Everyone Has a Story: A Submission Opportunity for Subscribers of "How To Playwright"

HOW TO PLAYWRIGHT is Accepting Submissions for Future Articles - Deadline: Ongoing

Hello subscribers of How to Playwright! In 2025, I am starting a new series called Everyone Has a Story, highlighting the work of my treasured subscribers. I am collecting examples of great monologues and dialogue (1,000 character max) for future articles and I am particularly interested in pieces taken all or in part from your real life experiences.

• To be considered, you must be a current subscriber.

• Send your writing sample, along with your email address and a link to where people can learn more about the particular piece you are submitting. You might be included in an upcoming article!

• There is no deadline, this is an ongoing opportunity.

• Please limit your submissions to one per season (4 per year).

• I won't be able to respond to every single submission, but you will get an email confirmation letting you know I've received it.

• “Winners” will receive a free sticker from my art collection and inclusion in a future article of How to Playwright.

Thanks for submitting and good luck!

Incidentally, I’d love to hear from you about how you’re doing and how your year has been. Feel free to drop me a line.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Audrey

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Audrey Cefaly's plays (Alabaster, Maytag Virgin, The Gulf, The Last Wide Open, Trouble) have garnered the Lammy Award, the Calicchio Prize, the NNPN Goldman Prize, the Edgerton, and a Pulitzer nomination. Her works have been produced at Signature Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Barter Theatre, Merrimack Rep, Florida Studio, Florida Rep, Gulfshore Playhouse, and countless others. Cefaly is a Dramatist Guild Foundation "Traveling Master," an Arena Stage playwright cohort, and a recipient of the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers Conference.  She is published by Concord Theatricals, Applause Books, Smith & Kraus and TRW

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