Call for Submissions
OPEN JANUARY 1 TO APRIL 1, 2025
We're calling on TEEN WRITERS (ages 13-19) from across the country to write and submit short 10-minute plays confronting gun violence.
What if you had ten minutes to say whatever you wanted about gun violence?
From shooter drills at school to sirens on your street to new hashtags on social, the threat of gun violence is all around, every day. But how often do you get to talk about it? How often do you really feel heard?
We know you have to think about it. Now we’re asking you to speak on it. We need you to channel your fear and frustration, your anxiety and anger, and, yes, your hope, into stories.
Stories that tackle the issue of gun violence.
Stories that show us that this is not normal.
Stories that show us how to be better.
We need your voice now more than ever.
So…what if you had ten minutes to say whatever you wanted about gun violence?
What if you had ten minutes to change the world?
TEENS WRITE & SUBMIT
10 min
SHORT PLAYS ON GUN VIOLENCE
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS
April 1
OPEN TO ALL TEENS AGES
13-19
6 PLAYWRIGHTS ARE...
$500
PAID
Select playwrights receive a $500 stipend for their play.
PRODUCED
The plays chosen by the Selection Committee will be staged in dozens of communities across the country in the ENOUGH! Nationwide Reading.
PUBLISHED
Plays will be published in a collected anthology that will be licensed for future productions by Playscripts, an imprint of Broadway Licensing. View past plays.
Playwrights will also be provided airfare and housing to attend the flagship Nationwide Reading at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., receive free memberships and craft training from The Dramatists Guild , and feedback from nationally renowned playwrights.
PAST SELECTION PANELISTS
Every year, our plays are chosen by an electrifying group of some of the most awesome and acclaimed voices in American Theater today. Below are past members of our honorary selection panel. Our 2025 panel will be announced soon!