RED DRAGONFLY NEW WRITING COMPETITION
Red Dragonfly Productions
INFO: Red Dragonfly Productions in association with Grist To The Mill are running a New Writing Festival and are looking for new and emerging writers from British East Asian, South Asian and South East Asian communities who are interested in contributing and sharing their contemporary and traditional stories.
They are not only looking for established writers but potential writers of any ability or experience, their in house dramaturge, Ross Ericson, will support you throughout your script development.
After they have reviewed submissions, they will be inviting up to ten successful applicants to a free one day workshop – travel will be provided* – and from that workshop three applicants will be selected to have their plays produced and performed in our festival. (*depending on applicants’ bases.)
If you want to be considered in the first instance please submit your story/idea. They will only accept submissions by email to submissions@gristtheatre.co.uk
Successful participants will be invited to the workshop by the 16th October 2016 that will take place by the end of that month, at a place and time yet to be confirmed. The performances are scheduled to take place in February of 2017. Red Dragonfly New Writing Festival is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
PRIZE: £1000 fee paid to each writer whose play is performed at the festival.
DEADLINE: October 1, 2016
reddragonflyproductions.co.uk/#!upcoming/c1z71
FOREIGN GOODS LAST FOREVER SCRIPT
Pokfulam RD Productions
INFO: Pokfulam RD Productions – based in the UK – is launching a regular new writing showcase that will feature extracts performed by a professional cast and production team from 6 work in progress / complete plays from new and established women writers of Chinese & South East Asian descent, arguably the first of its kind in the UK, it will take place at the critically-acclaimed home for new writing Theatre 503 on November 29 at 7:45pm.
There are plans in the future for this showcase to be a regular strand. There is also opportunity for the plays to be published.
They want stories that in some way address your background in all aspects such as life, society, politics, family, heritage. Form is, however free. You want to submit your play about the 1997 Hong Kong handover set in space, or a thriller about a Chinese family who go on the run in Ireland? Go for it.
Writers must be female, and of Chinese, South East Asian descent (this includes British born abroad and mixed race). There is no min/max age range.
DEADLINE: October 10, 2016
New York Theatre Workshop
INFO: New York Theatre Workshop is seeking submissions from playwrights for its 2050 Fellowship, which is named in celebration of the U.S. Census Bureau’s projection that by the year 2050, there will be no single racial or ethnic majority in the United States.
The 2050 Fellows are emerging artists who, with their unique voices, give perspective on the world in which we live; and who challenge us all to contend with this changing world.
With the 2050 Fellowship, NYTW is re-affirming their responsibility to nurture artists who reflect this multiplicity of perspectives, challenge the dominant paradigm, and give voice to those whose experiences are not often heard.
DEADLINE: October 17, 2016, at 5pm EST
nytw.org/artist-workshop/2050-fellowships/
NATIVE VOICES CALL FOR SCRIPTS
Autry Museum of the American West
INFO: Native Voices is currently accepting submissions of full-length plays (60+ pages) by Native American writers for its 2017 Playwrights Retreat and Festival of New Plays.
The retreat and festival brings artists to Los Angeles to work on 3–5 plays through a rigorous directorial and dramaturgical commitment for 8–10 days in May/June. The retreat culminates in public presentations of the plays at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles and La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. Selected playwrights receive directorial and dramaturgical support as well as an honorarium; out-of-town artists receive roundtrip airfare plus lodging in Southern California.
Full-length plays (60+ pages) will be read and evaluated. A select number of playwrights will be invited to submit formal proposals detailing their developmental goals should their play be chosen for the short list. Scripts will then be sent to a committee of nationally recognized theatre artists for further evaluation. With their help, Native Voices selects up to five plays for the Playwrights Retreat and Festival of New Plays. Playwrights will be notified in January 2017.
They only accept submissions written for the stage or theatre by Native American, Alaska Native, Hawaiian, and First Nations artists.
DEADLINE: October 21, 2016
theautry.org/events/signature-programs/native-voices/annual-call-scripts
Blackboard Plays
INFO: Blackboard Plays, which is devoted to the stories of Black Playwrights throughout the African Diaspora, is accepting short plays (30 minutes or less) concerning how HIV/AIDS affects the Black community.
Writers will be notified in November and final selections will be read on Monday, December 12, 2016, at 7:30pm.
DEADLINE: October 31, 2016
blackboardplays.com/submit/redvolution-submission/
INDIAN LANGUAGE LITERATURE FEATURE
Asymptote Journal
INFO: Asymptote is seeking submissions for its first Special Feature on Indian language literature. They seek previously unpublished English translations of Indian language work by contemporary writers who are disenfranchised and underrepresented by the hegemonies within Indian society.
The goal for this Special Feature is to honor the social and political agency of Indian language literature, and create a space for the ideas and literary talent of those writers that have been historically marginalized by India’s patriarchal, caste-based narrative. They are looking for works translated into English from any Indian language, on any topic, by any writer who resists or is excluded from this narrative due to caste, gender, sexuality, religion, or geography.
They welcome up to 15 pages of single-spaced poetry and double-spaced prose (fiction and nonfiction), and up to 20 pages of drama (one-act or excerpted). Although it is impossible for one special feature to fully represent the astonishing breadth of Indian languages, cultures, politics, and landscapes, they hope in this small way to celebrate the diversity and dissent within Indian writing.
DEADLINE: November 1, 2016