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 next Open Call submission window will be between 12 noon on Tuesday 5th November 2024 and 12 noon on Tuesday 3rd December 2024.
More Opportunities from 91热爆 Writers & across the 91热爆
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The Comedy Unit | Noising Up!
Rolling Deadlines
Noising Up is set to return to 91热爆 Radio Scotland and 91热爆 Sounds and needs your topical, satirical and observational sketches! -
91热爆 Writers | Digital Sessions for Screenwriting Students
Webinar events held once each academic term
Register your interest to be kept informed of future dates and sign-up instructions. -
91热爆 Upload
Upload is open to submissions all year round, with content showcased every day on 91热爆 radio stations and social and online platforms from writers and content creators across the UK.
Non-91热爆 Opportunities
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Anthroplay Theatre | Anthrotalks
DEADLINE: 11 am on Monday 4th November 2024
Anthrotalks is an evening of poetry, comedy and songs, curated by Anthroplay. A variety of exceptional artists take to the stage, with each night revolving around a different theme. -
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. -
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2025
Deadline: 6pm GMT Thursday 9th January 2025
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting - celebrating its 20th anniversary - is the largest playwriting competition in Europe and searches for scripts that are original and unperformed, by writers of any experience over the age of 16. -
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. -
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. -
Female Pilot Club | 2025 Script Call
Deadline: Friday 15th November 2024.
Female Pilot Club is running a script mentorship initiative that could help working class female writers get to the next stage of their Comedy careers. -
Ffilm Cymru Wales | Feature Film Development Fund
Deadline: Thursday 14th November 2024.
Ffilm Cymru Wales develops live-action, documentary, and animated feature films for cinema audiences led by Wales born or based writers, directors, and producers. -
Film Hub North | Early Development Fund
Deadline:11 am on Tuesday 19th November 2024.
The BFI NETWORK Early Development Fund supports writers in the North through the initial stages of development for debut long-form projects. -
Finborough Theatre | Open Script Submissions
Rolling submissions
Finborough Theatre welcomes unsolicited scripts at any time of the year. -
INK Festival | Autumn 2024 Script Writing Courses
Various free writing courses in person and online from September to December 2024 -
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. -
Manchester Screenwriting Meet Up
Ongoing Meet Ups
An opportunity for Manchester based screenwriters who want to develop their craft and learn more about screenwriting. -
Menagerie's Young Writers' Workshop 2025
Deadline: 5pm on Friday 22nd November 2024
Menagerie Theatre Company is now accepting applications for their development programme for playwrights aged 18 鈥� 30 who are based in the East. -
Messy Writers | Monthly London Meet-Ups
Monthly Meet Ups
An opportunity for London based screenwriters who want to share opportunities and meet potential collaborators. -
Picky Bits | Scratch Night
Deadline: Monday 11th November 2024
Picky Bits - a one off scratch night - is looking for global majority writers to read extracts of their own work. -
The Rep | Feedback Fridays
Various Submission windows between September 2024 and 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. -
Rianne Pictures | Rianne Reads
Deadline: Saturday 30th November 2024
Rianne Pictures is offering free feedback on 30 short film scripts for women and gender non-conforming film writers. -
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. -
The Scene Podcast
Deadline: Midnight on Tuesday 31st December 2024
The Scene Podcast offers anybody the chance to have their script made in to a 鈥楶odPlay鈥� 鈥� a tiny little audioverse. -
Scribe Lounge Labs 2024
EVENT: 11am on Wednesday 6th November 2024
91热爆 Writers will be at the free online screenwriting festival to talk about Open Call. -
Script Club Cardiff
Monthly meet-ups on the first Sunday of the month from 7th April 2024
Script Club Cardiff is launching monthly informal meetups for local scriptwriters. -
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 91热爆 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.
91热爆 Comedy
From 2021, Comedy writer, writer/performer, director and producer development is looked after by 91热爆 Comedy Commissioning, which brings together all comedy outreach that is happening across the 91热爆 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 91热爆 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 91热爆 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 91热爆 Writers.
Interested in breaking into Comedy?
Visit the 91热爆 Comedy Commissioning website to find out about more opportunities