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.
More Opportunities from ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Writers & across the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ
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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Writers Digital Session for Screenwriting Students
EVENT: Wednesday 22nd October 2025 13.00 - 14.00
To help students gain a better understanding of the work undertaken by ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Writers, we run online webinars in every academic term. -
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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Scotland and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sounds and needs your topical, satirical and observational sketches! -
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Upload
Upload is open to submissions all year round, with content showcased every day on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ radio stations and social and online platforms from writers and content creators across the UK.
Non-³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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. -
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. -
Glasgow Film Festival | Funny Features
Deadline: 12 noon on October 7th October 2025
Following the success of its inaugural edition, applications for Glasgow Film Festival’s innovative UK-wide comedy lab, Funny Features, are now open. The festival is seeking ideas for bold, original features with the potential to become the next big UK comedy hit. -
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. -
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. -
The Play Lottery
Deadline:12 noon on Tuesday 10th October 2025
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. -
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 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 Club Cardiff | New Writing Night
Deadline: Monday 27th October 2025
Script Club Cardiff are inviting 10-minute plays inspired by the festive season for their New Writing Night in December. -
Script East Midlands
Monthly meet-ups, booking required
A writer-led support network for scriptwriters, based in the East Midlands. -
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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Comedy
From 2021, Comedy writer, writer/performer, director and producer development is looked after by ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Comedy Commissioning, which brings together all comedy outreach that is happening across the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Writers.
Interested in breaking into Comedy?
Visit the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Comedy Commissioning website to find out about more opportunities