Clockhouse invites dramatic writing for stage and screen, in both traditional and experimental registers, for its V14 reading period. The call is deliberately bounded: one work per submission period, standalone rather than excerpted, and no monologues. The constraint is not incidental. It signals an editorial preference for self-contained dramatic architecture—writing that establishes its own world, stakes, and resolution within a compact frame, and that can be read as a complete gesture rather than a fragment of a larger project. The journal's stated criterion is audience consciousness. Work is assessed not solely on literary merit but on whether it is written to be received—whether the playwright or screenwriter has reckoned with pacing, address, and the experience of a viewer or reader encountering the piece cold. This places the call in a lineage of dramatic publishing that treats the script as a performative document rather than a closet text, and it favors writers who understand the difference between dialogue that reads well and dialogue that plays. There is no submission fee, and the guidelines are enforced strictly: submissions that deviate are discarded unread. The required cover page with character breakdown, industry-standard formatting with pagination, and a bio of approximately 100 words or fewer are not bureaucratic formalities but the baseline of professional presentation. For a writer, the practical return is a considered read within a defined editorial frame, and the discipline of preparing a clean, complete, ten-page dramatic work for an audience-minded readership.