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Attention Comedy writers!
A thread of six potential opportunities for you this month:
First - as the deadline is 5pm today - is Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow's FREE online Sketch Comedy Writing Crash Course aimed at improving diversity in writers' rooms. http://gemmaarrowsmith.com/crashcourse/
A thread of six potential opportunities for you this month:
First - as the deadline is 5pm today - is Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow's FREE online Sketch Comedy Writing Crash Course aimed at improving diversity in writers' rooms. http://gemmaarrowsmith.com/crashcourse/
Next up is freelance writer/director @SimonKMatthews who is looking for short sketches to film. https://twitter.com/SimonKMatthews/status/1273633323601088512
The Short Com Sitcom Script Competition has a call-out for comedy scripts between 23-30 pages. The regular deadline is this Sunday June 21 - there is an entry fee of £40 or £10 without feedback. The final deadline is July 7 but it will cost an extra fiver. http://www.shortcom.co.uk/short-com-sitcom-script-competition/
The #TellHerVision Project is an initiative from @ERA50_50 helped by @50Comedy50, @UKScreenSkills & @HatTrickProd - to create an all women writersroom led by a professional comedy mentor - to write a 25-minute show. The selected writers will be paid £1000. https://www.screenskills.com/pitches/era5050-tellhervision-project/cdc22c5e-98fb-43dd-8ffb-e98b308db650/
Amber Crane Media have opened their unsolicited scripts submission window for UK-based TV Sitcom pilots. They are looking for family-centric, contemporary, repeatable stories - complete pilot scripts with series bibles. Deadline is June 30th. https://www.ambercrane.co.uk/submissions/tv-sitcoms
The BCG Pro Video Contest Quarter 2 submission window for comedy sketches ends this month. Competition is free to enter - and the sketch must not be longer than 2 minutes. Monthly prizes of £100 but you can only enter once each quarter. https://www.comedy.co.uk/pro/opportunities/video-contest/
And if your writing interests also extend beyond comedy, check out my #Opps4UKwriters PDF - it's a downloadable document of listings - with embedded links - to over 100 opportunities for UK writers, filmmakers, theatre makers and poets. http://bit.ly/opps4UKwriters
And another opportunity, just in - for Black/Brown/POC creatives - a £750 commission for a comedy sketch or animation to be shown at the Fringe of Colour Film Festival in August. https://twitter.com/objectivlyfunny/status/1273967617858994176
