5 Days to go!

This is the final week of open submissions to the 2012 New Jersey Young Playwrights Contest! Be sure to submit your work by the appropriate day:

 

• High School (grades 10-12) - script due NO LATER than 11:59 pm on Saturday, January 14
• Junior HS (grades 7-9) and Elementary (grades 4-9) - script due NO LATER than 11:59 pm on Sunday, January 15

 

To submit your script you must do BOTH of the following:

1. Complete the online information page at http://www.njypf.org/ (click the link for Guidelines and Play Submissions, then scroll down to the bottom of the new page)
2. Send your script via email as either a Microsoft Word or PDF file to njypf@ptnj.org. Please include your last name, play title, and division in the subject line of your email.

If we do not receive BOTH of the above items, your play will not be included in the Contest!

 

Thanks and happy writing!

Revisiting the debate about format

With 10 days until the script submission deadline, I thought I would publish the link to one of our most visited posts: "The Debate About Format". Every year there are many questions about how to format a script submission. Please use the information in this post as a guide. You will find the link below.

http://njyoungplaywrights.blogspot.com/2009/12/debate-about-format.html

Happy writing!

Congratulations to former NJ Young Playwright, Mary Hamilton

We recently read that former New Jersey Young Playwright Festival winner Mary Hamilton (2000 and 2001) was named as one of six finalists for the 2012 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. Congratulations, Mary!

http://www.p73.org/2011/12/14/finalists-for-the-2012-p73-playwriting-fellowship-2/

(11 days to go until scripts are due!)

Deadline approaching

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had a creative and inspiring holiday season.

Today begins our official countdown to the submission deadlines for the 2012 New Jersey Young Playwrights Contest & Festival. While there are two deadlines for scripts, the countdown will mark the days until January 14, which is the date that High School division (grades 10-12) plays are due. So...

12 days remaining to submit your script!

Be sure to visit the program website at http://www.njypf.org/ for details on how to send us your play. Please remember that this is a two-step process. Many of you have registered via our online survey form over the last few months, but have not yet submitted your play. I will follow up via email with everyone who has done this by the end of this Friday (January 6). After that time, the reminders will stop. So, get that play in now!

(The information below contains a correction from the original post)

Also, if you are planning to submit your work to the national Young Playwrights Conference (a separate program conducted by Young Playwrights, Inc.), that deadline was yesterday, January 2; however, Young Playwrights, Inc. has indicated on their website that they will accept scripts with a POSTMARK of January 3 since yesterday was a Federal holiday and the post office was closed. Please see their website for details about that contest at http://www.youngplaywrights.org/. YOU CAN SUBMIT TO BOTH CONTESTS, so you are highly encouraged to do so.

Happy writing!