joining sword & pen playwriting competition 2023/24

We are thrilled to announce that the 2023/2024 Joining Sword & Pen Competition is now accepting submissions.

This is the 10th round of our flagship contest! The competition is open to playwrights of marginalized genders only (this includes cis women, trans women, trans men, non-binary people, genderfluid folks, etc.) We use a blind submission process where the anonymous winner is decided by vote of the BWBTC ensemble who read all qualifying submissions.

Playwrights are to write TOTALLY NEW scripts based on the specific image on our website. The moment depicted in the image must occur at some point in the play.