Monthly Play Reading Club
Starts: Wednesday 14th May
A free and informal monthly meetup for anyone who loves theatre and plays.
The Scots Language Publication Grant
Deadline: Wednesday 18th June 12noon
The Scots Language Publication Grant 2025 is now open for applications. The Scots Language Publication Grant exists to support publishers to publish and promote work written in Scots.
St Andrews Playwriting Award
The St Andrews Playwriting Award is a playwriting competition to encourage and support the next generation of playwrights living in Scotland. This award provides a key opportunity for an emerging playwright’s career development.
An Introduction to Playwriting
In this online course you'll learn the key skills and principles involved in writing a play and generate ideas for your own work.
The course is taught by a leading professional playwright and presented in association with Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland; the only arts organisation in the UK exclusively dedicated to the artistic development of writers for live performance.
Case Study Sessions
Case Study Sessions bring playwrights into conversation with leading theatre-makers to explore the craft of writing, collaboration, and industry navigation. Each session offers insight into creative practice through real-world examples, providing a space for reflection, learning, and discussion.
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!
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.
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.