Competitions, broadcaster schemes, labs and festivals in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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BBC Writers holds this free one-hour webinar, from 1 to 2 p.m. UK time, to explain to students nearing the end of a screenwriting degree what the department does and how TV drama works.
closes in 6 days
Screen Ireland's development loan lets an Irish writer who already has a produced feature or TV drama credit spend time on a new film script with an approved script editor.
closes in 10 days
Growing out of the 2026 BBC Comedy Festival in Liverpool, this scheme wants a returning half-hour sitcom from writers who come from or live in the Liverpool City Region.
closes in 20 days
Writers turning a novel, a podcast or a true family story into a TV series, single drama or play can spend Monday to Saturday at Arvon's Shropshire house with Hannah Griffiths, who runs…
starts in 20 days
Rather than taking scripts all year, the BBC reads unsolicited work in one annual window and uses it to find writers to develop, not projects to make.
closes in 42 days
London's Raindance festival judges unproduced scripts in four categories: feature, short, TV comedy and TV drama.
closes in 48 days
Script editor Kate Leys and screenwriter Olivia Hetreed, who first collaborated on the film Girl with a Pearl Earring, lead a residential week for writers of feature films and single dramas.
starts in 104 days
A six-day course at the NFTS campus outside London for writers who want film or TV drama commissions.
starts in 106 days
Ticket holders for the 2027 London Screenwriters' Festival who have a finished script can apply for one of five small mentoring labs held over Zoom.
closes in 139 days
Instead of a full screenplay, this contest asks for the whole story told in a prose summary of up to 750 words plus ten pages of script, and every entrant gets written notes on the summary.
closes in 162 days
Three days of talks, pitching and networking for screenwriters at Regent's University in central London, with every session also streamed online.
starts in 164 days
Screenwriter and script consultant Hannah Robinson, who has worked with Lenny Henry and Russell T Davies, teaches two days in Leeds on writing comedy drama: why audiences laugh, comic tone…
closes in 211 days