Comedy Hijack - a unique opportunity for writers to work wtih John Wright (World renowned dramaturg, founder of Trestle Theatre Company and Told by an Idiot, author of Why is that so funny?)
Deadline: 15th March 2010
Added on 8/1/10
Competition
Enter any animal (excepting humans) and a tool and you have the start of your essay for The Pedestrian's second quarterly essay contest.
Deadline: 15th March 2010
Competition
Enter any animal (excepting humans) and a tool and you have the start of your essay for The Pedestrian's second quarterly essay contest.
Deadline: 15th March 2010
Added on 22/1/10
Competition
When it comes to prizes, it often seems as though flash fiction is the poor relation of competitions. The time seems right to inaugurate a flash fiction competition where the prize money reflects the skill required to encapsulate an entire story in just 500 words.
Deadline: 15th March 2010
Competition
When it comes to prizes, it often seems as though flash fiction is the poor relation of competitions. The time seems right to inaugurate a flash fiction competition where the prize money reflects the skill required to encapsulate an entire story in just 500 words.
Deadline: 15th March 2010
Added on 22/1/10
Competition
The vignette is a word-picture. It may be likened to the art expressed in a cameo or a miniature painting. It can be insightful, poignant, exciting, amusing or shocking. The territory is somewhere between a poem and a short story.
Deadline: 15th March 2010
Competition
The vignette is a word-picture. It may be likened to the art expressed in a cameo or a miniature painting. It can be insightful, poignant, exciting, amusing or shocking. The territory is somewhere between a poem and a short story.
Deadline: 15th March 2010
Added on 1/3/10
Call for Submissions
Call for submissions open to poets, writers, journalists, bloggers and graphic artists from all backgrounds and origins. Catch a Vibe and Black Londoners invite you to write in solidarity for Haiti. nners to be published, in the Momaya Annual Review 2010.
Deadline: 18th March 2010
Call for Submissions
Call for submissions open to poets, writers, journalists, bloggers and graphic artists from all backgrounds and origins. Catch a Vibe and Black Londoners invite you to write in solidarity for Haiti. nners to be published, in the Momaya Annual Review 2010.
Deadline: 18th March 2010
Added on 4/3/10
Opportunity
What's the Story? is a topical comedy panel show recorded in front of a live studio audience BBC Radio Wales and they will pay for your jokes..
Deadline: 18th March 2010
Opportunity
What's the Story? is a topical comedy panel show recorded in front of a live studio audience BBC Radio Wales and they will pay for your jokes..
Deadline: 18th March 2010
Added on 7/2/10
Competition
Fish Publishing is giving the opportunity to attempt what is one of the most difficult and rewarding tasks - to create, in a tiny fragment, a completely resolved and compelling story in 300 words or less
Deadline: 20th March 2010
Competition
Fish Publishing is giving the opportunity to attempt what is one of the most difficult and rewarding tasks - to create, in a tiny fragment, a completely resolved and compelling story in 300 words or less
Deadline: 20th March 2010
Added on x/3/10
Competition
The Fifth Glass Woman Prize SUBMISSION period is now in EFFECT. It will be awarded for a work of short fiction or creative non-fiction (prose) written by a woman.
Deadline: 21st March 2010
Competition
The Fifth Glass Woman Prize SUBMISSION period is now in EFFECT. It will be awarded for a work of short fiction or creative non-fiction (prose) written by a woman.
Deadline: 21st March 2010
Added on 22/1/10
Call for Submissions
Flax is committed to publishing NW writers, this means any writer who lives or works in the ACE NW arts region.
Deadline: 24th March 2010
Call for Submissions
Flax is committed to publishing NW writers, this means any writer who lives or works in the ACE NW arts region.
Deadline: 24th March 2010
Added on 25/1/10
Competition
New Writing North and the People’s Theatre Company are proud to announce the launch of the 2010 People’s Play Award. The award is run to find an exciting new play that will be produced for one week in the studio theatre at the People’s Theatre in Heaton
Deadlines: 25th March 2010
Competition
New Writing North and the People’s Theatre Company are proud to announce the launch of the 2010 People’s Play Award. The award is run to find an exciting new play that will be produced for one week in the studio theatre at the People’s Theatre in Heaton
Deadlines: 25th March 2010
Added on 8/3/10
Competition
Sentinel Literary Quarterly Comeptition is for short stories and poetry
Deadline: 25th March 2010
Competition
Sentinel Literary Quarterly Comeptition is for short stories and poetry
Deadline: 25th March 2010
Added on 18/1/10
Competition
As part of the Scotland Writes initiative, the BBC Scotland Comedy department is launching a brand new competition to seek out the country’s most exciting new comic writers.
Deadline: 26th March 2010
Competition
As part of the Scotland Writes initiative, the BBC Scotland Comedy department is launching a brand new competition to seek out the country’s most exciting new comic writers.
Deadline: 26th March 2010
Added on 10/3/10
Competition
Calderdale Libraries, Museums and Arts are holding their 4th Short Story Competition with a top prize of £300.
Date: 26th March 2010
Competition
Calderdale Libraries, Museums and Arts are holding their 4th Short Story Competition with a top prize of £300.
Date: 26th March 2010
Added on 8/1/10
Competition
Comic short stories and the graphic novel have fascinated, entertained and educated us throughout our history. From the earliest cave man drawings to the latest graphic novels, the image has been used as an integral part of many a good story.
Deadline: 30th March 2010
Competition
Comic short stories and the graphic novel have fascinated, entertained and educated us throughout our history. From the earliest cave man drawings to the latest graphic novels, the image has been used as an integral part of many a good story.
Deadline: 30th March 2010
Added on 8/1/10
Competition
RealDeal Theatre's fourth Sitcom Saturday will be held in June so start prepping your scripts now for entry.
Entry Window: 1st - 31st March 2010 only
Competition
RealDeal Theatre's fourth Sitcom Saturday will be held in June so start prepping your scripts now for entry.
Entry Window: 1st - 31st March 2010 only
Added on 5/1/10
Competition
The Exposurama Screenplay Contest wants to give you the exposure that you deserve! We have great prizes for our writers, but more importantly we're going to do everything we can to get the word out about our WINNERS!
Extended Deadline: 31st March 2010
Competition
The Exposurama Screenplay Contest wants to give you the exposure that you deserve! We have great prizes for our writers, but more importantly we're going to do everything we can to get the word out about our WINNERS!
Extended Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 17/1/10
Competition
The 2010 Bristol Short Story Prize is now open. The competition is open to all, whether UK or non-UK based. Stories can be on any theme or subject and must be previously unpublished or broadcast.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Competition
The 2010 Bristol Short Story Prize is now open. The competition is open to all, whether UK or non-UK based. Stories can be on any theme or subject and must be previously unpublished or broadcast.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 19/1/10
Competition
Exeter Writers Short Story Competition has a top prize of £200.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Competition
Exeter Writers Short Story Competition has a top prize of £200.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 17/1/10
Call for Submissions
Iron Press is looking for new funny poems on any theme to include in an anthology of new comic verse by and for grown-ups.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Call for Submissions
Iron Press is looking for new funny poems on any theme to include in an anthology of new comic verse by and for grown-ups.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 17/1/10
Competition
Yellow Room Spring Short Story Competition has a top prize of £80.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Competition
Yellow Room Spring Short Story Competition has a top prize of £80.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 20/1/10
Competition
Meridian Writing is pleased to announce our inaugural quarterly short story writing competition for stories of up to 3,000 words, open to both published and unpublished writers.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Competition
Meridian Writing is pleased to announce our inaugural quarterly short story writing competition for stories of up to 3,000 words, open to both published and unpublished writers.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 25/1/10
Competition
Prizes totalling £300 can be won for short fiction in any genre in the spring 2010 round of the Writers’ Village ‘Best Writing’ award.
Deadlines: 31st March 2010
Competition
Prizes totalling £300 can be won for short fiction in any genre in the spring 2010 round of the Writers’ Village ‘Best Writing’ award.
Deadlines: 31st March 2010
Added on x/3/10
Competition
Is there a letter you wish you had written to someone in your life? Write that letter and tell us what it might have changed and you might win £100 worth of book tokens!
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Competition
Is there a letter you wish you had written to someone in your life? Write that letter and tell us what it might have changed and you might win £100 worth of book tokens!
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Competition
Win up to £150.00 in the Jacqui Bennett Writers Bureau short story competition. Make real money from your writing.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Win up to £150.00 in the Jacqui Bennett Writers Bureau short story competition. Make real money from your writing.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 25/2/10
Competition
Now in its 16th year, the Competition 2010 is an opportunity for screenwriters to develop their scripts to a high, marketable standard through an intensive, creative and focused script development programme.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Competition
Now in its 16th year, the Competition 2010 is an opportunity for screenwriters to develop their scripts to a high, marketable standard through an intensive, creative and focused script development programme.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 25/2/10
Competition
Why not have a go at writing your own story? However odd, inspirational, poignant or bittersweet, Bookbite wants to hear about it!
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Competition
Why not have a go at writing your own story? However odd, inspirational, poignant or bittersweet, Bookbite wants to hear about it!
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 2/3/10
Competition
MoviePoet is dedicated to the art of screenwriting, in particular, the short screenplay. Each month, we run a free online five page screenplay contest.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Competition
MoviePoet is dedicated to the art of screenwriting, in particular, the short screenplay. Each month, we run a free online five page screenplay contest.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 8/3/10
Competition
Txt Lit is a literary genre of creative writing using a mobile phone texting system. A single mobile phone text message contains just 160 characters, including spaces and punctuation. We like to call stories written within these parameters Micro Stories.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Competition
Txt Lit is a literary genre of creative writing using a mobile phone texting system. A single mobile phone text message contains just 160 characters, including spaces and punctuation. We like to call stories written within these parameters Micro Stories.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 8/3/10
Call for submissions
The Juice Magazine is a new quarterly publication being brought together by a group of young graduates and students, with a background in the arts, they are currently looking for writers..
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Call for submissions
The Juice Magazine is a new quarterly publication being brought together by a group of young graduates and students, with a background in the arts, they are currently looking for writers..
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 10/3/10
Competition
The Pighog Press short story competition for writers of children’s fiction is open to unpublished writers in Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Kent.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Competition
The Pighog Press short story competition for writers of children’s fiction is open to unpublished writers in Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Kent.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
Added on 1/2/10
Opportunity
Starting on April 1st Tidy Productions are producing a topical panel show for BBC Radio Wales called "What's The Story". It's the 2nd series and this time they would like to offer you the chance to write gags or it.
Deadline: none stated
Opportunity
Starting on April 1st Tidy Productions are producing a topical panel show for BBC Radio Wales called "What's The Story". It's the 2nd series and this time they would like to offer you the chance to write gags or it.
Deadline: none stated
Added on 23/2/10
Call for Submissions
Unthank Books is a new independent publishing house. Based in London and Norwich, UNTHANK aims to publish the kind of books you used to read and enjoy, but struggle to find any more.
Deadline: none stated
Call for Submissions
Unthank Books is a new independent publishing house. Based in London and Norwich, UNTHANK aims to publish the kind of books you used to read and enjoy, but struggle to find any more.
Deadline: none stated
Added on 9/3/10
Competition
FoxedUP Theatre is a new, exciting, all-female theatre company, seeking submissions from playwrights for casts of 7 or more women, to be performed at a London fringe venue later in the year!
Deadline: none stated
Competition
FoxedUP Theatre is a new, exciting, all-female theatre company, seeking submissions from playwrights for casts of 7 or more women, to be performed at a London fringe venue later in the year!
Deadline: none stated
Events, Screenings, Training and Workshops
Updated on 2/3/10
Event
London Fringe Club is a fortnightly event that aims to bring artists together before the launch of London Festival Fringe 2010
Dates: 2nd March 2010, 7.00pm
Event
London Fringe Club is a fortnightly event that aims to bring artists together before the launch of London Festival Fringe 2010
Dates: 2nd March 2010, 7.00pm
Added on 22/2/10
Event
John Yorke, Controller Drama Production & New Talent, will answer questions about writing for continuing drama shows like EastEnders, Holby City, Casualty, and Doctors as well as the BBC Writers Academy in a Q&A session with Kate Rowland, BBC Creative Director of New Writing.
Deadline: 4th March 2010
Event
John Yorke, Controller Drama Production & New Talent, will answer questions about writing for continuing drama shows like EastEnders, Holby City, Casualty, and Doctors as well as the BBC Writers Academy in a Q&A session with Kate Rowland, BBC Creative Director of New Writing.
Deadline: 4th March 2010
Event
London Comedy Writers meet again with another a couple sketches and a sitcom.
Date: 9th March 2010
London Comedy Writers meet again with another a couple sketches and a sitcom.
Date: 9th March 2010
Added on 24/2/10
Event
ComComedy presents Spring Party. Another amazing line up of stand up, sketches, and improv rap,
Date: 10th March 2010
Event
ComComedy presents Spring Party. Another amazing line up of stand up, sketches, and improv rap,
Date: 10th March 2010
Added on 2/3/10
Event
Laughing Cows Comedy Night - The Sell-Out Comedy Night With A Fabulous All-Female Line Up.
Date: 11th March 2010
Event
Laughing Cows Comedy Night - The Sell-Out Comedy Night With A Fabulous All-Female Line Up.
Date: 11th March 2010
Added on 25/2/10
Event
The BFI are delighted to welcome the iconic director John Landis back to the BFI Southbank stage.
Deadline: 16th March 2010
Event
The BFI are delighted to welcome the iconic director John Landis back to the BFI Southbank stage.
Deadline: 16th March 2010
Updated on 2/3/10
Event
London Fringe Club is a fortnightly event that aims to bring artists together before the launch of London Festival Fringe 2010
Dates: 16th March 2010, 7.00pm
Event
London Fringe Club is a fortnightly event that aims to bring artists together before the launch of London Festival Fringe 2010
Dates: 16th March 2010, 7.00pm
Event
London Comedy Writers meet again with another a couple sketches and a sitcom.
Date: 23rd March 2010
London Comedy Writers meet again with another a couple sketches and a sitcom.
Date: 23rd March 2010
Updated on 2/3/10
Event
London Fringe Club is a fortnightly event that aims to bring artists together before the launch of London Festival Fringe 2010
Dates: 30th March 2010, 7.00pm
Event
London Fringe Club is a fortnightly event that aims to bring artists together before the launch of London Festival Fringe 2010
Dates: 30th March 2010, 7.00pm
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