The International Centre for Women Playwrights: A Resource

While I was at the International Women Playwrights Conference in Mumbai at the beginning of November (see past blog entries for more information on the conference), I found out about a “virtual centre” for women playwrights that links playwrights to resources, professional development opportunities and publishing opportunities. The virtual centre is called the International Women Playwrights Centre (ICWP) and it can be visited at: www.womenplaywrights.org.

ICWP has members in: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ethiopia, England, Iran, Israel, Germany, Mongolia, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Romania, Scotland, Serbia & Montenegro, South Africa, Uruguay and the USA. Playwrights interested in finding out what women around the world are writing about can use the link “find a playwright” and access biographies of over 500 women playwrights.

The Centre’s homepage includes information on its 2009 face-to-face retreat in Ohio (the USA); a list of ICWP members’ current productions and a call for submissions for 2010 publication of 
an anthology entitled "Scenes from a Diverse World” (the deadline for submissions is November 30, 2009).

After reading the call, I submitted three scenes from my play Harriet’s House to the call. “Scenes from a Diverse World" will be published by ICWP in 2010 and marketed to an audience of teenage and adult student actors. Proceeds of the publication will go to ICWP, but feature playwrights will receive a complimentary hard copy of the anthology.

In my next blog, I’ll talk about my writing group, Moving Pen.

All the best,
Tara