Due to overwhelming interest in the Junior HS and Elementary school divisions of the Contest, we are extending the submission deadline to THURSDAY, January 21 at 11:59 p.m.
It is our hope that this extra time will ease up the number of submissions being sent at one time and allow our email server to run more efficiently. Therefore, schools and students who have their scripts ready now should submit their work immediately, please.
Again, be sure that the subject line of your email includes your LAST NAME - TITLE - DIVISION entered and that information ONLY.
Playwrights who have already submitted their work to these divisions, but would still like to continue working on them, can submit a revised draft by the new deadline. If you chose this option, please note that in the subject line of your email with the word REVISED in capital letters.
Thanks and happy writing!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
High School plays due TODAY!
It has been a busy month for me and from the number of scripts that have been submitted already, it looks like it has been a busy month of writing for you, too.
Submissions to the High School, Rewrites, and Podstages divisions are due today, Friday, January 8, no later than 11:59 pm. Scripts that are received with a time stamp later than that will not be entered into the Contest.
Since we are collecting scripts in a new way for the first time this year, I want to remind you of some important steps to the submission process:
1) Submitting your work requires the entry of information in two different places: the online Title Page Information survey and via email to njypf@ptnj.org. Please use the NJ Young Playwrights Festival website to access both steps of this process - www.njypf.org. If you do not complete both steps, your work will not be entered into the Contest.
2) The contact information collected at the Title Page Information Survey is required for each play, so that we may get in touch with a playwright(s) with reader feedback and other Festival-related correspondence. The information provided does not need to be a personal address, but can be contact information for a sponsoring teacher at the playwright's school.
3) The subject line of the email to which your script is attached should only have the following information in this format:
Your Last Name - TITLE OF PLAY - Division entered
Please do not include any other information in the subject line, or body of the email. Thanks!
3) Multiple authors are acceptable for a script submission; however, the number of co-writers is limited to five (5) per script. When completing the Title Page Information Survey, please Use the first two entry questions to enter the names of each co-writer for the script.
4) When in doubt, send all emails (scripts, questions, etc.) to njypf@ptnj.org. The other email accounts listed on the website do not have the memory space to accept scripts. Sending a script to any address other than njypf@ptnj.org may not reach us in time for the deadline.
I think that covers most of the questions that are currently out there. Again, feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns that you have.
Happy writing... and submitting!
Submissions to the High School, Rewrites, and Podstages divisions are due today, Friday, January 8, no later than 11:59 pm. Scripts that are received with a time stamp later than that will not be entered into the Contest.
Since we are collecting scripts in a new way for the first time this year, I want to remind you of some important steps to the submission process:
1) Submitting your work requires the entry of information in two different places: the online Title Page Information survey and via email to njypf@ptnj.org. Please use the NJ Young Playwrights Festival website to access both steps of this process - www.njypf.org. If you do not complete both steps, your work will not be entered into the Contest.
2) The contact information collected at the Title Page Information Survey is required for each play, so that we may get in touch with a playwright(s) with reader feedback and other Festival-related correspondence. The information provided does not need to be a personal address, but can be contact information for a sponsoring teacher at the playwright's school.
3) The subject line of the email to which your script is attached should only have the following information in this format:
Your Last Name - TITLE OF PLAY - Division entered
Please do not include any other information in the subject line, or body of the email. Thanks!
3) Multiple authors are acceptable for a script submission; however, the number of co-writers is limited to five (5) per script. When completing the Title Page Information Survey, please Use the first two entry questions to enter the names of each co-writer for the script.
4) When in doubt, send all emails (scripts, questions, etc.) to njypf@ptnj.org. The other email accounts listed on the website do not have the memory space to accept scripts. Sending a script to any address other than njypf@ptnj.org may not reach us in time for the deadline.
I think that covers most of the questions that are currently out there. Again, feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns that you have.
Happy writing... and submitting!
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
High School plays due in 1 month!
Hey High School playwrights (grades 10-12), there is exactly 1 month until the deadline for submission to plays in the following divisions:
- High School
- Rewrites
- Podstages
Scripts are due by email no later than 11:59 p.m., Saturday, January 8, 2010.
Please visit the Festival website for submission guidelines, forms, and other information - www.njypf.org.
Happy writing!
- High School
- Rewrites
- Podstages
Scripts are due by email no later than 11:59 p.m., Saturday, January 8, 2010.
Please visit the Festival website for submission guidelines, forms, and other information - www.njypf.org.
Happy writing!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
The Debate About Format
Each year of the Festival, there are more questions about how to format a script than there are questions about anything else. This is usually because when scripts are published into books and included in textbooks, the printers will condense the text to read like a novel and to save space (which also saves money). The result is a script that looks like this excerpt from our sample play, The Day Jennifer Lou Ellen Mississipp Kerbunkle Changed Her Life by Bernadette Bizer, 2003:
You can click on the script samples for a larger view.
However, when you write a play and submit it to a theatre or contest, the preferred format looks like this:
This last format above is fairly standard with some variety in the way in which descriptive stage directions are formatted. For example, sometimes the stage directions that describe the scene will be indented toward the middle of the page and without parenthesis. This creates a paragraph on the right side of the page. Stage directions that provide specific character action or emotion are still indented once from the left.
However, the preferred format for the NJ Young Playwrights Festival is different from that variation and other theatres or contest might have a slightly different format, too. So, whenever you submit a play to a theatre or a contest, you should always check how they want the play to be arranged. You will find the NJ Young Playwrights Festival preferred format at the website - http://www.njypf.org/. And never be afraid to contact a theatre with any questions.
Happy writing!
You can click on the script samples for a larger view.
However, when you write a play and submit it to a theatre or contest, the preferred format looks like this:
This last format above is fairly standard with some variety in the way in which descriptive stage directions are formatted. For example, sometimes the stage directions that describe the scene will be indented toward the middle of the page and without parenthesis. This creates a paragraph on the right side of the page. Stage directions that provide specific character action or emotion are still indented once from the left.
However, the preferred format for the NJ Young Playwrights Festival is different from that variation and other theatres or contest might have a slightly different format, too. So, whenever you submit a play to a theatre or a contest, you should always check how they want the play to be arranged. You will find the NJ Young Playwrights Festival preferred format at the website - http://www.njypf.org/. And never be afraid to contact a theatre with any questions.
Happy writing!
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