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 ±«Óãtv Writers & across the ±«Óãtv
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±«Óãtv Radio 4 | The Skewer
Deadline: Weekly until Wednesday 30th October 2024
Unusual Productions are looking for contributors for Season 12 of their award winning topical comedy show, The Skewer for ±«Óãtv Radio 4. -
The Comedy Unit | Noising Up!
Rolling Deadlines
Noising Up is set to return to ±«Óãtv Radio Scotland and ±«Óãtv Sounds and needs your topical, satirical and observational sketches! -
±«Óãtv 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. -
±«Óãtv Upload
Upload is open to submissions all year round, with content showcased every day on ±«Óãtv radio stations and social and online platforms from writers and content creators across the UK.
Non-±«Óãtv Opportunities
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A Little Bit of The Script's the Thing
EVENT: Wednesday 16th October 2024 2024
In this special ‘spin-off’ evening to the Dorset Scriptwriting Festival, writers can enjoy contributions from actors, playwrights and directors. -
Bad Wolf | Blaidd Writers Programme
Deadline: Friday 4th October
Industry, Doctor Who and His Dark Materials producer Bad Wolf launch new writer development programme for Welsh screenwriters. -
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. -
Caromoon Productions | Call for Playwrights
Deadline: Friday 25th October 2024
Caromoon Productions are seeking passionate and new playwrights to submit short, 20-minute plays for an exciting evening of theatre . -
Channel 4 Screenwriting Course
Deadline: Friday 4th October 2024
The course is to offer 12 writers new to television drama an insight into how the industry works and what it can be like to write under a television drama commission. -
Conker Pictures | Writer in Residence Scheme
Deadline: Friday 18th October 2024
Belfast-based TV production company, Conker Pictures Northern Ireland is looking for up-and-coming writers from Northern Ireland for their brand-new, year-long Writer In Residence scheme. -
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. -
Finborough Theatre | Open Script Submissions
Rolling submissions
Finborough Theatre welcomes unsolicited scripts at any time of the year. -
INK Festival | Short Play Submissions
Deadline: 31st October 2024 at 23.59 for students (general submissions are closed)
INK is the UK’s leading short new play company, producing every year over 70 new scripts for stage and radio at the annual 5-day INK Festival in Halesworth Suffolk. Submissions are open now. -
INK Festival | Autumn 2024 Script Writing Courses
Various free writing courses in person and online from September to December 2024 -
Liverpool’s 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. -
MO&NA Theatre Company | From Scratch
Deadline: Midnight on Wednesday 9th October 2024
MO&NA Theatre Company are on the look-out for fresh, new scripts to feature in their upcoming 'From Scratch' event. -
Peripeteia Theatre Company | The Boiler Room Call-Out
Deadline: Friday 4th October 2024
The theatre company is accepting submissions for full-length scripts. -
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’s in-house directors. -
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 ‘PodPlay’ – 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. -
Sláinte! Theatre | Monthly Scratch Nights
Rolling submissions
Slà 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 ±«Óãtv 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.
±«Óãtv Comedy
From 2021, Comedy writer, writer/performer, director and producer development is looked after by ±«Óãtv Comedy Commissioning, which brings together all comedy outreach that is happening across the ±«Óãtv 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 ±«Óãtv 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 ±«Óãtv 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 ±«Óãtv Writers.
Interested in breaking into Comedy?
Visit the ±«Óãtv Comedy Commissioning website to find out about more opportunities