WRITERS are being invited to enter submissions as part of a showcase at Salisbury Arts Centre by Juno Theatre.

The new all-female theatre company has been set up in the city to address the gender inequality gap in theatre and last month was awarded almost £30k from the Arts Council to kickstart its activities.

The group is looking for fresh, completely new plays, two-handers, threehanders or monologues that take inspiration from the theme “Circling The Square”.

The performance date is February 7 and the deadline for scripts is midnight on Friday, October 23.

Writers must live within a 40-mile radius of Salisbury to submit and the work must be a new piece, not staged before, professionally or otherwise.

Scripts must be a maximum of 20 minutes long, with no more than three characters, and they must be written by women, but characters may be male and female.

Plays will be performed with minimal props and using a flexible stage setting, which will be adapted for all the plays in the showcase. Email your script as a Word document to submissions@ junotheatre.co.uk.

If your play is selected for performance in the showcase the writer will receive a fee of £300 for attending the first day of your play’s rehearsal in Salisbury, and the final performance inclusively. Writers must be available throughout January 2016.

One script per writer can be submitted free of charge.

Additional scripts will be considered at a charge of £20 per script, with a cheque payable to Juno Theatre.

Successful writers will be notified by November 9.

Additional script cheques should be sent with your name, email, telephone number and relevant play title to Juno Theatre, South Pines, Brigmerston, Salisbury SP4 8JA.

Please ensure that your name and contact details are on a separate document to the script itself.