Call for Entry – Snapshots Short Play Festival 2025
This year’s Snapshots Short Play Festival Call for Entry is now open!
Submission Deadline (extended) – April 7, 2025
It’s time to sharpen your pencils and get writing for our 2025 Snapshots Short Play Festival!
This year’s theme is Patchwork: The Crazy Quilt of Our Lives
At their most functional, patchwork quilts are multi-layered textiles, composed of many different elements assembled in traditional or abstract patterns. Patchwork quilts provide comfort and warmth, often from the humblest materials, pieced together to create order and substance from random scraps of fabric. Traditional quilt patterns capture historical or personal meaning, while contemporary quilts break out of the quilt block to tell their own rich stories through fabric and stitching.
Life can feel like the assembly of a “crazy” quilt – pieced together and crafted with no apparent pattern, the patches sourced from whatever comes to hand and with whatever stitches and decoration skill, time and resources allow. No two quilts are the same, no two lives are the same – we each have our own “bag of scraps” from which we stitch the fabric of our lives.
Whether literal or figurative, we invite playwrights to explore the crazy quilt of living through the metaphor of the patchwork quilt.
Submissions Deadline: April 7, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2025
Festival Staged Reading Dates: May 9 & 10, 2025
Watch for more details coming soon on our guest festival juror, workshops & prizes.
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To Register, please complete our registration form.
Entry Fees: $25/play, up to 3 entries maximum.
Entry fees may be paid at https://theatre-3×60.square.site/
(Entry is not considered complete without payment.)
*Please note, both the registration form and entry fees must be received for registration to be complete.
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Festival Play Submission Criteria
All entries must be original, have had no prior production, and created from the referenced source material.
Visual Creative Prompts: This year’s visual prompts are for inspiration and reference to quilts and patchwork only; however, the play’s content and theme must clearly have its roots in the festival title and statement above.
Prompts are not to be used publicly or for promotional purposes.
Please go to our Snapshots 2025 Prompts page.
Submission Format Requirements: Please Submit your play manuscript “blind” – with no authorship identified in the actual document, just the title and date. The pdf/word doc. file should include your first initial, last name and date of submission only.
Running time: Minimum 10 minutes, maximum 30 minutes per play.
Cast Size: 1 – 4 characters in any one play.
Staging requirements: Minimal set, props and technical requirements. Each play must be adaptive to multiple presentation formats (live, digital).
More festival details, such as location, prize information, selection panel, and workshops will be available soon. In the meantime – sharpen your pencils and get writing!
Questions? Contact us at info@theatreontheridge.ca
