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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 1:03pm
Homegrown (Luton | England)

Homegrown: Luton's New Writing Festival

Calling all writers! Aspiring Playwright? Bit of a wordsmith? We’re looking for local writers, regardless of age or experience to submit their work. If selected, the pieces will be allocated a director, and will be performed by local actors in front of a live audience on Friday 5th July 2024 at Luton Library Theatre. This festival’s theme is PRIDE. We’re looking for 10-minute plays inspired by this theme. Go wild! Think outside the box.
Fee: 
No fee
Restrictions: 
Homegrown is open to all, but we are particularly keen to hear from Luton voices and writers from or based in the Home Counties.
Submission Method: 
Email
Deadline: 
5 / 31 / 2024

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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 12:40pm
Exhume Literary Journal

Exhume Fall 2024 Submissions

Submissions are now open for our fall issue. We strive to publish visual art, poetry, prose, and drama in order to help writers who discuss queerness and trauma find a home for their works. Though we especially seek submissions that discuss these topics, we accept good writing across the board. Submit up to 3,500 words.
Fee: 
No fee
Restrictions: 
Open to all playwrights
Submission Method: 
Email
Deadline: 
6 / 30 / 2024

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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 12:04pm
Exist Otherwise Literary Journal

Exist Otherwise

We accept any kind of written work: poetry, prose, essays, fiction, creative non-fiction, scripts, hybrid, experimental writing, whatever. The amount of work you may submit each month is determined by length. Maximum word count is 1000. 500 Words or Less: You may submit up to three (3) per month. 500-1000 Words: You may submit up to one (1) per month. Our interests include identity, gender, trauma and recovery, creative expression, and intuition and dreams. Each issue of Exist Otherwise will have a theme and a prompt. Submissions that respond to a theme or prompt will be given some priority, but we will consider all submissions. We pay $15 per published work.
Fee: 
No fee
Restrictions: 
Open to all writers
Submission Method: 
Email
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Thu, 19/12/2019 - 10:33am

Empowering Playwrights one Pixel at a Time: How Online Resources Can Fuel Your Playwriting Interests

Rachael Carnes

What if you want to write a play? Where to start? And what if you have a few plays? What to do with them? And what if you want to learn more skills as a writer? Where to go next? If you’re here, you probably already have some ideas. But member to member, I’ll offer some tips and tricks, in what has become a daily habit: Read, Write, Send and Find. Let’s go!

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Sun, 13/10/2019 - 11:37am

Exploring Character Through Environment

Courtney Meaker

Environment dictates more than we give it credit for in our writing. Give environment its due and follow your impulses to explore all facets of your character. Hopefully, the result will be characters that feel molded from the earth they grew up in. In this article, readers are taken through a three-part exercise to explore how environment dictates character and character dictates environment. 

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Sat, 14/09/2019 - 12:41pm

The Playwright & Biography

Tylie Shider

Arguably, some of the most successful American plays are gripped by biography. So, how do we shape elements of biography into dramatic works?

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