The ATC Playwriting Competition is held on a bi-annual basis. Although we are not currently accepting submissions, we invite you to familiarise yourself with the guidelines. It's never too early to start oiling those creative gears!
Please do not send any plays for consideration until the next competition has been officially announced.
Entries received outside the official submission period will be disregarded.
The ATC playwriting competition offers you the opportunity to put your story into words and your characters onto the stage. The deadline for submissions is normally December first of the relevant competition year. The winning entry will be announced at the beginning of the year, and the ATC will stage the winning play later that year.
The ground rules of the competition:
The script:
The author:
How do you submit your entry?
Entries should be typewritten in a standard play format and submitted by email in a Word Document to this email address: writing.contest@atcbrussels.com
IMPORTANT: So that plays may be judged fairly and anonymously, your name, address, or any identifying information must NOT appear anywhere in the play script. Please include a cover page with your submission that contains the following information:
You will be contacted to confirm receipt of your submission. All entrants will be notified about results a few weeks after the submission deadline, and the winning entry will be announced in the ATC newsletter shortly thereafter. To sign up to the newsletter, please fill in the form in the "contact" section of this website.
The decision of the judges is final, and no discussion or correspondence will be entered into.
Please do not send any plays to us until the next competition has been officially announced. Any entries received outside the official submission period will be disregarded.
The ground rules of the competition:
The script:
- must be written in English, be original, and not be previously published or performed;
- may deal with any topic and be set in any location, any time period, any country; however, plays set in America or with characters from America will score higher;
- should be no shorter than 25 minutes and no longer than 50 minutes in playing time; and
- may be a comedy, a drama, a play with original music, or even a musical .
The author:
- may be of any nationality;
- must currently reside in Belgium, or have lived in Belgium within the past three years (as of the closing date of the competition); and
- may enter a maximum of ONE script.
How do you submit your entry?
Entries should be typewritten in a standard play format and submitted by email in a Word Document to this email address: writing.contest@atcbrussels.com
IMPORTANT: So that plays may be judged fairly and anonymously, your name, address, or any identifying information must NOT appear anywhere in the play script. Please include a cover page with your submission that contains the following information:
- your name,
- email address,
- postal address,
- phone number, and
- the title of your play.
You will be contacted to confirm receipt of your submission. All entrants will be notified about results a few weeks after the submission deadline, and the winning entry will be announced in the ATC newsletter shortly thereafter. To sign up to the newsletter, please fill in the form in the "contact" section of this website.
The decision of the judges is final, and no discussion or correspondence will be entered into.
Please do not send any plays to us until the next competition has been officially announced. Any entries received outside the official submission period will be disregarded.