Bare Bones will be a showcase night of new short plays performed at the Old Red Lion in Islington from January 2010.  Closing date for submissions is Saturday 14th November.


Sequel to Cannes Short Film Script Competition.  Deadline extended to 25th November 2009.



Big Village Fringe Show Competition. Amateur theatre group looking for a new play (40-60 minutes in duation) to take to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010. Deadline: Friday 27th November 2009.


Silverback Screenwriting Competition is open for submissions.  Deadline is 1st December 2009.




Met Film Creative's Online Pitch Competition.  Got a great idea for a webseries?  They want to hear from you.  Deadline for submissions is 1st December 2009.





The Tony Doyle Bursary for New Writing is now accepting applications.  Deadline for submissions is 4th December 2009.





iFeatures - making films about Bristol and the South West. Deadline 8th December 2009.





Spilt Milk theatre.  Deadline 14 december 2009.








Stage International Script Competition.  Deadline 15th December 2009.



Story Works. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival.  Deadline: 18th December 2009.





Open Stage (Tron theatre).  Deadline 18 December 2009.




Guiding Lights mentoring scheme.  Deadline 23 December 2009.




The Sitcom Mission.  Deadline 31 December 2009.



Arundel Town Festival Theatre Trail (Drip Action).  Deadline 31 December 2009.




Watermill New Writing Festival Script Submissions.  Deadline 1 January 2010.



Ignite Playwriting Competition.  Deadline 8 January 2010.

The Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Filmakers Fund are looking for scripts that explore scientific, mathematical, or technological themes or that feature a leading character who is a scientist, engineer, innovator or mathematician.
Deadline: Monday 11th January 2010.


The Westminster Prize is a theatre playwriting competition open to those who live, work or study in the London borough of Westminster. 
Deadline: Monday 11th January 2010.



24:7 Theatre Festival are looking for plays that are original, unpublished and no longer than 60 minutes. The Festival is held in Manchester in July.
Deadline: Thursday 14th January 2010.



The Company, in association with New Writing South and the Steyning Festival are looking for 6 unperformed plays (max length 45 mins), from playwrights from the South East, for the Steyning Festival Theatre Trials.  Deadline: Friday 15th January 2010.





Your Big Break - Barrie Osborne and Peter Jackson will support 5 new film-makers to produce a 3 minute film capturing the spirit of New Zealand. Deadline: Friday 15th January 2010.








The Magic Hour is a scheme for disabled filmmakers which will produce four films, each with a budget of £10,000.  Deadline: Friday 15th January 2010.




Script Space at the Tobacco Factory Theatre are looking for one-act plays for rehearsed readings. 
Deadline: Friday 15th January 2010.







New Writing North are looking for four new writers from the North East of England to mentor in their North East Theatre Consortium Script Development programme.  Deadline: Friday 15th January 2010.




Bare Bones is a showcase of new short plays at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington, London. 
Deadline: Saturday 16th January 2010 (for March showcase).

Big Finish, who produce Doctor Who audio adventures, are offering new writers an opportunity to pitch for their next production. They are looking for pitches for a one-off 25' story featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa.  Check out their submission guidelines. Deadline Monday 1st Feburary.

B3 FeatureLab returns to 'supercharge' feature film projects from black and ethnic minority filmmakers. Backed by Film4, Binger Film Lab and the Skillset Film Skills Fund, the programme is calling for applications from filmmakers with a track record in film, TV, radio, the visual arts and new media. 

Deadline: Friday 29th January 2010.

Muckyduckmedia and ScriptOnline are looking for a short film idea from a West Midlands based writer.
Deadline: Friday 29th January 2010.




Saturday Shorts - Bristol Folk House are looking for 15 minute scripts (theatre, radio or screenplay) for script-in-hand performances in the spring. 
Deadline: Sunday 31st January 2010.



The Scottish Book Trust have launched Screen Lab 2010 - a free course on writing for the screen.
Deadline: Thursday 4th February 2010.





Eyebrow Productions are inviting writers to submit their short plays (5-10') for Write Bites - a night of new writing to take place at RADA in March.
Deadline: Friday 5th February 2010.



Theatre Writing Partnership is looking for writers based in the East Midlands for 'Crossovers' a new playwriting development scheme.
Deadline: Friday 12th February 2010.



TheatreWorks launch Dialogue - a call for scripts from writers based in the South West.  The most promising 10-20 minute script will be performed at a script-in-hand performance at the Salisbury Playhouse. 
Deadline: Wednesday 17th February 2010.


BBC Wales Drama and National Theatre Wales are looking for new Welsh Writers.  Successful applicants are invited to attend a four-day residential workshop.  Applicants must have at least one professional credit and be either born or resident in Wales.
Deadline: Wednesday 17th February 2010.



Writers Lab is a new development scheme for writers based in North West England.  Run by Bolton University in conjuction with BBC Writersroom and leading N.W independent production companies, including Red, Lime and Abbott Vision.
Deadline: Friday 19th February 2010.

Topical comedy sketch show Newsjack returned for a second six week run on BBC Radio 7 on 7 January 2010, and they're once again holding an open call for new material. Newsjack seeks to comically scrutinise the news and is a showcase for new comedy writing, so anyone can submit material.

Deadline for sketches: Monday, 12:00noon

Deadline for one-liners: Tuesday, 5:00pm

Kaos Films are inviting submissions for their annual British Feature Screenplay Competition.
Deadline: Sunday 28th February 2010.



Theatre Writing Partnership launch Ears Wide Open - an opportunity for two writers (one from the West Midlands and one from the East Midlands) to collaborate and write a series of short audio plays in response to locations in Birmingham and Nottingham.
Deadline: Sunday 28th February 2010.

The John Brabourne Big 5 Comedy Award

They are looking for a talented individual to write a 10' comedy short script that has the potential to be made into a short film.

Deadline: Sunday 28th February 2010.

The End of the Pier International Film Festival have launched a short screenplay competition.
Deadline: Monday 1st March 2010.



Blue Cat Screenwriting Competition.  This L.A based annual competition is now open for submissions.
Deadline: Monday 1st March 2010.



Scriptapalooza.  U.S based screenplay competition with good industry contacts. 
Deadline: Friday 5th March 2010.


BAFTA Rocliffe are now inviting submissions for their New Writing Forums to be held in April (Nottingham) and May (London).
Deadline: Friday 5th March 2010