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Below is a list of all current Contests. Click on the EDIT ENTRY link to edit the details for the contest.
| CONTEST | DEADLINE | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sewanee Writers’ Conference | July 30, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Theatre Three One-Act Play Festival | July 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Jewish Ensemble Theatre Festival of New Plays | July 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop in Los Angeles | July 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| PEN Center USA Literary Awards | August 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop | August 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Rhinebeck Writers Retreat Summer Residencies | August 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| National Black Theatre Festival | August 2, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Children’s Theatre Foundation Aurand Harris Fellowship | August 2, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Public Programs/Humanities Projects in Media | August 14, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| David C. Horn Prize | August 15, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Aurora Theatre Company: Global Age Project | August 15, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| University of Central Missouri National Playwriting Competition | August 21, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Edinburgh Fringe Festival | August 28, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward Drama | August 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| The Ten Minute Musicals Project | August 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Kumu Kahua Theatre/UHM Department of Theatre & Dance Playwriting Contest | August 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Search for New Musicals (New Musicals Inc.) | August 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Women’s Project Playwrights Lab | August 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Scholastic Art & Writing Awards | September 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Stanley Drama Award | September 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Theatre Oxford Ten-Minute Play Contest | September 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Ashland New Plays Festival | September 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships | September 13, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Harold Morton Landon Translation Award | September 15, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Alfred Hodder Fellowship Princeton University | September 15, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Composition Award | September 15, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | September 16, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Princeton Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts | September 20, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights | September 30, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Charles M. Getchell Award, SETC | September 30, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting Contest | September 30, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| George Bennett Fellowship | September 30, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Playfest – Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays | October 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Mississippi Theatre Association Playwriting Competition | October 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Weathervane Playhouse 8×10 TheatreFest | October 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Jackie White Memorial National Children’s Playwriting Contest | October 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Sundance Theatre Lab – Women Write Now | October 4, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation | October 7, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Actors Theatre of Louisville New Voices Young Playwrights Festival | October 10, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Mid-Atlantic Song Contest | October 15, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Live & In Color | October 15, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Eugene O’Neill National Musical Theater Conference | October 18, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Theatre Bay Area Grant Programs – Ca$h Workshops | October 25, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| U.S. Dept. of State Fulbright U.S. Student Program at the Institute of International Education | October 26, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| The Reva Shiner Full-Length Play Competition | October 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Premiere Stages Play Festival | November 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater | November 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Francesca Primus Prize | November 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Play Competition | November 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award | November 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Kitchen Dog Theatre (KDT) New Works Festival | November 9, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Boomerang Theatre Company | November 15, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| North Carolina New Play Project (NCNPP) | November 15, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Last Frontier Theatre Conference | November 15, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| SongDoor International Songwriting Competition | November 15, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Jerome Playwright-in-Residence Fellowships | November 15, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Boston Theater Marathon | November 29, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Playwrights’ Center Grant Programs; ; Jerome Playwright-in-Residence Fellowships | November 30, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Playwriting Residency | November 30, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play | December 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Ten-Minute Play Festival | December 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition | December 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| The KCACTF Ten-Minute Play Award | December 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| The Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award | December 1, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Theatre Conspiracy | December 6, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| New Musical Initiative | December 9, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| The Miranda Family ‘Voces Latinx’ National Playwriting Competition | December 13, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Wichita Sate University New Play competition | December 13, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| The Great American Song Contest | December 13, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Playwrights’ Center McKnight Advancement Grants | December 13, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| George R. Kernodle Playwriting Contest | December 16, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) | December 20, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship | December 23, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Page 73 Productions | December 23, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Massachusetts Cultural Council | December 23, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Samuel French Inc, Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival | December 24, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| American Antiquarian Society Fellowships | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| National Student Playwriting Award | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Ungar German Translation Award | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Goshen College Peace Playwriting Contest | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| The David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| The National Student Playwriting Award | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| The Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| The Rosa Parks Playwriting Award | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Theatre in the Raw Play Writing Contest | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| New Works of Merit | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| John Lennon Songwriting Contest | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| Pipeline Awards for New Musical Theatre | December 31, 2024 | EDIT | X |
| VSA Arts Playwright Discovery Program | January 10, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| NJ Young Playwrights Festival and Contest | January 15, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency (formerly the Robert Chesley Award) | January 18, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Summerfield G. Roberts Award | January 31, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| San Francisco Fringe Festival (SFFF) | January 31, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| American Songwriting Awards | January 31, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Vermont Playwrights Award | February 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Jane Chambers Playwriting Award | February 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Harold & Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award | February 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| College of Charleston (CofC) Todd McNerney National Playwriting Contest | February 15, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Inspirato Festival | February 28, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Pataphysics | February 28, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Anna Zornio Memorial Children’s Theatre Playwriting Award | March 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award | March 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Old Opera House Theatre Company New Voice Play Festival | March 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| National Latino Playwriting Award | March 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Bite-Sized Broadway | March 3, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Princess Grace Foundation USA Playwriting Fellowship | March 14, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Arts & Letters Prize in Drama | March 31, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab | March 31, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Creative Capital Grants | April 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Babes With Blades – Joining Sword and Pen | April 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Baltimore Playrights Festival | April 30, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Barter Theatre’s Appalachain Festival of Plays and Playwrights | May 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Cintas Fellowship | May 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project | May 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting | May 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Writer’s Digest Writing Competition | May 16, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Mountain Stage New Song Contest | May 16, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| New Song Music Contest | May 16, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Fresh Fruit Festival | May 31, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| USA Songwriting Competition | May 31, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Charles M. Getchell New Play Contest | June 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| California Young Playwrights Contest | June 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Will McLean Song Contest | June 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship | June 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Chris Austin Songwriting Contest | June 13, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Fred Ebb Award | June 30, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| AACT New Play Fest | June 30, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival | June 30, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Playground | June 30, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Centre Stage New Play Festival | July 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre Play Contests | July 1, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| The Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre | July 11, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival | July 18, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Phoenix Festival of New American Theatre | July 25, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Dayton Playhouse FutureFest | July 31, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Little Festival of the Unexpected | September 30, 2025 | EDIT | X |
| Cultural Conversations | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Firehouse Center for the Arts | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Weston Playhouse New Musical Award | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| New York Theatre Workshop Playwriting Fellowship | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Meet the Composer Programs | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Mind the Gap BritBits Short Play Festival | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Urban Stages Emerging Playwright Award | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Irish Repertory Theatre | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| New Professional Theatre Writers Festival | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Williamstown Theatre Festival | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| HRC’s Annual Playwriting Contest | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Play by Play | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| National Showcase of New Plays | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Latino Playwriting Award (KCACTF) | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Native Arts Program Visiting Artist Appointments | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Alabama Shakespeare Festival – Southern Writers’ Project | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Cleveland Public Theatre New Plays Festival | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| FusionFest | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Short Play Festival at Milwaukee Rep | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Wisconsin Arts Board Grant Program | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| WildClaw Theatre Deathscribe Festival | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| FUSION Theatre Company | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Production Grant | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Center for Contemporary Opera | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| The Mickey Kaplan New American Play Prize | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Paramount Song Contest | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Eurovision Song Contest | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Songwriters Hall of Fame Competition | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| North Vision Song Contest | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Colorado New Play Summit | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| David Henry Hwang Writers Institute | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Fieldwork | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Florida Studio Theatre | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Artist Trust | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Connecticut Office of the Arts | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Delaware Division of the Arts | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Foundation Center | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Fulbright Programs and Awards | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Horse Trade Theater Group | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Pew Fellowships in the Arts (PFA) | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Playwrights Foundation | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Playwrights Gallery | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco Staged Readings | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Primary Stages Playwriting Workshops | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Pulse Ensemble Theatre’s Playwrights’ Lab | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Iowa Arts Council | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Richard H. Driehaus Foundation | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| South Dakota Arts Council | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Surdna Foundation | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| U.S. Bancorp Foundation | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Vermont Arts Council | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| William Penn Foundation | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| The New Harmony Project | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| The Scripteasers | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |
| Sound Bites- TNNY (Theatre Now New York) | Ongoing submissions | EDIT | X |