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Inaugural Playwriting Prize [Vol. LII - "Gibbous" Issue]
Playwriting Prize: A competition for twenty-minute stage scripts. Only one playwriting piece will be accepted per issue. The final round will be judged by CMU Drama faculty (ranked #4 globally by The Hollywood Reporter in their 2025 list of best drama schools).
One piece per submission. Your name should not be printed anywhere on your submission, save the document title. Prize pot is $250.
Titles should follow the format “Name, Genre”.
Editors’ Foreword:
Having recently published our half-century issue, the Oakland Review is growing, working, waxing. Taken on its own, “gibbous” represents a concept still in the works, under construction, nearly-there. Perhaps this is what it means to live in a gibbous phase of the decade: something swollen, marked by tension and possibility. How do you—and your work—handle the half-light?
Inaugural Playwriting Prize [Vol. LII - "Gibbous" Issue]
Playwriting Prize: A competition for twenty-minute stage scripts. Only one playwriting piece will be accepted per issue. The final round will be judged by CMU Drama faculty (ranked #4 globally by The Hollywood Reporter in their 2025 list of best drama schools).
One piece per submission. Your name should not be printed anywhere on your submission, save the document title. Prize pot is $250.
Titles should follow the format “Name, Genre”.
Editors’ Foreword:
Having recently published our half-century issue, the Oakland Review is growing, working, waxing. Taken on its own, “gibbous” represents a concept still in the works, under construction, nearly-there. Perhaps this is what it means to live in a gibbous phase of the decade: something swollen, marked by tension and possibility. How do you—and your work—handle the half-light?