Included here are all specified deadlines; the more general submission dates for theatres listed in Production are not included. Deadlines listed reflect upcoming submission deadlines as provided at press time. Some listing deadlines may fall outside the years covered by this book and are not included in this calendar listing. It is always important to confirm a deadline before submitting work.

OCTOBER

1 Creative Connections (1st deadline)
1 Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships
1 Millay Colony for the Arts
1 New Harmony Project
1 New York Mills Arts Retreat (1st deadline)
1 Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre Full-Length Play Contest
1 Ucross Foundation Residency Program (1st deadline)
5 American Antiquarian Society Fellowships
15 Great Plains Theatre Conference
15 Japan-United States Art Program
15 Playwrights First Award
15 Rockford Review (winter edition)
15 Southern Appalachian Playwrights’ Conference
18 U.S. Department of State Fulbright U.S. Student Program
20 Ledig House International Writers’ Colony
21 National Playwrights Conference
28 NEH Division of Research Programs
31 Dayton Playhouse FutureFest
31 Pen Is a Mighty Sword New Play Competition
31 Reva Shiner Comedy Award

Contact for exact deadline during this month:

Poems & Plays

NOVEMBER

1 Bay Area Playwrights Festival
1 Hodder Fellowship
1 Julie Harris Playwriting Awards
1 National Ten-Minute Play Contest
1 One-Act Play Contest
1 Richard Rodgers Awards
1 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
1 Women Playwrights Series—Susan Glaspell Contest
2 American-Scandinavian Foundation
15 North Carolina New Play Project
30 Tennessee Chapbook Prize

Contact for exact deadline during this month:

Coe College New Works for the Stage Competition

KCACTF Ten-Minute Play Award

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artists’ Fellowships

Playwrights Week Festival

STAGE International Script Competition

DECEMBER

Contact for exact deadline during this month:

McKnight National Residency and Commission

NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship Program (4th deadline)

Pew Fellowships in the Arts

JANUARY

1 Artists-in-Berlin Residency Program (Berliner Künstlerprogramm)
1 Musical Theater Unit (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre)
1 New Works Festival
1 Towngate Theatre Playwriting Contest
1 Yaddo (1st deadline)
2 Hawai’i Prize
2 Pacific Rim Prize
2 Resident Prize
3 Young Playwrights Inc National Playwriting Competition
6 NEA Literature Fellowships for Translators
7 Creative Connections (2nd deadline)
14 Dobie-Paisano Fellowship
15 Aurand Harris Children’s Theatre Grants
15 Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (1st deadline)
15 Jentel Artist Residency Program (2nd deadline)
15 Jewel Box Theatre Playwrighting Award
15 Kenyon Review
15 MacDowell Colony (2nd deadline)
15 Perishable Theatre International Women’s Playwriting Festival
15 Premiere Stages Play Festival
15 Ragdale Foundation (1st deadline)
15 Southern Playwrights Competition
15 Summerfield G. Roberts Award
15 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2nd deadline)
16 Wichita State University Theatre
18 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
31 Baker’s Plays High School Playwriting Contest
31 Dubuque Fine Arts Players National One-Act Playwriting Contest
31 PEN Center USA Literary Awards

Contact for exact deadline during this month:

ArtsLink Projects

Camargo Foundation

Festival of New Musicals

NEH Division of Public Programs (1st deadline)

PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama

University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition

FEBRUARY

1 Blue Mountain Center
1 Drama League Directors Project
1 Trustus Playwrights’ Festival
1 U.S./Japan Creative Artists’ Program
1 Vermont Playwrights Award
15 Djerassi Resident Artists Program
15 Theatre Oxford’s 10 Minute Play Contest
15 William Saroyan Prize for Playwriting
16 Isle Royale National Park Artist-in-Residence
28 Hedgerow Horizons
28 Marilyn Hall Awards
28 McLaren Memorial Comedy Play Writing Competition

Contact for exact deadline during this month:

McKnight Advancement Grants

MARCH

1 Byrdcliffe Art Colony
1 Edward F. Albee Foundation
1 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award
1 Next Link Project
1 Ucross Foundation Residency Program (2nd deadline)
1 Woodward/Newman Drama Award
1 Write a Play! NYC Playwriting Competition
2 Anna Zornio Memorial Children’s Theatre Playwriting Award
8 Commissioning Music/USA
14 Arts & Letters Prize in Drama
15 Annual Nationwide Blank Theatre Company
15 Cape Cod Theatre Project
15 Finishing Funds (Electronic Arts)
15 Lorna Littleway’s Juneteenth Jamboree of New Plays
15 New South Festival
15 Playwrights Gallery
27 Young Connecticut Playwrights Festival
30 Theatre Conspiracy Annual New Play Contest
31 Appalachian Festival of Plays & Playwrights
31 National Translation Award
31 Princess Grace Awards

Contact for exact deadline during this month:

Creative Capital Grants

NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship Program (1st deadline)

Voice & Vision ENVISION Retreat

APRIL

1 Aurand Harris Children’s Theatre Fellowships
1 Creative Connections (3rd deadline)
1 National Children’s Theatre Festival
1 New Rocky Mountain Voices
1 New York Mills Arts Retreat (2nd deadline)
1 Resident Playwright program (Chicago Dramatists)
15 Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (2nd Deadline)
15 John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award
15 MacDowell Colony (3rd deadline)
15 Rockford Review (summer/fall edition, members only)
23 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award

Contact for exact deadline during this month:

Artist Leadership Program

Many Voices Fellowships

VSA Playwright Discovery Award

MAY

1 Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award
1 Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
1 Page 73 Productions, Inc
1 Urban Retreat (Young Playwrights Inc)
1 Wings Theatre Company, Inc
15 Ragdale Foundation (2nd deadline)
15 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (3rd deadline
15 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition
31 Award Blue
31 Das Goldkiel
31 Prix Hors Pair

Contact for exact deadline during this month:

BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (librettists)

Writer/Director Lab (Soho Repertory Theatre)

JUNE

1 ASF Translation Prize
1 California Young Playwrights Contest
1 Christopher Brian Wolk Award
1 Creative Connections (4th deadline)
1 Jackie White Memorial National Children’s Playwriting Contest
1 Kernodle New Play Competition
1 Lewis Galantière Literary Translation Prize
1 Met Life Foundation Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition
1 New Professional Theatre Writers Festival
1 Southeastern Theatre Conference New Play Project
3 German Literary Translation Prize
14 L. Arnold Weissberger Award
15 Montana Artists Refuge (1st deadline)
25 GAP (Grants for Artist Projects)
30 Firehouse Theatre Project Festival of New American Plays
30 Lanesboro Residency Program Fellowships
30 Lucia Colombi Playwriting Competition
30 PlayFest: The Harriett Lake Festival

Contact for exact deadline during this month:

Hawthornden Castle International Retreat

Headlands Center for the Arts

NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship Program (2nd deadline)

JULY

1 Ecodrama Playwrights Festival
1 Global Age Project
1 Henrico Theatre Company One-Act Playwriting Competition
1 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition
1 7@7

AUGUST

1 Academy for New Musical Theatre
1 Fulbright Scholar Awards for Faculty and Professionals
1 Waldo and Grace C. Bonderman Awards
1 Yaddo (2nd deadline)
15 Festival of New Plays in Staged Readings
15 Yale Drama Series
31 David Calicchio/Marin Theatre Company Prize
31 Sky Cooper/Marin Theatre Company New American Play Prize
31 Ten-Minute Musicals Project

Contact for exact deadline during this month:

ANT FEST

BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (composers and lyricists)

Emerging Writers Group

Humana Festival of New American Plays

NEH Division of Public Programs (2nd deadline)

SEPTEMBER

1 Black Words on White Pages
1 Nantucket Short Play Festival and Competition
1 Santa Fe Performing Arts New Playwrights Competition
15 Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (3rd Deadline)
15 Jentel Artist Residency Program (1st deadline)
15 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
15 Kleban Award
15 MacDowell Colony (1st deadline)
15 New Visions/New Voices
15 Playwrights’ Unit (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre)
15 Ragdale Foundation (3rd deadline)
15 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
15 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (1st deadline)
15 Wisconsin Arts Board Artist Fellowship Awards
23 Hedgebrook
30 Annual Festival of One-Act Plays
30 Baltimore Playwrights Festival
30 Year-End-Series (Y.E.S.) New Play Festival

Contact for exact deadline during this month:

Advanced Playwriting Workshop (Young Playwrights Inc)

Jerome Fellowships in Playwriting

NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship Program (3rd deadline)

Play Group