The Great Accountability Rodeo
The Great Accountability Rodeo is three threads of work: Writing Workshops, Creative Questions Sessions and Writing Sprints.
Take the reins with your writing and kick start your 2025!
Trajectories
Deadline: 6pm Tuesday 28th January 2025
Trajectories is a fully supported, early-career artist development programme that will be delivered through a combination of in-person and online workshops, masterclasses and rehearsals.
Writing through the Body, Moving through Language
Dates: 11am-5pm, 8th & 9th February 2025
Join Kate Hilder and Jude Claybourne for this playful interdisciplinary workshop in Edinburgh, where writing, movement and vocal expression come together in surprising and innovative ways.
Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship
Deadline: 5pm Monday 17th February 2025
The Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship is an opportunity for a mid-career writer to spend a year dedicated to producing their own new writing, gaining support and inspiration from the host organisation.
THE ART OF ORiGiNALiTY - CREATiVE CONSULTATiONS
Ongoing | In-Person & Online
TAOO CREATiVE CONSULTATiONS enable you to discuss your creative work, project(s) and process in-depth with an expert, who can help equip you with strategies and input to enable you to achieve your creative goals.
Oxford/42 New Writing Prize: Open for Submissions
Deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
The Oxford/42 New Writing Prize is a new multi-disciplinary storytelling competition for anyone aged 18 or over living, working or studying in the UK.
THE ART OF ORiGiNALiTY - REFiNE
Ongoing - In-Person & Online
REFiNE writing workshops are designed to support writers with their projects-in-development. If you’d like expert input to help you advance and enhance your projects, help you navigate creative challenges, provide strategies that can help you unblock and unlock creative potential in yourself and your project(s), or simply a community of supportive writers to share your process with, then REFiNE is for you.
THE ART OF ORiGiNALiTY - CREATE
Ongoing - In-Person & Online
CREATE writing workshops are designed to stimulate, advance and enhance your writing skills, creative process and projects. If you’re looking to boost your creativity and connect with other writers CREATE is the perfect place to start.
The Illustrated Freelancer's Guide
The Illustrated Freelancer’s Guide is a practical resource for the increasing number of artists, makers, writers and other creatives working freelance in Scotland today.
Creative Scotland: Open Fund for Individuals
Deadline: Ongoing
The Open Fund for Individuals is one of Creative Scotland’s key funding programmes, supporting the wide range of activity initiated by artists, writers, producers and other creative practitioners in Scotland.
Dewar Arts Awards
Deadline: Ongoing
The Dewar Arts Award fund exceptional young artists in any discipline who do not have the financial means to achieve their full potential. Applicants must be under the age of 30 and living or working in Scotland.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint Script Reading Service
Status: CLOSED
Playwrights' Studio Scotland runs this service for A Play, A Pie and A Pint. Anyone can send a play to be considered for production at A Play, A Pie and A Pint. The submissions window is open for three months at a time.
National Script Reading Service
Status: Ongoing
Our free script reading service provides an opportunity for Scotland's writers to receive valuable script feedback from theatre professionals.
Peggy Ramsay Foundation
Deadline: Ongoing
The Peggy Ramsay Foundation give money to theatre writers in order to afford them the time and the space to write. You can be a writer who's only had one play professionally produced, a writer who's had dozens of successes or a writer who's somewhere in between - if you're struggling to pay the bills, then they can help.
London Playwrights’ Blog
The London Playwrights’ Blog began in 2013 as a resource for emerging playwrights. Aiming to bring together the latest opportunities, best resources, and good advice in one place.
Playwriting (MSc)
The MSc Playwriting programme at the University of Edinburgh is led by award-winning playwright Nicola McCartney (Lifeboat, Heritage, Standing Wave) and focuses on the craft of writing for performance, as well as on how a script would play out in real space and time in front of an audience.
MA in Classical and Contemporary Text
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Masters degree in Classical and Contemporary Text is an exciting, intensive full year course for experienced actors and directors looking to take their practical skills to the next level.
James Tait Black Prize for Drama
The University of Edinburgh in association with Playwrights' Studio, Scotland and the Traverse Theatre are proud to present the James Tait Black Prize for Drama.