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Opportunities

Explore new writing opportunities and events from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ and across the industry.

Open Call

Our annual open submission opportunity for all writers aged 18 and over and resident in the UK or Republic of Ireland.

  • 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Writers & across the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½

  • The Comedy Unit | Noising Up!

    Rolling Deadlines
    Noising Up is set to return to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Scotland and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Sounds and needs your topical, satirical and observational sketches!
  • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Upload

    Upload is open to submissions all year round, with content showcased every day on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ radio stations and social and online platforms from writers and content creators across the UK.

Non-ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Opportunities

  • 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.
  • Act Bude Content Created | Radio Theatre For The Mind's Eye

    Deadline: Sunday 7th September 2025
    Writers are invited to submit short audio play scripts for this year's event.
  • Anthroplay Theatre | Anthrotalks

    Multiple Deadlines and themes throughout the year
    Anthroplay is looking for poetry, spoken word, monologues, comedy, drag, songs - the lot - for their upcoming Anthrotalks events in 2025.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fully Focused | Comedy Short Film Call Out

    Deadline: Thursday 31st July 2025
    Fully Focused are looking for comedy scripts from experienced female and gender-diverse writers who have a strong, funny voice and a passion for telling bold, original stories.
  • 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.
  • Papatango | Playwrights’ Studio

    Papatango have announced a brand-new, completely free offer for playwrights which includes digital workshops, open-access funding, one-to-one advice, in-person events, and representation on a searchable industry database.
  • The Place Playwrights Circle

    EVENTS: Various Dates
    The new Place Playwrights Circle, held at The Place Theatre, Bedford, is an opportunity for writers of all levels to share up to 10 minutes of a new play.
  • The Play Lottery

    Various Deadlines
    The Play Lottery is a playwriting contest for writers based anywhere in the UK, with a twist – the winning play is chosen entirely at random.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Script Club Cardiff

    Monthly meet-ups
    Script Club Cardiff holds monthly informal meetups for local scriptwriters.
  • Script East Midlands

    Monthly meet-ups, booking required
    A writer-led support network for scriptwriters, based in the East Midlands.
  • Support Playwrights | Summer Social

    FREE EVENT: Thursday 24th July 2025
    Support Playwrights are running a Free Summer Social in London for playwrights, screenwriters, and their friends.
  • Theatre503 | 503Five Writers' Residency

    Deadline: Midnight on Sunday 31st August 2025
    The 503Five is an 18 month residency offering five theatre writers the opportunity to develop work and find their creative home at Theatre503.
  • 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.
  • Underscore Studios | Underscore Cinema 2025

    Deadline: Midnight on Thursday 31st July 2025
    Underscore Studios is seeking short films by working-class writers and filmmakers for the second edition of their film festival, Underscore Cinema.
  • 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.
  • Yorkshire Screenwriters | Monthly Script Feedback

    Monthly Meetings
    Yorkshire Screenwriters is a community-based organisation supporting screenwriters in the region by offering Monthly Script Feedback on the first Wednesday of each month, either online or in person in central Leeds.
Help: 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.

Info: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Comedy

From 2021, Comedy writer, writer/performer, director and producer development is looked after by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Comedy Commissioning, which brings together all comedy outreach that is happening across the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Writers. 

Interested in breaking into Comedy?

Visit the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Comedy Commissioning website to find out about more opportunities

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