The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2024 playwright competition. The winning play will be selected by the series’ current judge, Jeremy O. Harris.

The Yale Drama series aims at publishing serious works that contribute to a global understanding of human affairs, Yale University Press aids in the discovery and dissemination of light and truth, lux et veritas, which is a central purpose of Yale University.

There is no entry fee to enter the competition.

Submission Guidelines

1. This contest is restricted to plays written in the English language.
2. Worldwide submissions are accepted.
3. Submissions must be original, unpublished full-length plays, with a minimum of 65 pages. Plays with less than 65 pages will not be considered. Translations, musicals, and children’s plays are not accepted.
4. The Yale Drama Series is intended to support emerging playwrights. Playwrights may win the competition only once.
5. Playwrights may submit only one manuscript per year.  Only manuscripts authored by one playwright are eligible.
6. Plays that have been professionally produced or published are not eligible. Plays that have had a workshop, reading, or non-professional production or that have been published as an actor’s edition will be considered.
7. Plays may not be under option, commissioned, or scheduled for professional production or publication at the time of submission.
8. Plays must be typed/word-processed and page-numbered.
9. The Yale Drama Series reserves the right to reject any manuscript for any reason.
10. The Yale Drama Series reserves the right of the judge to not choose a winner for any given year of the competition and reserves the right to determine the ineligibility of a winner, in keeping with the spirit of the competition, and based upon the accomplishments of the author.
11. The Yale Drama Series Competition strongly urges electronic submission. By electronically submitting your script, you will receive immediate confirmation of your successful submission and the ability to check the status of your entry.
12. Electronic submissions for the 2024 competition must be submitted no earlier than June 1, 2023, and no later than August 15, 2023. The submission window closes at midnight EST.
13. If you are submitting your play electronically, please omit your name and contact information from your manuscript and submission file name.
14. The manuscript must begin with a title page that shows the play’s title, a 2-3 sentence keynote description of the play, a list of characters, and a list of acts and scenes. Please enter the title of your play, your name and contact information (including address, phone number, and email address), and a brief biography where indicated in the electronic submission form.
15. Submissions should  only be made Here

Prize

The winner will be awarded;

• The David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000,
• Publication of their manuscript by Yale University Press, and a celebratory event.
• The prize and publication are contingent on the playwright’s agreeing to the terms of the publishing agreement.

Goodluck!

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Platform Presents Playwright Prize for 2023 is currently open to playwriters from all over the world. 

Submission Guidelines For Platform Presents Playwright Prize 2023

This is an open call for distinctive, dynamic, heart-stopping, extraordinary, wonderful plays. Ensure to thoroughly edit your work and submit your best. 

• Please submit a full or partial play of up to 10,000 words.
• One submission per Playwright / Playwrighting team.
• Submissions from all countries are welcome. 
• Please follow @platformpresents on social media for the latest updates.
• Due to the high number of submissions, they are unfortunately unable to give feedback.
• Writers must use the form on the Platform Presents website to submit. 

Prize

The winner receives £5,000 and mentoring to bring their play to stage and or screen. The five Runners-Up each receive £1,000.

Deadline

The Playwright Prize 2023 is open until until midday on May 15th 2023.

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The international Radio Playwriting Competition is open for submission.

Writers from around the world are invited to submit their scripts at the 28th International Radio Playwriting Competition.

The global competition, hosted by BBC World Service and the British Council, offers the unique opportunity for writers to use the medium of audio drama to tell stories for an international audience.

The last competition in 2019/20 attracted 850 entries from 104 countries, with regional winners coming from Colombia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago.

They are looking for entries in two categories: English as a First Language and English as a Second Language. The two first prizes can come from either category.

The closing date for entries is midnight (GMT) on 12 February 2023.

Who is Eligible to Apply for the International Radio Playwriting Competition 2023?

• Entry is only open to anyone who, at 12 February 2023, is over the age of 18 and not considered being a resident of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Channel Islands or Isle of Man (“UK”).
• Professional and previously published writers are eligible to enter, but this is not a requirement of entry. They may require proof of eligibility.
• Writers who are applying, must not be BBC, BBC Group company, or British Council employees, close relatives of such employees or any person connected to the competition. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested.
• Entrants should write a radio play of approximately fifty-three minutes’ length on any subject of their choice.
• They will deem the winning playwrights to have entered an undertaking not to accept offers for their entries from other broadcasters or publishers before 31 March, 2024.
•  A minimum of 45 pages of A4 paper (or equivalent) and a maximum of 65 pages (note, a rough guide is a minute per page; please read and time your play before you send it).
• The play should have a maximum of six central characters.
• There must be no central roles for children. Word count approx. 9000-10000 words.

How to Submit:

• The script for your 53-minute radio play with up to six central characters. This should be submitted as a PDF file.
• A written synopsis outlining the complete story of your play. This should be no more than 400 words long, and submitted as a PDF file
• Submit your entry online or download an entry form to enter via post or email.

Prize for the International Radio Playwriting Competition 2023:

Prize: The Cash Prize and the Trip
The Cash Prize: £2,500 sterling (or the equivalent in a local currency at the BBC’s discretion)
The Trip: a trip to London (standard airfare and accommodation for one person).

Both winners will attend an award ceremony in London and see their plays being recorded for broadcast and streaming on BBC World Service. A Special Commendation will be made for the runner-up in honour of the BBC World Service journalist and writer Georgi Markov (1929-1978).

Good-luck! Endeavor to check out other contests you can apply for!

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Emerging women writers are invited to apply to the amazing BlackBird Books Writers Residency Program for Young African Women.

Blackbird books is an imprint of Jacana Media. And this program is being organized in collaboration with Casa Lorde and Eunice Ngogodo Own Voices Initiative.

If you have been looking for a publisher, you might want to take advantage of the platform that BlackBird Books is currently offering.

Who is eligible to apply for the BlackBird Books Writer’s Residency for Young African Women at Pretoria ?

• Entrants must be from an African country.
• Writers must be aged  between 18 and 40 years old.
• Only women writers will be considered.
• The residency is open to writers of all literary genres: novel, poetry, essay, storytelling, narration, theatre, etc.

What kind of support will selected participants get during the residency:

• Accommodation during the writer’s 4-week stay in Brooklyn, Pretoria. The residency will hold in October (2019) and February (2020).
• Breakfast
• basic expenses included (toiletries, unlimited Wi-Fi).
• R5,000 (five thousand) stipend for basic expenses
• Private bedroom and private bathroom inside Casa Lorde,
• a collective working space.
• Meeting and working sessions with professional writers from South Africa.

Successful participants will be responsible for their transport costs to Pretoria.

General Rules of the Residency:

• Selected writers must produce a text. However, BlackBird Books is not obligated to publish it.

How to apply?

To apply, entrants must send in the following documents:

• A letter of motivation specifying how you would benefit from your stay at Casa Lorde
• A brief description of the project you plan to develop during the residency
• A writing CV
• A brief biography (500 words)
• Writing sample (published or unpublished)
• Indicate your preferred dates. Choose between October 2019 and February 2020
• All applications must reach the organizers before the 31th August, 2019 deadline.

Where to submit your application materials

• Email your application as an MS Word or PDF attachment to the following email addresses:

info@everapublishing.co.za
na.floresga@gmail.com

• Your subject line should read:  Casa Lorde Writer’s Residency application. 

Application deadline: 31 August 2019.

Successful applicants will be notified by the first weeks of September, 2019.

Good luck.

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Throughout the year, the University of South Hampton holds writing contests in the following categories:

•  stage plays
• film
• radio plays
• book
• tv
• interactive fiction

They want creative works themed around ‘building a sustainable society’.

What genres and sub-genres do the judges consider?

They do not discriminate against any genre(s), so you can submit whatever genre you prefer to write, be it:

• Romance comedy
• Humor
• Literary fiction
• Science fiction
• Mystery
• Crime and so on.

Stories must engage with the idea of environmentally sustainable practices and/or sustainable societies.Writers are encouraged to imagine a more positive settings and practices for their stories.

According to the press release:

“The story doesn’t have to be about sustainability or climate change directly. A rom-com, for example, could be set in a society that replaces ownership with borrowing and the heroine goes to a clothes library to pick up a posh dress and borrow jewellery for her big date; or the hero in a crime drama could use a carbon credit card and hear the news in the background reporting on the wellbeing index instead of GDP; or the characters in a legal drama could live in a city where everyone has gardens on their roofs and generates energy from their own waste.”

Who is eligible to apply for the University of Southampton’s Green Stories Writing Competitions 2019 ?

• Writers from all nationalities
• Entrants whose works are original and free from plagiarism
• Writers who are passionate about maintaining a green environment.
• Do not submit previously published works.

Submission Guidelines for the University of Southampton’s Green Stories Writing Competitions 2019

For Stage Plays:

• (Length: min 1 hour 15 minutes max 2 hours (typically 60-80 pages))

Click HERE to submit

For Radio play/Drama/Comedy series:

Length/format: choose one of three categories

1. 45 minute drama: send whole script + 1 page synopsis
2. 6 x 30 minute comedy series: send sample/pilot episode + 3 pages outlining remaining episodes (these should be ready as we will ask for them if shortlisted).
3. 5 x 15 minute drama series: send the first two 15 minutes episodes and an outline of the further 3 episodes (these should be ready as we will ask for them if shortlisted).

Click HERE to submit

For Novel Manuscript:

Length:  This will depend on genre, normal novels are 50,000 – 100, 000 words but children’s books may be as little as 15000. Submit the first 5,000 words double-spaced and numbered pages plus a one-page synopsis.  We will then ask for the full novel from best entries.

Click HERE to submit

Full-length Screenplay

Length: Assuming 1 minute per page, aim for 90-120 pages.

Click HERE to submit

Short film:

Length: between 3 and 20 minutes

Submission link will be made available towards the deadline

TV /Netflix series

Length: 6 episodes 25-60 minutes each.

Click HERE to submit

Interactive Fiction (team entries are allowed):

Specifications: an introduction to the story and around an hour’s worth of material/gameplay.

If you’re new to Interactive Fiction, there is a wealth of Free Software available, such as Ink and Twine for producing interactive scripts, as well as programming tools based on natural language, such as Inform7. Good examples of Interactive Fiction can be found via The Interactive Fiction Competition and The Interactive Fiction Database

Submission link will be made available towards the deadline

What Will Writers Receive?

Winners in each category will receive:
£500 for the first prize

£100 for the second prize

£50 for the third prize

Bonus £50 for best student submission (18-25 years)

Another £50 for best submission by a creative under 18 years.

Winners will have their works published or produced (depending on the category)

Dates to note:
Deadlines for the submission of:

Stage play is 30th June 2019

Radio play/drama/comedy series, 31 August 2019

Full-length novel manuscript, September 2019

Full-length film screenplay, October 2019

Short (or feature) film, November 2019

TV/Netflix 6-part series,

Interactive Fiction: 1 December 2019 for interactive fiction

Email all inquiries tol: Greenstories@soton.ac.uk

Good luck!

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The Jericho fellowship prize 2019 is open to submissions for emerging and established artists in the following creative art fields:

• Essay writing
• Playwriting
• Visual arts
• And Innovation.

Writers are welcome to submit single submissions or series of pieces in any of the aforementioned genres. No entry fee is required. Winners will receive mouth-watering cash prizes and all-expense paid trips to a symposium.

The theme of the 2019 Jericho fellowship prizes is Epiphany.

According to the press release,

An epiphany is that moment when the unseen becomes manifest, the unspoken is articulated, and confusion yields to utter clarity. It is perhaps the search for that epiphany that matters most. It entails the work of the imagination, the suspension of disbelief, the silencing of doubt. And the willingness to not let the search for that perfect moment ~ that epiphany ~ obscure and negate what comes before it.

Who is eligible to apply for the Jericho fellowship prizes 2019?

• Artists from all over the world are eligible to apply.
• Entrants must be at least 18 yeast old or more.

Submissions guidelines for the Jericho fellowship prizes 2019

• All entries must reflect the theme: Epiphany

• Maximum word count is 2500 words for essays and plays..

• Visual Arts submissions must be in image format or video format. Submissions must include dimensions of the work and details of the media used. Password-protected files must be submitted along with the passwords.
• Innovation prizes should be images, descriptions, video, software, tangible prototype, or proposed design of the work.

• Entrants must submit only one entry in each genre. For instance, do not submit two essays or two plays.

• Entries must be in English.

• All submission must reach the organizers before the  July 30th, 2019 deadline.

How To Apply (Or submit your entr(y)ies):

• Depending on your expertise and artistic endeavor, entries should be clearly marked as:

1. submissions for the ‘Essay Prize’.
2. submissions for the ‘Playwriting Prize
3. submissions for the ‘Visual Arts Prize
4. submissions for the ‘Innovation Prize

• All submissions must be made via email to: apply@jerichofellowship.com

Prizes and Awards:

Winners in every category will receive:

• A cash prize of £8000.
• An invitation to attend the symposium where they will be presented with their prize.
• Flights and accommodation will be covered while the writer is at the symposium.

Forward all inquiries to apply@jerichofellowship.com.

Good luck.

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HowlRound is a “free and open platform’ for anyone who is a part and parcel of the theatre field. Theatre enthusiasts from all over the world are free to submit essays.  Do not send personal attacks, adverts, or previously published essays.

What are the editors interested in?

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• Theatre commoning (Resources managed and produced with generosity and abundance, community and collaboration)
• Ideas and practices that challenge—and seek to revolutionize—the status quo
• Lesser-known or marginalized aesthetics, or new forms of theatre practice
• Equity, inclusivity, and accessibility for underrepresented theatre communities and practices
• Theatre practice, process, and relevant issues in a specific geographic location but that are meaningful and relevant to others around the world.

Payments:

All authors receive payments. However, emoluments are awarded based on the length of the essays.

• Pieces between 750-1000 words earn the writer $50 . Usually for blog articles
• Pieces between 1000-1500 words earn the writer: $100
• And essays between 1500-2000 words: $150 earn the writer
•  They pay $100 for NewCrit reviews (1,000 to 1,500 words).

How To Apply

To Apply, visit their write for this journal page.

Howlround was founded in Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

Good luck

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BBC World Service and British Council  has announced the winners of the prestigious 2018 international radio playwriting competition.

This year, 1,500 submissions were received from 114 countries. Amazing isn’t it?

1500 entries received from 114 countries.

Who Won The BBC World Service International Playwriting Competition for 2018?

The first two prizes were awarded to:

1. “Aziz H” from Yemen with his play A Broken Heart in a Warzone

A dark comedy about two audacious thieves in a warzone, who steal from other people’s houses when their owners flee to air-raid shelters during the frequent bombings. But the thieves’ luck is about to change, when they find themselves inextricably involved in a surprising and dramatic domestic drama

2. Colette Victor from Belgium with her script, By God’s Mercy.

In this comedy drama set in an impoverished South African township, Mercy’s new occupation is seen from the point of view of a mattress. And yes we did say mattress.

The aforementioned playwrights will be given:

• An opportunity to visit the UK to attend a prize-giving ceremony on 17 October 2018.  This ceremony will hold in London.
• A chance to  hear and see their winning radio scripts being recorded at the BBC, ahead of their broadcast on the BBC World Service in 2019.

Special winner and awards (for the Georgi Markov prize):

Bode Asiyanbi, a Nigerian playwright who was awarded the Georgi Markov prize for his play The Journey to Fortune? 

As the tension mounts on a popular quiz show, a panellist is surprised to find that he is able to answer the questions put to him. How? His unique experiences in trying to leave Nigeria for Europe (via Libya) seem to have unwittingly provided them….

The Georgi Markov prize is awarded to writers whose scripts has the most outstanding potential from the competition’s shortlist. The prize was established in memory of BBC World Service journalist Georgi Markov., a proponent of freedom of creative expression.

Bode will also get a chance to attend the prize-giving ceremony in London. He will also spend two weeks at the BBC, to be mentored by BBC Radio Drama and BBC World Service. Congratulations to Bode Asiyanbi.

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2018 International Playwriting Competition.

We  can’t wait to hear your plays and read your books.

According to Neil Webb, Director of Theatre and Dance at the British Council,:

This competition is an important part of the British Council’s programme developing new playwrights around the world — discovering new talent, helping global artists find new opportunities, and connecting with the UK. Sharing stories is a powerful way for us to connect with different cultures, explore difficult issues and be inspired by fresh voices.”

And from Steve Titherington, BBC World Service Senior Commissioning Editor:

These are fascinating and compelling plays, each with a distinct style and exploring important themes. The winning plays are remarkable, inventive and beautifully written. It is a privilege to see the breadth of ideas shown by writers around the world.”

In the past, both budding and professional playwrights have won the competition. The competition has served as a launchpad for the winners.

Interested in applying for the next edition? Great! Start working on your plays. I’ll definitely publish their call for submissions when the prize opens.

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