You’ve written your story – congratulations! But what now? There’s a wealth of options for authors, as well as a huge array of information out there to pile through.

In this four week course, we’ll be walking you through the fundamentals of getting your writing published in a variety of different areas as well as some of the ways you can earn money from your fiction.

Week 1 – Getting Short Stories Published
Week 2 – Getting a Literary Agent
Week 3 – An Introduction to Self-Publishing
Week 4 – Making a Living as a Writer

Additional Information:

• Four Thursdays from 19 March 6:30pm - 8:00pm.

How to book:

• Book your ticket by clicking the linked opportunity.

Free creative writing workshops for Autistic writers aged 18+ in the North of England (Derby and Nottingham included).

Join Gemma Lees and Via MacNab for a series of twice-a-month creative writing workshops. Workshops take place online for 1.5 hours at a time and are 100% free. Each session, Gemma and Via will walk you through creative writing exercises to inspire you and encourage your creativity, after which you will have the option to share your writing if you would like among likeminded writers in a safe and open environment.

This group is for Autistic adults in the North of England. Led by Romany Gypsy poet Gemma Lees, we offer a warm welcome to all - with a special invitation to GRTSB (Gypsy, Roma, Traveller, Showmen & Boater) communities.

Dates & Times:

• 19 February - 7pm - 8:30pm
• 19 March - 7pm - 8:30pm
• 26 March - 7pm - 8:30pm
• 2 April - 7pm - 8:30pm
• 16 April - 7pm - 8:30pm

How to book:

• Sign up by clicking the opportunity link below.

Step into something new at Albany Theatre as they trial their brand-new stage, a bold creative space built to showcase Coventry’s local talent.

Whether it’s music, comedy, poetry, spoken word / theatre or sketch this stage is all about experimentation, energy, and connection.

The Albany Theatre is offering an electric setting where artists can share their work with a live audience. Come and be a part of the very first moments of something special !

How to get involved:

Register your interest by contacting the Albany Theatre.

Do you think you might like producing? Do you not know what producing is? What does queering producing even mean?

Raze Collective’s free Young Producers Club returns for its third year, offering a hands-on taster into producing queer events. Sessions will introduce participants to a range of topics such as what is a producer, budgeting, reaching your audience and accessibility.

What is YPC?

• Free 10-week producing taster programme
• For LGBTQIA+ creatives aged 18–25
• Focused on theatre, cabaret, live events & performance
• No experience needed
• Learn from the Raze producing team & meet other creatives
• A relaxed queer space to ask questions and explore ideas with other creatives.

We particularly encourage & will prioritise queer people of colour.

Please note this course has been designed to be delivered in person but they are open to conversation around hybrid-ness for accessibility reasons. 

The VAULT Creative Arts Playwriting Award 2026 is open for submissions.

The VCA Playwrighting Award is a scheme to support early-career writers find meaningful pathways into the performing arts.

Up to 15 shortlisted writers will receive:

• Written, developmental feedback on your script.
• Invitation to a talk by Methuen Drama on getting work published.
• Two, hour-long one-on-one mentorship sessions with our Artistic Director.
• Free, on-the-door comps to shows at The Glitch, and 15% off food and drink for a year.

They're looking for:

• Completed scripts 60 to 90 minutes in length. (This would be roughly 40 to 70 A4 pages.)
• Scripts must be a world premiere - they may have had rehearsed readings, or short runs of up to 3 shows, but have never been fully produced.
• Scripts should be written to be performed with a maximum of two actors.
• Scripts should tell a riveting, engaging story – with a strong preference for unique, untold stories from under-represented voices.

They're particularly interested in:

• Vibrant: fun, fast-paced, colourful, and full of life.
• Intimate: makes the audience feel safe and connected
• Inspiring and Impactful: empowering and encouraging audiences to realise their potential.
• Ambitious: pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved in our humble venue.
• Optimised for in-the-round: Our venue is in-the- round. We'd like to see work that fits this layout.

In exchange, the winner agrees to:

• Grant VCA the rights to produce the script for its run at The Glitch.
• Grant VCA exclusive producing rights to the script in the year following its production at The Glitch.
• Grant VCA the title of “Originating Producer”, and a 5% share of income for any future productions of the script.
• Grant VCA the right-of-first-refusal on any future productions of the script.

Further Than The Edge Productions are restarting weekly Open Level Acting Workshops for adults in two Camden venues from the second week of January.

A motivating, fun and safe space for beginners, and people with experience who want to develop existing skills.

Develop your creativity, your skills of voice, space and movement, work collaboratively on improvisation and scripts, have fun, build your confidence.

This is a great place to start or to keep up your existing skillset.

Where and When:
2 courses of workshops running weekly, 2 different Camden venues - Wednesdays and Fridays

You can book and attend either Wednesdays or Fridays, or both!

10 weeks, mornings 10am - 12.30pm

Wednesdays - 14 January to 18 March 

Fridays - 16 Jan to 27 March 

Cost and Booking:

Book at any time, you don't have to start on the first session

Both workshops are on a Pay-What-You-Like sliding scale between £10 to £30 per session. Book per session as you attend, or for the whole course of 10.

The workshops are designed for you to find some continuity in what you do, and booking in advance guarantees your space.

Go to the website and choose the relevant PayPal link.

Please note: Venues are accessible. This is not a drop-in event, you must prebook!

Fuse Box is a six-week programme of in-person professional development workshops for actors, theatre-makers and performance creatives delivered in London by Blown Fuse in partnership with guest artists including Playfight Theatre Company, playwright Kate Austen and director Jamie Wheeler.

The series supports early- and mid-career artists in developing practical performance, devising, writing and collaboration skills essential for sustainable careers in the contemporary theatre sector.

Workshops take place at Theatre Deli, Leadenhall (London) from 30 January - 6 March 2026, 7-9pm.
Participants may book individual sessions at £35 or a full programme ticket for £175 (equivalent to one workshop free). Capacity is limited to 12 artists per workshop to ensure high-quality, practice-led learning.

Fuse Box aims to ignite creativity, build confidence, and create space for meaningful artistic connection in the region.

The Programme:
Fri 30 Jan, 7-9pm: Devising Theatre
Mon 2 Feb, 7-9pm: Beyond Naturalism with Jamie Wheeler
Fri 13 Feb, 7-9pm: Making Theatre with Communities
Fri 20 Feb, 7-9pm: Introduction to Unarmed Stage Combat with Playfight Theatre Co
Fri 28 Feb, 7-9pm: Collaborating with a Writer
Fri 6 March, 7-9pm: Testimonial Playwriting with Kate Austen

Who is it for? 

Fuse Box is designed for both emerging and established theatre-makers, including:

• Actors
• Writers / Playwrights
• Directors
• Theatre Makers
• Multidisciplinary Performance Artists

If you're looking to learn something new, develop your practice, or expand your professional network, each workshop will provide opportunities to:

• Build new performance and storytelling skills
• Enhance existing techniques
• Collaborate with fellow artists in the room
• Support skills-sharing between independent artists, companies and emerging makers.
• Cultivate a connected, confident and collaborative network of theatre artists across Essex and London.

These workshops are designed for artists seeking to sharpen their craft, expand their creative toolkit and build meaningful industry connections. Whether you are an early-career theatre-maker or a more experienced artist refreshing your skills, Fuse Box offers a space to experiment, to collaborate, and to ignite new ideas.

Participants may attend the full programme or select individual workshops that best support their needs.

Write Night is a series of monthly sessions for anyone interested in writing for the stage.  

Sessions are on the first Thursday evening of every month, run by Soho Theatre’s own iconic Bombay-born, London-based Creative Associate Pooja Sivaraman (Clean Break, Theatre503, Coney) and award winning Walthamstow playwright Sonali Bhattacharyya (Bristol Old Vic, Young Vic, Chichester Festival Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, BBC)

Whether you’re a total beginner or a more experienced writer, Write Night is open to everyone! 

Each session will be organised around a theme and you can book them as standalone sessions, or you can book the whole lot! Totally up to you. 

Sessions:

Thu 8 Jan, 7pm: Adaptation
A workshop all about adapting existing materials into a new play, from novels and films to documentary and verbatim

Thu 5 Feb, 7pm: Structure & Hope
A workshop all about structure, how to get to the end of your draft, and writing from a place of hope.

Thu 5 Mar, 7pm: Writing is Rewriting
A workshop on the redrafting process and how to crack pivotal scenes.

The brand-new series of In Dialogue - the podcast for emerging artists, is now here. Whether you’re an aspiring theatre-maker, performer, writer, director or producer, then this one’s for you.   

Across four episodes, these five artists dive into topics like nailing your audition, building creative partnerships, touring as a performer and producing autobiographical work. 

If you're looking to elevate your creativity and your career, make sure to tune in – this is one series you won’t want to miss! 

First episode is now available to stream, search Scottish Youth Theatre wherever you get your podcasts or use the link in the bio to listen now. 

Quick-fire scratch nights for adventurous new writing in theatre and performance! The Scrap is an open-access night for writers, actors and directors to try out new ideas, meet one another, and showcase their work in front of an audience. Live music, good drinks, and cool new theatre.

Here we're looking for companies or ensembles to present a short work or excerpt from a piece they've been developing independently - usually about 25 minutes, max 30. These would be pieces that already have a team attached, and which have undergone development, rehearsal, and more thorough preparation. We usually programme one or two scratches per Scrap.

We're looking for work (or an excerpt) that is 20 - 30 minutes in length, that has a team already attached, and has undergone some previous workshopping (but which hasn't received a full-scale production).

We try to place no strictures on form, content, genre, team or style for our scratches: absolute minimal gatekeeping. All we ask is that you be adventurous and try something new!