Opportunities

Watson's Wind Up
Open-door sketch show for BBC Radio Scotland is looking for comedy writers

AIB Seeds 4
Deadline: 2 November 2009
Structured development initiative in Ireland for emerging theatre practitioners seeks playwrights

Scotland Writes
Deadline: 2 November 2009
BBC Scotland are looking for new Scottish voices for television drama.

Nation Competition
Deadline: 13 November 2009
Guardian competition for 11-17 year olds to adapt a scene from a Terry Pratchett novel.

Bare Bones
Deadline: 14 November 2009
A showcase for new short plays at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington

BigVillage Fringe Show Competition
Deadline: 27 November 09
BigVillage Theatre Co. are looking for an original play to take to Edinburgh in 2010

Tony Doyle Bursary
Deadline: 4 December 2009
£2,000 award and residential seminar for Irish writers

STAGE International Script Competition
Deadline: 15 December 2009
$10,000 prize for a play about science and/or technology

Ignite 2009
Deadline: 10 January 2010
Stage and radio playwriting competition for writers aged 16-26 who live in Scotland.

The Westminster Prize
Deadline: 11 January 2010
Playwriting competition open to those who live, work, or study in the London borough of Westminster

Muslim Writers Awards
Screenplays from Muslim writers are now sought for the 2010 awards.

Scottish Arts Council
The Scottish Arts Council offer bursaries to published playwrights based in Scotland

UK Film Council
Apply for money from the UK Film Council Development Fund

BBC Film Network
Submit your short to the Film Network