Alfred Fagon Award

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 Full details 

Submissions open on 28 April 2025

Award Eligibility and Criteria for Entry

The winning writer will receive £6,000 and excerpts from their winning play will be showcased at the award ceremony.

The competition is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, permanently resident in the UK, for the best original, new stage play in English.  Entrants must confirm on their CV that that they are of African and Caribbean descent.

The play does not need to have been produced.  However, if it has, only plays produced since August 2024 will be considered.

Each entrant can submit only one play. A play may also be nominated by a third party with the writer’s consent (e.g. via an agent).

Plays must be typed, full length and presented as double-spaced, single-sided, in Times New Roman, font 12pt and be a minimum of 40 pages and submitted as a .doc file (Word or PDF).  Manuscripts cannot be altered after entry.

Television, radio plays and film scripts will not be considered.

New as well as established writers are encouraged to enter.

Entries are online only and must be received not later than 5pm, Sunday, 31 August 2025  

All applicants will be notified by email of their entry’s safe arrival.  No correspondence will be entered into between the judges and applicants.

Only shortlisted writers will be contacted in early November 2025.

The writer of the winning play will be announced at The Alfred Fagon Award ceremony in December 2025.

The Alfred Fagon Award is supported by The Peggy Ramsay Foundation.

An entrant who wins the Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play of the Year will not be eligible to be awarded the Mustapha Matura Award and Mentoring Programme in the same year. See how to enter the Mustapha Matura Award and Mentoring Programme 2025.

To enter the Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play of the Year fill out the online submission form on site. 

 

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