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Lecturer in Creative Writing & Scriptwriting
The University Of Derby
£27,466 to £41,545 per annum

The University of Derby seeks a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Scriptwriting. The lecturer will teach, as well as undertake curriculum development and research in relation to programmes which take a reflexive theory/practice approach. Applications from those with expertise in media theory, media history, radio studies, on-line journalism, scriptwriting, writing and new technologies or creative writing workshops, will be particularly welcome.

For further details and to apply on line please visit the campaign site at: www.derby.ac.uk/facultyjobs

Applications can only be accepted with a completed application form.
Deadline for applications: 22 June 2008

The Gunslinger Theatre Co. will be developing a series of 5-10 minute short, self contained plays over the coming months. Writers who live in Edinburgh and would be interested in working with the company on developing these pieces are invited to come to the performance below and get a flavour of their work.

“A Fish Rots From The Head” by Kathleen Marshall, on 28 June (7.30pm) at the Forest Studio (upstairs), 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh. Free admission
For more information visit: www.gunslingertheatre.co.uk

International Playwriting Festival 2008

Now in its 23rd year, the International Playwriting Festival is currently accepting entries for 2008. Plays from all over the world are received for the competition and judged by a panel of distinguished theatre practitioners. The best selected plays will then be showcased at the Festival weekend on 22 & 23 November.

The IPF also exchanges productions with International partners Extra Candoni of Italy and Theatro Ena of Cyprus.

CLOSING DATE: 30 June 2008

For further information and to download an application form please visit: www.warehousetheatre.co.uk

New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest

The New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest is accepting scripts through
June 30, 2008 for new works that:

1) Enhance self-realization
2) Support peace and social justice
3) Foster new understanding of minority issues that focus on racial, ethnic and gender discrimination both in the United States and abroad
4) Empower youth to build healthy inner foundations
5) Educate to gain further insight into healthy social/emotional living
6) Shed new light on religious, spiritual, and cultural differences and issues
7) Build respect for cultural expression and identity in a world that is experiencing rapid globalization
8) Explore the widening gap between the values this country was founded on and the values we present to the world today

For Guidelines and Application Form: www.PlaywritingContest.cjb.net

North West Writing Competition

The purpose of the Northwest Writing Competition is to encourage anyone who would like to write to have a go. Winning short plays and stories will be performed/read at the Wyre Writing and Performance Festival in September at Thornton Little Theatre. Entry is free and open to all writers in the North West.

For entry form and futher details call 01253858529 or visit the website:
www.visitwyre.co.uk/site/events/writing-and-performance-festival-2008

Deadline for submissions: 4 July 2008

Sir Peter Ustinov
Television Scriptwriting Award
The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation awards the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award each year. The competition is designed to motivate non-American novice writers under the age of 30, and offer them the recognition and encouragement that might lead to a successful career in television scriptwriting.

Entrants are asked to create a completed half-hour to one-hour English-language television drama script for a family audience. The Winner receives $2,500 and an invitation to the International Emmy Awards Gala in November.

The deadline for submissions is July 15th.
For more information, or to download an application please see the website:

http://www.iemmys.tv/foundation.aspx

Zeitgeist Theatre Grand Slam
London, UK
21 July 2008

Zeitgeist Theatre is seeking short, sharp and witty theatre plays for a popular and unique event in South London. Scripts must not be more than eight minutes long, require no more than five actors and have very basic lighting/sound/set requirements.

One group of actors perform each play then the audience votes for their favourite. The emphasis is on originality, variety and entertainment. Apart from a lot of fun, this is an excellent way to try out ideas on an audience before developing further.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL writers must be based in or around London and able to attend late-August. DEADLINE: 21st July 2008

Please send script or scripts with a short writer biog to info@zeitgeisttheatre.com

iceandfire

‘Protect the Human’
Playwriting Competition 2008

iceandfire create compelling theatre exploring stories of displacement and conflict. They are interested in imaginative and excellent theatre, but are not seeking scripts that are didactic, preaching or dogmatic.

For more information go to www.iceandfire.co.uk/protectthehuman; email protectthehuman@iceandfire.co.uk; call 0207 377 5299 or write to:
Protect the Human Playwriting Competition
iceandfire
Toynbee Hall
28 Commercial Street
London, E1 6LS

Window for submissions: July 28th-August 1st 2008

New PlayDay for Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine Theatre Company is inviting new scripts for its latest PlayDay
project, which will see two plays chosen for performance in front of a live
audience in the autumn. Plays should be 30 minutes in length and capable of performance with a cast of four. Only previously unperformed work should be sent.

Send scripts to or obtain more details from:
Peter Mortimer, Cloud Nine
5 Marden Terrace, Cullercoats
North Shields, NE30 4PD
Tel: 0191 2531901

Deadline for submissions: 31 Jul 2008

Short Plays about Elvis Wanted

Everyone has a story...if your's is for two actors, maximum 10 minutes long and about Elvis, then World Market in South Cumbria wants to read it! Chosen plays will be performed in pub venues and arts venues in the South Cumbria area.

For guidelines and an entry form e-mail John Hall, Project Co-ordinator at:
pubscripts2008@aol.com or visit www.wordmarket.org.uk

Entry fee: £4.50/£5.00 for non-members
Submission deadline: 31 July 2008

New Writers Wanted at Artificial Light

Artificial Light requires new short sketches/plays for possible entry into the Emergency Festival at the Greenroom, Manchester, Sept 2008.

Scripts should meet the following criteria:
Between 10 - 30 mins long
Interpreted or written specifically for a physical theatre style
Small, young cast
Unpaid/unfunded
Minimum props/scenery

For more information contact Mary G Hooton at: artificiallightmanchester@hotmail.com

Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2008

every1sacritic
BBC Writer's Room
Script Competion

Producers Declan Hill and Simon Wright have just won a fringe award, for Best Encouragers of Talent, for their work developing sitcom scripts. They're now working with the Arts Theatre in the West End to promote new work and are actively looking for new scripts.

What they want to see: Sitcom scripts or character-based comedy of no more than fifteen minutes long that are self-contained, and whose premise, situation,and characters will be immediately grasped by an audience.

The deadline for scripts is August 15th.

To find out more and apply visit the website:

http://every1sacritic.com/Home.htmlacritic website

Celebrating ten successful years as a presence in British Theatre, the Award is dedicated to providing inspiration and validation for playwrights of Caribbean or African descent who are resident in the UK.

The Award of £5000 is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent,resident in the UK, for the best new stage play in English, which need not have been produced. Each entrant may submit only one play. (Television, radio and film scripts will not be considered.)

Applicants for the 2008 Award should send two copies of their play (plus a Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope for return of scripts), accompanied by a CV which includes the writer's Caribbean or African connection and a brief history of the play, to:

The Alfred Fagon Award
The Royal Court Theatre
Sloane Square
London SW1W 8AS.

The deadline is 31st August 2008.

For more information about the award visit the website:
www.alfredfagonaward.co.uk/site

Female Playwrights With New Scripts Wanted

Velvet Ensemble aims to facilitate the work of women playwrights, directors, actors, stage managers, set, costume, lighting and sound designers. They are interested in hearing from female playwrights with new scripts.

Deadline for submissions: Ongoing
For more information please e-mail V at:
velvetensemble@yahoo.co.uk

Robert McLellan Award for Playwriting

This annual and unique play competition was established in 2007 to commemmorate the centenary of Robert McLellan's birth in celebration of his enormous contribution to Scottish Theatre. The prize for this competition is £1000, a 2 day development workshop with a professional director and actors, leading to a rehearsed reading on the Isle of Arran at the Arran Arts Festival , November 2008 and a full scale production of the play at Oran Mor, Glasgow in March 2009.

The competition asks for plays which have not been performed professionally as yet, are 50 minutes duration, are written for a maximum of 3 characters and are written in any living Scots dialect - urban or rural.

For more information and online entry go to: www.arranartsfestival.co.uk following the links to Play Competition or contact Heather Gough, Chairperson, Arran Theatre and Arts Trust at gough.carlo@virgin.net

Deadline for entries will be 30th September.

	Studio News Tasting... Fuse Script Reading Service Translation Resource Read more...
	Opportunities Lecturer in Creative Writing and Scriptwriting Gunslinger Theatre Company International Playwriting Festival 2008 New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest North West Writing Competition Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award Zeitgeist Theatre Grand Slam iceandfire Playwrighting Competition New PlayDay for Cloud Nine Short Plays about Elvis Wanted New Writers Wanted at Artificial Light every1sacritic The Alfred Fagon Award 2008 Female Playwrights with New Scripts Wanted Robert McLellan Award for Playwriting Read more...
	Events Scripting the Future? Getting To Where You Want To Be Dealing With Writing Weekend Workshops By the Sea Handle With Care II Writing Theatre for Younger Audiences MA Writing for Performance Read more...
	Quick Links Still and Signs of Life by Cormac Quinn Read more..

	Studio News
		Tasting...New Talent Thursday 19th - Saturday 21st June, 2008 Gilmorehill G12 7.00pm Tickets £5
	Sample the talent of Scotland's emerging writers and actors as they explore and develop new plays. Presented by Playwrights' Studio and Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Gilmorehill: we have three new pieces; so savour one or try them all. This is a development showing of plays from writers at an early stage in their career. The actors are all graduating students from the RSAMD. There will be a short, informal discussion event after each play looking at how theatre makers and their works progress. Thursday 19th June One Gun by Ian Low Dir: Bill Wright Friday 20th June Long Drop by Selma Dimitrijevic Dir: Lorne Campbell Saturday 21st June The Last Respect and Forgetting Sebastian by Kenny McKenna Dir: Daljinder Singh For more information or to book tickets please call the gilmorehill box office on 0141 330 5522 or contact boxoffice@gilmorehillg12.co.uk _______----___________ Fuse Fuse is a unique Scotland wide initiative that puts new plays in front of the artistic directors at the country's top theatre venues. For more information on how to submit a play to Fuse please visit our website at: www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk/fuse.html Translation Resource Details are available on our website for our Translation Resource. This fund is available for producing theatre companies outside the UK to translate plays from Scotland’s playwrights specifically for a public event; production or reading. It will be for a mechanical/literary translation into another language when the play has not previously been translated into that language. Deadlines for application are: 15 September 2008 15 December 2008 www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk
	Opportunities
	Lecturer in Creative Writing & Scriptwriting The University Of Derby £27,466 to £41,545 per annum The University of Derby seeks a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Scriptwriting. The lecturer will teach, as well as undertake curriculum development and research in relation to programmes which take a reflexive theory/practice approach. Applications from those with expertise in media theory, media history, radio studies, on-line journalism, scriptwriting, writing and new technologies or creative writing workshops, will be particularly welcome. For further details and to apply on line please visit the campaign site at: www.derby.ac.uk/facultyjobs Applications can only be accepted with a completed application form. Deadline for applications: 22 June 2008 The Gunslinger Theatre Co. will be developing a series of 5-10 minute short, self contained plays over the coming months. Writers who live in Edinburgh and would be interested in working with the company on developing these pieces are invited to come to the performance below and get a flavour of their work. “A Fish Rots From The Head” by Kathleen Marshall, on 28 June (7.30pm) at the Forest Studio (upstairs), 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh. Free admission For more information visit: www.gunslingertheatre.co.uk International Playwriting Festival 2008 Now in its 23rd year, the International Playwriting Festival is currently accepting entries for 2008. Plays from all over the world are received for the competition and judged by a panel of distinguished theatre practitioners. The best selected plays will then be showcased at the Festival weekend on 22 & 23 November. The IPF also exchanges productions with International partners Extra Candoni of Italy and Theatro Ena of Cyprus. CLOSING DATE: 30 June 2008 For further information and to download an application form please visit: www.warehousetheatre.co.uk New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest The New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest is accepting scripts through June 30, 2008 for new works that: 1) Enhance self-realization 2) Support peace and social justice 3) Foster new understanding of minority issues that focus on racial, ethnic and gender discrimination both in the United States and abroad 4) Empower youth to build healthy inner foundations 5) Educate to gain further insight into healthy social/emotional living 6) Shed new light on religious, spiritual, and cultural differences and issues 7) Build respect for cultural expression and identity in a world that is experiencing rapid globalization 8) Explore the widening gap between the values this country was founded on and the values we present to the world today For Guidelines and Application Form: www.PlaywritingContest.cjb.net North West Writing Competition The purpose of the Northwest Writing Competition is to encourage anyone who would like to write to have a go. Winning short plays and stories will be performed/read at the Wyre Writing and Performance Festival in September at Thornton Little Theatre. Entry is free and open to all writers in the North West. For entry form and futher details call 01253858529 or visit the website: www.visitwyre.co.uk/site/events/writing-and-performance-festival-2008 Deadline for submissions: 4 July 2008 Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation awards the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award each year. The competition is designed to motivate non-American novice writers under the age of 30, and offer them the recognition and encouragement that might lead to a successful career in television scriptwriting. Entrants are asked to create a completed half-hour to one-hour English-language television drama script for a family audience. The Winner receives $2,500 and an invitation to the International Emmy Awards Gala in November. The deadline for submissions is July 15th. For more information, or to download an application please see the website: http://www.iemmys.tv/foundation.aspx Zeitgeist Theatre Grand Slam London, UK 21 July 2008 Zeitgeist Theatre is seeking short, sharp and witty theatre plays for a popular and unique event in South London. Scripts must not be more than eight minutes long, require no more than five actors and have very basic lighting/sound/set requirements. One group of actors perform each play then the audience votes for their favourite. The emphasis is on originality, variety and entertainment. Apart from a lot of fun, this is an excellent way to try out ideas on an audience before developing further. PLEASE NOTE: ALL writers must be based in or around London and able to attend late-August. DEADLINE: 21st July 2008 Please send script or scripts with a short writer biog to info@zeitgeisttheatre.com iceandfire ‘Protect the Human’ Playwriting Competition 2008 iceandfire create compelling theatre exploring stories of displacement and conflict. They are interested in imaginative and excellent theatre, but are not seeking scripts that are didactic, preaching or dogmatic. For more information go to www.iceandfire.co.uk/protectthehuman; email protectthehuman@iceandfire.co.uk; call 0207 377 5299 or write to: Protect the Human Playwriting Competition iceandfire Toynbee Hall 28 Commercial Street London, E1 6LS Window for submissions: July 28th-August 1st 2008 New PlayDay for Cloud Nine Cloud Nine Theatre Company is inviting new scripts for its latest PlayDay project, which will see two plays chosen for performance in front of a live audience in the autumn. Plays should be 30 minutes in length and capable of performance with a cast of four. Only previously unperformed work should be sent. Send scripts to or obtain more details from: Peter Mortimer, Cloud Nine 5 Marden Terrace, Cullercoats North Shields, NE30 4PD Tel: 0191 2531901 Deadline for submissions: 31 Jul 2008 Short Plays about Elvis Wanted Everyone has a story...if your's is for two actors, maximum 10 minutes long and about Elvis, then World Market in South Cumbria wants to read it! Chosen plays will be performed in pub venues and arts venues in the South Cumbria area. For guidelines and an entry form e-mail John Hall, Project Co-ordinator at: pubscripts2008@aol.com or visit www.wordmarket.org.uk Entry fee: £4.50/£5.00 for non-members Submission deadline: 31 July 2008 New Writers Wanted at Artificial Light Artificial Light requires new short sketches/plays for possible entry into the Emergency Festival at the Greenroom, Manchester, Sept 2008. Scripts should meet the following criteria: Between 10 - 30 mins long Interpreted or written specifically for a physical theatre style Small, young cast Unpaid/unfunded Minimum props/scenery For more information contact Mary G Hooton at: artificiallightmanchester@hotmail.com Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2008 every1sacritic BBC Writer's Room Script Competion Producers Declan Hill and Simon Wright have just won a fringe award, for Best Encouragers of Talent, for their work developing sitcom scripts. They're now working with the Arts Theatre in the West End to promote new work and are actively looking for new scripts. What they want to see: Sitcom scripts or character-based comedy of no more than fifteen minutes long that are self-contained, and whose premise, situation,and characters will be immediately grasped by an audience. The deadline for scripts is August 15th. To find out more and apply visit the website: http://every1sacritic.com/Home.htmlacritic website Celebrating ten successful years as a presence in British Theatre, the Award is dedicated to providing inspiration and validation for playwrights of Caribbean or African descent who are resident in the UK. The Award of £5000 is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent,resident in the UK, for the best new stage play in English, which need not have been produced. Each entrant may submit only one play. (Television, radio and film scripts will not be considered.) Applicants for the 2008 Award should send two copies of their play (plus a Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope for return of scripts), accompanied by a CV which includes the writer's Caribbean or African connection and a brief history of the play, to: The Alfred Fagon Award The Royal Court Theatre Sloane Square London SW1W 8AS. The deadline is 31st August 2008. For more information about the award visit the website: www.alfredfagonaward.co.uk/site Female Playwrights With New Scripts Wanted Velvet Ensemble aims to facilitate the work of women playwrights, directors, actors, stage managers, set, costume, lighting and sound designers. They are interested in hearing from female playwrights with new scripts. Deadline for submissions: Ongoing For more information please e-mail V at: velvetensemble@yahoo.co.uk Robert McLellan Award for Playwriting This annual and unique play competition was established in 2007 to commemmorate the centenary of Robert McLellan's birth in celebration of his enormous contribution to Scottish Theatre. The prize for this competition is £1000, a 2 day development workshop with a professional director and actors, leading to a rehearsed reading on the Isle of Arran at the Arran Arts Festival , November 2008 and a full scale production of the play at Oran Mor, Glasgow in March 2009. The competition asks for plays which have not been performed professionally as yet, are 50 minutes duration, are written for a maximum of 3 characters and are written in any living Scots dialect - urban or rural. For more information and online entry go to: www.arranartsfestival.co.uk following the links to Play Competition or contact Heather Gough, Chairperson, Arran Theatre and Arts Trust at gough.carlo@virgin.net Deadline for entries will be 30th September.
	Events
	Scripting the Future? Birmingham Rep (St. Paul's Suite) Wednesday 18 June 2008 7:30pm Free event The Writers' Guild of Great Britain invites you to a meeting to discuss the future of new writing in the West Midlands following the Arts Council’s decision to cut funding to Script, the agency for developing writers in the region. Please RSVP as soon as possible to WMidWritersGuild@aol.com. For further information about the Writers' Guild, see www.writersguild.org.uk Getting To Where You Want To Be Facilitator: : Joanne Reardon 21 June 2008/2.00-4.30pm Venue: Priestley Room, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Cost: £20 Script Yorkshire Members/£35 Non-Members A Script Yorkshire professional development workshop for dramatists in association with literaturetraining. This workshop is aimed at writers with some experience and provides a structured opportunity for you to explore where you want to get to professionally and start planning your next steps Places are limited and must be booked in advance. To book your place email: members@scriptyorkshire.co.uk Dealing With Writing Weekend Workshops By the Sea Human Behaviour in Action Noël Greig & Philip Osment June 28th/29th Course fee: £200 A play allows us to observe human beings 'in action'. This weekend course will help you create your characters, develop the worlds they inhabit and set them off on their journeys: human behaviour in action. Plays Personal, plays political. Noel Greig and Philip Osment Saturday October 25th/26 Tuition fee £175 A great play can connect our personal lives, thoughts and experiences to the wider world: the local and particular becomes the universal, the personal becomes political. For bookings and enquiries contact: Liz Turner Telephone: 01304 367625 e.mail: info@dealingwithwriting.com www.dealingwithwriting.com Handle With Care II London, UK 17 July 2008 Soho Theatre presents this follow up open access workshop led by Jennifer Farmer. Handle With Care II will focus specifically on the challenges of creating a dramatic piece from the stories and experiences of vulnerable groups. The session will offer practical ways in which to address some of the questions that writers face when creating such work; whose story is being told and why; is it being truthful; how to artistically engage with personal material; how to write for vulnerable groups AND theatre audiences. For further information on forthcoming Open Access Workshops and the workshop leaders please visit the Soho Theatre website www.sohotheatre.com Writing Theatre for Younger Audiences: A European Perspective Totleigh Barton Arvon Centre, Sheepwash, Devon Mon 24 – Sat 29 November 2008 Special price : £239/£299 This course will have an international flavour and draw on best European practice by seeking to uncover what is at the heart of the best work, look for its roots and trace the soul journey of the Child at its centre. The focus will be on developing and deepening your own writing practice through workshops, one-to-one tutorials, readings, work ‘on the floor’ and private writing time. Please note that there are just 16 places available on this course; applications should be made as soon as possible. For further details or to apply for the course please email Rina Vergano at aldenvergano@clara.netInclude your full name and address, email and telephone numbers, how you heard about the course, and put “WTYA Arvon course” in the subject box. MA Writing for Performance University of Huddersfield Bursary A £2000 bursary will be awarded for this course. The MA Writing for Performance is a one calendar year intensive course for people who want to develop their writing practice for live theatre/performance. The £2000 bursary is awarded each year. For more details about the course please contact course leader Tim Moss at t.moss@hud.ac.uk or 01484 478405, or visit the website at www.hud.ac.uk/mh/downloads/ma/ma_writing_theatre.pdf
	Quick Links Still and Signs of Life by Cormac Quinn Ramshorn Theatre June 25-27th 8pm Two scripts by former Playwrights' Studio, Scotland mentee, Cormac Quinn, will be performed at the Ramshorn Theatre in June. For more information call the Ramshorn Box office at 0141 548 2558 or e-mail:collinsgallery@strath.ac.uk

E-BULLETIN: June 2008