• All performances of The Streets Where We Live are now sold out!

• Our Lady of Bludellsands is back in rehearsing with old and new cast members, it opens at the Everyman on Fri 17 Sep.

•  Our creative director recruitment is now open: www.everymanplayhouse.com/creative-director.

• WoW's Free Online Write What's Next course for 18 - 25 year olds will provide online mentoring and creative writing masterclasses with high profile writers for young Liverpool creatives. Deadline Tue 31 Aug.

• Leo&Hyde are a theatre company based in Manchester. They are looking to work with 3 designers from any creative design-based discipline to help them explore the use of VR in their work. Deadline for applications is Fri 27 of Aug. For more information and details on how to apply, click here.

• Whether you are a new poet performing for the first time or a seasoned poet who wants to try out some new stuff, you can perform at next week’s A Lovely Word, Liverpool’s relaxed and eclectic poetry night. Follow this link to find out how to sign up!

• The Imison Award of £3,000 is presented for an audio drama script by a writer new to the medium. Submissions accepted from any party (producer, broadcasting organisation, writer, agent etc). Deadline Sun 3 Oct. 

• The Tinniswood Award invites submissions of audio drama scripts broadcast or made available online between 1 October 2020 and 31 October 2021. Submissions are accepted from producers, broadcasting organisations, writers or agents. The work must be an original piece for audio as broadcast and may include the first episode from an original series or serial. Deadline Sun 3 Oct. 

• The 2021 Waltham Forest Poetry Competition invites entries of poems of up to 40 lines on any theme. Entry fee £3 or two poems £4. 1st prize £400, 2nd £200, 3rd £100. Deadline Mon 11 Oct.

• To see latest round-up of creative opportunities in the North West and beyond, you can sign up for free Chainlinks bulletins by emailing: artswest@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk. 

• Are you: Over 25 and based in Merseyside? Interested in a career in community theatre? Not able to get on a formal drama or arts course? Join the Radical Makers Participatory Theatre Training programme. Radical Makers is Collective Encounters’ year-long free part time emerging artist training course starting at the end of September. 

• Monologue Making Mondays is Make it Write Productions’ workshops for beginners and those with limited writing experience. Using a technique called writing together, mentor Sharon Colpman will help you to perfect the following; characterisation, entertaining an audience, adding drama and rhythm to your monologue and putting your monologue on stage. The six sessions begin Mon 6 Sep, 7-9pm.

• How to Use a Den is a family friendly audio play by All Things Considered Theatre, commissioned by E&P New Works. All about adventure and den-building, this is perfect for 5 – 7 year olds. More info here.

• A Lovely Word Featuring Dominic Berry kicks off next Thu 2 Sep downstairs at the Everyman. Dominic was the 2017 Glastonbury Festival Poet in Residence, winner of the 2020 and 2017 Saboteur ‘Best Spoken Word Artist’ award. Many incredible poets will join Dominic in this friendly and fun evening of performance poetry. 

• Our New Works Showcase presents exciting new work from our 19/20 Playwrights Programme. A collaboration between the writers, local professional actors and directors will bring you 20 minute extracts and shorts from plays they have developed since the end of the course, culminating in four showcases from Wed 15 Sep to Sat 18 Sep.

• Reel Tours: Mega Movie Quiz is back on the third Thursday of every month downstairs in the Everyman. From September to June test your cinematic knowledge in the most exciting film quiz in Liverpool... in a theatre. Tickets are just £3 per person!

• Our Lady of Blundellsands is back next month! A hilariously twisted comic drama written for the Everyman by Jonathan Harvey and directed by Nick Bagnall, it’s about families and fantasies, honesty and lies – and about how heartbreaking great comedy can be. 

• Join Collective Encounters on Mon 30 Sep for an evening of quick-fire presentations by people passionate about using the arts for social change. You can connect, network, discuss ideas and be inspired at their Arts for Social Change Showcase - their free tickets are available now.