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 next submission window will be open between Tuesday 4th November 2025 at noon and Tuesday 2nd December 2025 at noon. Any Questions? Join one of our drop-in sessions during the submission window.
More Opportunities from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Writers & across the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
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Write Across Bradford
Submissions open: Feb to March 2026 (exact dates tbc)
Write Across Bradford is an eight-week development programme specifically designed to support emerging writers and creatives from the Bradford District who are at the early stages of their writing careers. -
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
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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. -
Actwrite
Rolling Deadline
Actwrite is seeking London-based screenwriters to join a new project connecting them with trained actors to workshop scripts. -
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. -
Capgras Theatre Company | Split Writing Lab
Deadline: Wednesday 5th November 2025 at 5 pm
Capgras Theatre Company is launching Split – a writing lab for experimental new work. -
Comedy Pilot Presents
Deadline: Friday 28th November 2025
Comedy Pilot Presents are looking for writers to contribute a six or seven paragraph monologue (or around three minutes) of biting, funny political commentary for their podcast. -
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. -
Edinburgh Screewriting Sessions
Bi-weekly meetups
An opportunity to write and socialise with other screenwriters in Scotland. -
Finborough Theatre | Open Script Submissions
Rolling submissions
Finborough Theatre welcomes unsolicited scripts at any time of the year. -
Hepburn Hooks Theatre Co | Brown Skinned Girls
Deadline: 15th December 2025
Hepburn Hooks Theatre Company are seeking out four female, BlPOC playwrights whose works they will fully produce and present at a London venue to be determined. -
Jerwood Arvon Writer Residencies
Deadline: 5pm on Monday 17th November 2025
A fully funded talent development programme for emerging writers. -
Live Theatre | The North East Playwriting Award
Deadline: 5pm on Friday 31st October 2025
Applications are open to all writers over the age of 16 who are from, living or working in the North East of England. -
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. -
OKRE | Thriller Lab
Deadline: 7th November 2025, 23:59
OKRE has launched ‘Thriller Lab’ – a £75,000 funded development programme for writers and producers. The programme will run over 3 months, commencing in January 2026. -
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. -
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. -
Rebound Productions | Search for New Playwrights
Deadline: Midnight on Friday 31st of October 2025
Rebound Productions are looking for a series of one Act fictional stage plays. -
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire | Short Film Script Submissions 2026
Deadline: Wednesday 11th February 2026
The RBC is seeking seven short film scripts to be produced in May 2026 as part of the graduation films for the BA Acting course. -
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. -
Script East Midlands | Mega Meet + ScriptEM Bursary
Deadline: 5pm on Monday 24th November
Mega Meet is an online networking event linking East Midlands playwrights to directors around the UK. -
Stolen Moments | Writer Call Out
Rolling submissions
A call out for short plays from Welsh and Wales-based writers for a new theatre platform. -
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. -
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.
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.
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