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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Writers & across the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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. -
The Comedy Unit | Noising Up!
Rolling Deadlines
Noising Up is set to return to ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds and needs your topical, satirical and observational sketches! -
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Upload
Upload is open to submissions all year round, with content showcased every day on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ radio stations and social and online platforms from writers and content creators across the UK.
Non-ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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. -
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. -
Cheshire Prize for Literature 2024/25
Deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
Cheshire Prize is open for entrants to submit a script into the scriptwriting category. -
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. -
Druid Theatre | New Writing Window
Deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
Druid Theatre's New Writing Script Submission Window is now open for playwrights based in Ireland. -
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. -
Liverpoolβs 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. -
Messy Writers | Monthly London Meet-Ups
Monthly Meet Ups
An opportunity for London based screenwriters who want to share opportunities and meet potential collaborators. -
National Student Drama Festival 2025
Deadline: Monday 30th December 2024
Submissions are now open for people aged 16-25 who have a show or work-in-progress which could be performed or shared at NSDF 2025. -
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. -
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 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 Repβs 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 Birmingham Conservatoire | Short Film Script Submissions 2025
Deadline: Monday 11th February 2025
The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of Acting is accepting script submissions for short films to be shot in 2025. -
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 βPodPlayβ β a tiny little audioverse. -
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. -
SlΓ‘inte! Theatre | Monthly Scratch Nights
Rolling submissions
SlΓ 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. -
Union Theatre | Call Out for Shorts
Deadline: 12pm on Wednesday 25th December 2025
The Union Theatre are looking for short plays from London based writers for their inaugural double-night of shorts. -
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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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.
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Comedy
From 2021, Comedy writer, writer/performer, director and producer development is looked after by ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Comedy Commissioning, which brings together all comedy outreach that is happening across the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Writers.
Interested in breaking into Comedy?
Visit the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Comedy Commissioning website to find out about more opportunities