Princeton 10-Minute Play Contest
Are you an aspiring playwright looking for an audience? Enter the Princeton 10-Minute Play Contest and win cash prizes and, more important, prestige and major credibility. The bar to entry is low, but the standards for winning are high. What’s holding you back?
“Eligibility for this annual playwriting contest is limited to students in the eleventh grade in the U.S. (or international equivalent of the eleventh grade). Each year the jury consists of members of the Princeton University Program in Theater faculty.
Applicants may submit only one play – 10 pages maximum/1 page equals 1 minute. Please note that we cannot provide critical feedback on submissions. Due to the volume of entries, only the winners will be notified.”
How do I get started? Visit the website for the Princeton Ten Minute Play Contest.
How do I expand this narrative arc? If you love writing and want expand or diversify you narrative arc consider one of the following opportunities:
Submit your work to one of the many teen-focused online publications, like The Maze, Elan Literary Magazine, Hanging Loose Press and more.
Start a playwriting (or broader literary) journal at your school.
Spend the summer at one of the nation’s premier writing programs at one of the Iowa Young Writer’s Studio or the Fir Acres Summer Writing Workshop
Take your love for poetry public with Poetry Out Loud
For a less time-consuming project, Transcribe handwritten documents by Shakespeare’s contemporaries with Shakespeare’s World