ISA Fast Track Names Fellows & Genre Winners

Updated: 10/20/2021

The International Screenwriters Association has announced Denise Meyers and Alan Jenkins their latest Fast Track Fellowship winners. Seven genre competition winners were also announced.

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TITAN Screenwriting Contest Names Quarterfinalists

Industrial Scripts has announced quarterfinalists in all categories for the 2021 Titan Screenwriting Awards. [Updated: 10/19/2021]

Reno-Tahoe Screenplay Contest Posts Winning Scripts and Writer Interviews

The winners of Reno-Tahoe Screenplay Contest Spring cycle are now in production. [Updated: 10/17/2021]

2021 PAGE Award Winners Announced

The winners of The 2021 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition have now been announced, and this year’s $25,000 Grand Prize has been awarded to A.J. Bermudez for her edgy, contemporary action script ICON. [Updated: 10/17/2021]

Wiki Contest Announces September Contest Winners

The Wine Cellar by Lisa Savy has been named the Best Screenplay of the September, 2021 Wiki Screenplay Contest. Chasing the Dark by Mike Bencivenga was named Best TV Pilot and The Impossible Question by Jeremy Germain was named Best Short Script. [Updated: 10/13/2021]

Austin Fest Names Contest Finalists

The Austin Film Festival has announced the 2021 Script Competition Finalists. Sixty-four scripts were chosen for the Final Round with one winner to be determined in each of the 18 categories. The winners will be announced during this year’s Conference. [Updated: 10/13/2021]

Write LA Names Contest Winner

Mads Gauger and Christan Mary Leonard have been named the Grand Prize Winners of the 2021 Write LA Screenwring Contest for theri TV Pilot, That Woman. [Updated: 10/07/2021]

HollyShorts Names Screenplay Contest Winners

HollyShorts has named Dummy, by Andrew Kaberline, as the winner of their 2021 Screenplay Competition. [Updated: 10/07/2021]

Austin Fest Names Contest Semifinalists

The Austin Film Festival has announced its 2021 Script Competitions Semifinalists, representing the top 2% of a record field of 14,648 submissions. Finalists will be revealed by mid-October and the winners will be announced during this year's Conference. [Updated: 10/06/2021]

Write LA Names Top 5 Finalists

TV Pilot and Feature screenwriting competition Write LA has revealed its top 5 finalists for the 2021 competition. These five writers will now have their scripts read and considered for representation by 5 Literary Management companies: Circle of Confusion, Zero Gravity, Fictional Entity, Grandview and Forward. [Updated: 10/01/2021]

Scriptapalooza Interviews Screenplay Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza has posted video interviews with their top 3 contest winners for 2021. [Updated: 09/29/2021]

HollyShorts Names Finalist Selections

The 8th annual HollyShorts Screenplay Contest has announced their Finalist Selections for 2021. Top 3 screenplays will be announced/awarded at the HollyShorts Awards Ceremony and the winning scripts receive production deals courtesy of The Seattle Film Summit and 88th Street Productions. [Updated: 09/17/2021]

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Interview with Wiki Contest Founder Bob McCullough

Bob McCullough, founder of Wiki: The World's FASTEST Screenplay Contest, and The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards, was born and raised in Los Angeles, and attended Beverly Hills High School and USC. He went to graduate school at the University of Texas where he studied film and television before embarking on a successful career as a TV writer.
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.
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 Hopkins

Taylor 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.