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BlueCat Names Semifinalists
Updated: 04/13/2021
BlueCat has announced their 2021 Feature, Pilot, and Short Script Semifinalists.
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Screenwriting Contest News 
Wiki Contest Announces March Finalists & Winners
Jan Tilley and Wally Lane's Justified has been named the winner of the March, 2021 Wiki Screenplay Contest. [Updated: 04/18/2021]
Fresh Voices Names 2020-21 Screenplay Competition & Spotlight Award Winners
Ponzi by Wigham Foothill has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020-21 Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition. Genre and Spotlight Award Winners have also been announced. [Updated: 04/08/2021]
ScreenCraft Names Fellowship Quarterfinalists
ScreenCraft has announced their ScreenCraft Fellowship quarterfinalists, selected from almost 4,300 submissions. Semifinalists will be announced on April 28th. [Updated: 03/31/2021]
BlueCat Names Quarterfinalists
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced their feature, pilot, short script semifinalists for 2021. [Updated: 03/31/2021]
Fresh Voices Names Contest Finalists
The Fresh Voices Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2020-21 Finalists, representing the top 3% of screenplays submitted. Winners to be announced April 8th. [Updated: 03/29/2021]
Stowe Story Labs Announces Narrative Lab Quarterfinalists
Stowe Story Labs has announced the 2021 Maven Screen Media, Tangerine Entertainment, International Screenwriters’ Association, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, Final Draft, and Sidewalk Film Festival Fellowship Quarterfinalists to the 2021 Narrative Labs. [Updated: 03/23/2021]
Write LA Announces New Literary Manager Partnerships
The Write LA Screenwriting Competition has announced that their 2021 Finalists will be read and considered by up to five leading Literary Management Companies: Circle of Confusion, Zero Gravity, Fourward, Fictional Entity and Grandview. [Updated: 03/17/2021]
Killer Shorts Announces Top 10 Finalists
The Killer Shorts Screenplay Competition has announced their top 10 Finalists from among 952 submissions. The Top 3 Winners will be announced April 26th. [Updated: 03/15/2021]
Interview with Write LA Grand Prize Winner Nathan Dame
Nathan Dame's television pilot Fräulein Schreiber's Mixtape was recently named the Grand Prize Winner of the Write LA Screenwriting Competition.
Scriptapalooza Posts TV Contest Winner Interviews
Scriptapalooza has posted video interviews with 2021 contest winners. [Updated: 03/08/2021]
Your Script Produced Announces Contest Winners
Your Script Produced has announced their contest winners in Variety. [Updated: 03/06/2021]
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Interview with Write LA Grand Prize Winner Nathan Dame
Nathan Dame's television pilot Fräulein Schreiber's Mixtape was recently named the Grand Prize Winner of the Write LA Screenwriting Competition. -
Interview with 2020 Creative World Award Winner Ross L. Mayberry
Ross L. Mayberry is a Clinical Psychologist in Seattle whose pirate tale Sailing Off the Edge of the World was named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Creative World Awards Screenwriting Competition. -
Interview with Author/Screenwriter Michael Weinreb
Michael Weinreb studied journalism at Penn State, and creative writing at Boston University, and published a book of short stories and several books of non-fiction before trying his hand at screenwriting with The Big D, a sports drama based loosely on the SMU football scandal of the 1980s. -
Interview with Screenwriters Carlo and Erin Carere
Carlo and Erin Carere are partners in life and in writing. Carlo was born in Naples, and published several novels in Italy before turning his attention to screenwriting. Minneapolis native Erin, meanwhile, was a playwright and singer-songwriter. The couple have been writing together since 2014, and their sci-fi TV pilot Dark Horizons has scored more than a dozen contest placements from some of the best-rated contests on MovieBytes. -
Interview with StoryPros Comedy Category Winner Thomas Leupp
Comedy writer Thomas Leupp was born and raised in Los Angeles, and his sports comedy Tres Banditos was the comedy category winner of the 2019 StoryPros Awards, and a runner-up for the 2019 Inroads Fellowship.
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Interview with 2020 Fresh Voices Horror Division Winner Harry Aspinwall
Harry Aspinwall is a writer and actor who grew up in Scotland, but has been living the U.S. - currently Brooklyn - since he was 16. His historical horror script Henrietta was the First Place Winner of the Horror Division of the 2020 Fresh Voices Screenwriting Competition. -
Interview with 2019 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Winner James Gould-Bourn
James Gould-Bourne, winner of the 2019 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Competition, is originally from Manchester, England, but now lives with his wife in Malaysia after four years of living in Lithuania. His debut novel, Bear Necessity, will be published in U.S. on August 4, 2020. -
Interview with 2019 Creative World Award
Winner Taylor HopkinsTaylor Hopkins was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2019 Creative World Awards for his screenplay, Stagecoach Mary, a true story about a hard-drinking, cigar smoking black woman in Montana in 1885, who uses her six shooter and tough as nails attitude to defend a convent of nuns from the perils of the Wild West.
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San Francisco International Screenwriting Competition
Preliminary: 04/23/2021WSPro Discount: No
Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Final: 04/23/2021WSPro Discount: $10.00
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New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition
Preliminary: 04/23/2021WSPro Discount: No
The Indie Gathering International Film Festival
Regular: 04/24/2021WSPro Discount: No
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Breaking Walls Thriller Screenplay Contest
Extended: 04/24/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
CineStory Foundation Feature Retreat and Fellowship
Extended: 04/25/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
Regular: 04/25/2021WSPro Discount: No
Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition
Final: 04/26/2021WSPro Discount: No
ISA Comedy Genre Busting Screenplay Competition New!
Final: 04/27/2021WSPro Discount: No
ISA Drama Genre Busting Screenplay Competition New!
Final: 04/27/2021WSPro Discount: No
Stage 32 TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest
Early: 04/28/2021WSPro Discount: No
Golden Script Competition
April Deadline: 04/29/2021WSPro Discount: No
Tirota/Finish Line Script Competition New!
Regular Deadline: 04/29/2021WSPro Discount: No
Launch Pad Feature Screenwriting Competition
Early: 04/30/2021WSPro Discount: No
ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenwriting Competition
Early: 04/30/2021WSPro Discount: No
The Script Lab's Free Contest
Early: 04/30/2021WSPro Discount: No
ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition
Regular: 04/30/2021WSPro Discount: No
ScreenCraft Comedy Screenwriting Competition
Final: 04/30/2021WSPro Discount: No
Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
Late: 04/30/2021WSPro Discount: No
StoryPros Awards Contest
Final (extended): 04/30/2021WSPro Discount: $10.00
Screenplay Festival
Early: 04/30/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
CBS Writers Mentoring Program
Final: 05/01/2021WSPro Discount: No
Script Pipeline Screenwriting and TV Writing Competition
Regular: 05/01/2021WSPro Discount: No
HollyShorts Screenplay Contest
Late: 05/01/2021WSPro Discount: $15.00
Lit Laughs International Comedy Film Festival New!
Late: 05/01/2021WSPro Discount: No
Shore Scripts - Short Film Fund
Final: 05/02/2021WSPro Discount: No
Coverage Ink's Get Repped Now
Deadline: 05/02/2021WSPro Discount: $10.00
Art of Brooklyn Film Festival
Extended Deadline: 05/02/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
Dallas International Film Festival New!
Final: 05/02/2021WSPro Discount: No
Houston International Sports Film Festival Screenplay Championship New!
Final: 05/02/2021WSPro Discount: No
Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Late: 05/03/2021WSPro Discount: No
2021 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
Final: 05/03/2021WSPro Discount: No
Write LA
Early: 05/05/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
Launch Pad Pilot Competition
Final: 05/07/2021WSPro Discount: No
WriteMovies Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award 2021
Late: 05/09/2021WSPro Discount: No
Stage 32 TV Drama Writing Contest
Final: 05/12/2021WSPro Discount: No
Table Read My Screenplay Genre Competition
Early: 05/13/2021WSPro Discount: No
Creative World Awards
Extended: 05/14/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
Script Pipeline Screenwriting and TV Writing Competition
Late: 05/15/2021WSPro Discount: No
WeScreenplay Shorts Competition
Late: 05/15/2021WSPro Discount: No
WeScreenplay College Screenplay Competition New!
Early : 05/15/2021WSPro Discount: No
FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Regular: 05/15/2021WSPro Discount: No
Scriptation Showcase Features & Shorts Category
Regular: 05/16/2021WSPro Discount: No
Humanitas New Voices
Extended: 05/17/2021WSPro Discount: No
Stage 32 TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest
Regular: 05/19/2021WSPro Discount: No
Diversity Film & Script Showcase
Extended: 05/19/2021WSPro Discount: No
Adapted Screenplay Competition
Late: 05/19/2021WSPro Discount: No
Golden Script Competition
May Deadline: 05/20/2021WSPro Discount: No
San Francisco International Screenwriting Competition
Regular: 05/20/2021WSPro Discount: No
Faith in Film: International Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition
Final: 05/20/2021WSPro Discount: No
Austin Film Festival Script Competition
Late: 05/21/2021WSPro Discount: No
Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition
Final: 05/21/2021WSPro Discount: No
The Indie Gathering International Film Festival
Late: 05/21/2021WSPro Discount: No
New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition
Regular: 05/21/2021WSPro Discount: No
Future Film Writers Season 2 (Youth Short)
Regular: 05/21/2021WSPro Discount: No
HollyShorts Screenplay Contest
Extended: 05/22/2021WSPro Discount: $15.00
WriteMovies Spring 2021 Screenwriting Contest
Late: 05/23/2021WSPro Discount: No
Write LA
Regular: 05/25/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
Launch Pad Feature Screenwriting Competition
Regular: 05/28/2021WSPro Discount: No
Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
Late: 05/30/2021WSPro Discount: No
Warner Bros. Writers Workshop
Final: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenwriting Competition
Regular: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
The Script Lab's Free Contest
Regular: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
ScreenCraft Drama Screenwriting Competition
Early: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition
Final: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
Shore Scripts Feature Screenplay Contest
Early: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
ScreenCraft $30,000 Film Fund
Final: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest
Early: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
Final: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
Screenplay Festival
Standard: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
Circa Historical Screenplay Competition
Late: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
ScreenCraft Animation Screenwriting Competition
Early: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
Near Nazareth Festival
Final: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
Page Turner Awards New!
Final: 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: No
Global Film Market New!
Regular : 05/31/2021WSPro Discount: $25.00
Script Pipeline First Look Project
Early: 06/01/2021WSPro Discount: No
Scriptapalooza Fellowship
Final: 06/01/2021WSPro Discount: No
FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Late: 06/01/2021WSPro Discount: No
Capital Fund Screenplay Competiton
Final: 06/01/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
Screamfest Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
Final: 06/02/2021WSPro Discount: No
Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Regular: 06/07/2021WSPro Discount: No
Stage 32 TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest
Final: 06/09/2021WSPro Discount: No
Tirota/Finish Line Script Competition New!
Latecomers Submissions: 06/10/2021WSPro Discount: No
Lit Laughs International Comedy Film Festival New!
Extended: 06/10/2021WSPro Discount: No
Williamsburg International Film & Music Competition
Late: 06/12/2021WSPro Discount: No
Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
Extended: 06/13/2021WSPro Discount: No
WeScreenplay Shorts Competition
Final: 06/15/2021WSPro Discount: No
WeScreenplay Television Pilot Competition
Early Bird: 06/15/2021WSPro Discount: No
WeScreenplay College Screenplay Competition New!
Regular: 06/15/2021WSPro Discount: No
Write LA
Final: 06/15/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
Screamfest Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
Extended: 06/15/2021WSPro Discount: No
FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Extended: 06/15/2021WSPro Discount: No
New York City Horror Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Regular: 06/15/2021WSPro Discount: No
Table Read My Screenplay Genre Competition
Regular: 06/17/2021WSPro Discount: No
San Francisco International Screenwriting Competition
Standard: 06/17/2021WSPro Discount: No
Capital Fund Screenplay Competiton
Extended: 06/17/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
Capital Fund Screenplay Competiton
Extended: 06/17/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
Cynosure Screenwriting Awards
Regular: 06/19/2021WSPro Discount: $5.00
Adapted Screenplay Competition
Extended: 06/23/2021WSPro Discount: No
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Austin Film Festival Script Competition
Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Script Pipeline Screenwriting and TV Writing Competition
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WriteMovies Spring 2021 Screenwriting Contest
Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition
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