Whether you’re applying for our Playwright Mentoring Programme or Disabled Playwright Support Programme with Birds of Paradise Theatre Company (BOP) we’d love to hear from you.

Deadline: 1pm, Friday 21st November

State of the Nation was a collaboration between @atandmt.bsky.social, Citizens Theatre and Playwrights' Studio, Scotland

Photo credit: Julian Bailey

If you took part, check your e-mail for a link to provide feedback and notes from the day.

We’ll be sharing a summary of the event and what attendees wanted to see from the sector via social media before the end of the year.

State of the Nation was a collaboration between @atandmt.bsky.social, Citizens Theatre and Playwrights' Studio, Scotland

Photo credit: Julian Bailey

If you took part, check your e-mail for a link to provide feedback and notes from the day. We’ll be sharing a summary of the event and what attendees wanted to see from the sector via social media before the end of the year.

Bursaraidh Leasachaidh Dealbh-chluich Gàidhlig
• In partnership with the @leughleabhar.bsky.social, the bursary offers early career and professional playwrights space to explore a new piece of writing in Gaelic.

Link: playwrightsstudio.co.uk/bursaraidh-l...

Self-Led Projects
• Help for playwrights to self-design and deliver their own project. Up to £4,000 is available per project, whether you’d like to focus on developing your craft, foster new collaborations or explore a new piece of live performance.

Link: playwrightsstudio.co.uk/self-led-pro...

Play Development Bursaries
• Offers professional playwrights space to invest in a new idea, with financial and practical support to help you get to the first draft of a new play.

Link: playwrightsstudio.co.uk/play-develop...

3.30pm
Future Life: Thinking beyond the Fringe
A range of industry guests discuss how to keep momentum up after a production, including writers Uma Nada-Rajah and Karis Kelly, producer Ellie Keel and dramaturg Jackie Crichton.

1.45pm
An Idiot’s Guide To The Fringe: 10 Ways To Be A Bad Producer
Ellie Keel (the youngest ever winner of Producer of the Year at The Stage Awards) leads a workshop examining the pitfalls of being a producer at the Fringe.

10.45am
Ivo Graham: Where Comedy and Theatre Meet
Join comedian and theatre writer Ivo Graham for an informal workshop about the crossover between the two.

10.30am or 2.30pm
Write Your Way Out: An Escape Room for Writers
It is September 1883 and the opening night of the Royal Lyceum Theatre looms large over Edinburgh. But things have gone awry and only you can help… by getting some writing done.

Bring scraps of ideas you’re working on, weather appropriate clothes, and a sense of adventure.

We’ll be holding a virtual version of this later in the autumn, so if you can’t join us in Edinburgh, you won’t miss out.

For more information & to sign up, click here: form.jotform.com/252165239742...

Join us on Monday afternoon as three leading Scottish theatre makers each share a favourite chapter from this groundbreaking and influential book.

For more information and to book, follow this link: www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve...

Sign up here and join us for an hour of conversation: form.jotform.com/251692852975...

Case Study Sessions are online, free to attend and open to playwrights at any stage of their career.