2017 Call for Submissions: LezWrites!

WHAT IS “LEZWRITES!”?
LEZWRITES! is a project of 3Girls Theatre Company that produces readings and performances of short works by lesbian, bi and trans playwrights of all races, ethnicities, and ages. This year’s selections will be curated by a literary panel including 3GT Resident Playwright and Producer, Margery Kreitman, and playwright and Associate Producer, Mercilee Jenkins, published in The Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, and two special guest curators: Tina D’Elia, an award-winning casting director and solo performer whose shows include The Rita Hayworth of this Generation; and Thao P. Nguyen, author/performer of Fortunate Daughter, named one of the Top 10 Bay Area Plays of 2013.

WHO SHOULD SUBMIT
Calling for short works for the stage by Lez, Bi, and Trans writers. Seeking submissions from women of ALL AGES, RACES, ETHNICITIES, and RELIGIONS. WOMEN OF COLOR STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY! We welcome submissions from across the country and around the world. We love it if you are a writer who is comfortable performing her own work. If not, please send us your piece anyway, and we will find a qualified actor(s).

FESTIVAL THEME “Radical Hope and The New Resistance”
We are seeking 5-8 minute HUMOROUS pieces, related to the Festival Theme as it relates to your Lez, Bi, or Trans experience. You may want to focus on the Festival Theme and one or more of the following topics: work, dating, sex, intimacy, marriage, divorce, family, parenting, gender, race, health, aging, community, generational differences, and/or body image.

POSSIBLE POLITICAL TOPICS
Immigration/deportation; climate change; activist burnout; bathroom politics; Planned Parenthood; the future of free education, sexual harassment and sexual abuse; electoral politics; queer feminism today; and equal political representation for women, and any others you may feel inspired to write on.

Your submission can be a personal essay, flash memoir, monologue, slam poetry, two or three character short play or scene, creative non-fiction, or a song.

STIPENDS
$50 for writers or writer/performers and $25 for scene actors.

WHEN/WHERE
We will be doing a reading/performance on Sunday, August 20th at 7:15pm at Potrero Stage (formerly Thick House, 1695 18th Street, San Francisco 94107). It is a great venue with lots of street parking. Please make sure you are available on the day of the reading to attend a run-through rehearsal in the afternoon.

HOW TO SUBMIT: Submission by email only.

• Please send submissions to: lwsubmissions@3girlstheatre.org with the subject “LezWrites! 2017” in subject line.
• Please attach your scripts to your email in MS Word or PDF.
• Please number the pages.
• Please include all contact information on the cover page only: name, email address, phone number(s), and if accept texts.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Midnight, July 15, 2017.

Questions? Email Associate Producer:  Mercilee Jenkins, jenkins.mercilee@gmail.com.