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StoryPros International Names Contest Finalists

Finalists have been announced for the 17th Annual Story Pros International Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 12/09/2023

Shore Scripts Names Contest Winner

Vibrations, by Kedar Williams Stirling, has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Shore Scripts Feature Screenplay Competition. Updated: 12/05/2023

Shore Scripts Announces Short Film Fund Finalists

Shore Scripts has announced the Top 15 finalists for their Fall Season, 2023 Short Film Fund, representing less than 1% of all submissions. Winners will be anounced December 14th. Updated: 12/01/2023

Shore Scripts Names Film Fund Semifinalists

Shore Scripts has announced the semifinalists - representing the top 3% of all submissions - for their Fall, 2023 Short Film Fund. Finalists will be announced December 1st. Updated: 11/24/2023

Wiki Screenplay Names October Contest Winners

Jordan Ancel's The Mob Kid has been named the winner of the October, 2023 Wiki Screenplay Competition. The Best TV and Best Short Script winners have also been announced. Updated: 11/15/2023

Shore Scripts Announces Semifinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their 2023 Feature Screenplay Contest semifinalists, representing the top 5% of all submissions. Winners will be announced December 5th. Updated: 11/10/2023

Austin Fest Names Screenplay Contest Winners

The 2023 Austin Film Festival Script Competition winners were chosen from a record field of 11,500 scripts entered in the Screenplay, Digital Series, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions. The winners were selected by a distinguished panel of industry judges including, Tatiana Suarez-Pico (Hunters, Penny Dreadful, Iron Fist, Snowfall), Christina Hodson (Bumblebee, Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey, The Flash), Tripper Clancy (Stuber, I Am Not Okay With This, Die Hart), & Herschel Weingrod (Trading Places, Kindergarten Cop). Updated: 11/07/2023

NYC Horror Fest Names Script Selections

The New York City Horror Film Festival has announced their 2023 Unproduced Short and Feature script selections. Updated: 11/06/2023

ISA Names Fall, 2023 Fast Track Fellowship Winners

The International Screenwriters Association has named Kiefer Lloyd and Miguel Angel Caballero & Luis Antonio as their Fast Track Fellows for Fall, 2023. Category winners have also been announced. Updated: 10/25/2023

Shore Scripts Announces Quarterfinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their 2023 Feature Screenplay Contest quarterfinalists, representing the top 10% of all submissions. Semifinalists will be announced November 10th. Updated: 10/25/2023

Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards Names Summer Competition Winners

Georgia L. Well's The Last Road Trip has been named the "Best Screenplay" Winner of the Summer, 2023 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards. The Best TV Script and Best Short Winners have also been announced. Updated: 10/19/2023

Wiki Screenplay Names September Contest Winners

Contest judges analyzed scripts submitted by writers from England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Ukraine, Australia, Spain, Portugal, India, Germany, Finland, West Indies, South Africa ... as well as nearly every state in the U.S. and have announced winners at both the 10-page and full script entry levels. Updated: 10/19/2023

Austin Fest Announces Script Competition Finalists

The Austin Film Festival has announced their 2023 Script Competition Finalists! 67 scripts were chosen for the Final Round with one winner to be determined in each of the 17 categories. The winners will be announced during this year's Conference. Updated: 10/18/2023

2023 PAGE Award Winners Announced

The winners of The 2023 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition have now been announced, and this year’s $25,000 Grand Prize has been awarded to Sarah E. Sinclair for her historical drama The Stratford Wife. Updated: 10/15/2023

Screamfest Names Announces Screenplay Finalists

Screamfest has announced the finalists of their 2023 Screenplay Competition. The winning screenplay will be announced on October 19th. Updated: 10/12/2023

Shore Scripts Announces TV Pilot Winners

Shore Script has announced their 1-Hour and 1/2-Hour TV Pilot Competition Winners for 2023. Updated: 10/05/2023

Scriptapalooza Names 2023 Screenplay Contest Winners

Nightmares From A Past Life, by Wallace Wang, has been named the 1st Place Winner of the 2023 Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition. Updated: 09/28/2023

Scriptapalooza Names Fiction Podcast Contest Winner

Sarah Laverne has been chosen as the 2023 Scriptapalooza Fiction Podcast Contest winner for her script The Girl Who Loves Bread. Updated: 09/25/2023

Wiki Screenplay Names August, 2023 Contest Winners

Louis Lehrman's Under the Influence has been named the Wiki Screenplay Contest "Best Screenplay" winner for August, 2023. The Best TV Script and Best Short Script winners have also been announced. Updated: 09/15/2023

Write LA Names Top 5 Finalists

Write LA has announced the top 5 finalists of the Write LA Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 09/15/2023

PAGE Announces 2023 Contest Finalists

The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition has announced their list of Finalists for 2023, representing the top 10 scripts in each of the contest's 10 genre categories. Winners will be announce October 15th. Updated: 09/15/2023

Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood Names Contest Finalists

The Top 10 Finalists have been announced for the Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood Contest. Updated: 09/13/2023

Scriptapalooza Names Short Screenplay Contest Winners

A Powerful Weapon, by Bill Santis, has been named the winner of the 2023 Scriptapalooza Short Screenplay Competition. Updated: 09/12/2023

Shore Scripts Announces TV Pilot Semifinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV Pilot Semfinalists, which represent the top 5% of this year's submissions. Updated: 09/10/2023

Scriptapalooza Names TV Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza has announced their latest TV Pilot, Sitcom, 1-Hour Drama and Reality TV Contest Winners. Updated: 09/05/2023

Write LA Announces 2023 Semifinalists

Semifinalists and Honorable Mentions have been announced for the 2023 Write LA Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 09/01/2023

Big Break Competition Announces 2023 Quarterfinalists

Feature and TV Writing Competition quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2023 Big Break Screenwriting Competition, sponsored by Final Draft. Updated: 08/26/2023

Dallas International Film Festival Grand Prize Winner to be Produced

The grand prize winner of the Dallas International Film Festival's 2023 Screenplay Competition, Sneakerhead by Jamie Campbell, will be produced by Torfoot Studios and Event Horizon Films, and directed by award-winning filmmaker Johnathan Brownlee, pending WGA and SAG negotiations. The film will join the shorts lineup at the Dallas International Film Festival. Updated: 08/26/2023

Shore Scripts Names TV Pilot Quarterlinalists

Shore Script has announced their 2023 TV Pilot Competition quarterfinalists. Updated: 08/26/2023

Scriptapalooza Names Finalists

Scriptapalooza has named 30 finalists from among more than 3500 submissions to their 2023 Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 08/21/2023

Wiki Screenplay Contest Names July Winners

The July Wiki Screenplay Contest featured entries at both the 10-page and full script entry levels from an expanding roster of writers working far beyond the world of Hollywood. Contest judges analyzed scripts submitted by writers from England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Ukraine, Australia, Spain, Portugal, India, Germany, Finland, South Africa ... as well as nearly every state in the U.S. Updated: 08/17/2023

PAGE Awards Contest Announces 2023 Semifinalists

The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition has now posted their list of Semifinalists for 2023, representing the top 25 scripts in each of the contest's 10 genre categories. This year’s Semifinalists include scripts by writers from all across the United States and around the world: Colombia, Brazil, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Italy, India, Singapore, South Korea, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Updated: 08/15/2023

Scriptapalooza Names 2023 Semifinalists

The Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition has announced semifinalists from among more than 3500 submissions. Updated: 08/11/2023

Scriptapalooza Names 2023 Contest Quarterfinalists

The 2023 Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition has announced 457 quarterfinalists from among 3552 submissions. Semifinalists will be announced August 7th. Updated: 07/31/2023

Golden Script Competition Announces Golden List of 2023

The Golden Script Competition has announced their Golden List of 2023, a yearly list highlighting the best unproduced features, shorts & TV pilots of the year, carefully selected from a pool of 2,427 submissions. Updated: 07/20/2023

Wiki Screenplay Contest Names June Contest Winners

Katreana Bellew's Black Sunday has been named the Wiki Screenplay Contest "Best Screenplay" Winner for June, 2023. The Best TV Script and Best Short Script winners have also been announced. Updated: 07/18/2023

PAGE Awards Contest Announces 2023 Quarterfinalists

The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition has announced their quarterfinalists for 2023, representing the top 10% of this year's entries - over 8,600 screenplays submitted by writers from all across the United States and more than 80 foreign countries. Updated: 07/15/2023

Golden Script Competition Announces Contest Winners

Cathriona Slammon has been named the Feature Category Winner of the Golden Script Competition for her script, What Little Girls Are Made Of. The TV Category and Short Script Category Winners have also been announced. Updated: 07/15/2023

Creative World Awards Names 2023 Contest Winners

David Woll's drama Vivian has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Creative World Awards Screenwriting Competition. Genre and short script winners have also been announced. Updated: 07/08/2023

Scriptapalooza Names Fellowship Winner

Danielle Berrin has been named the winner of the 2023 Scriptapalooza Fellow on the basis of her script, Spinster. Updated: 06/28/2023

Richmond Fest Announces Official Selections

The Richard International Film Festival has announced its Feature, Teleplay and Short Screenplay Official Selections for 2023. Updated: 06/26/2023

CWA Names Top Finalists

The Creative World Awards has announced their Top Finalists for 2023. Updated: 06/26/2023

Shore Scripts Names Film Fund Winners

Eddie Mujica's Loco has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the Shore Scripts Short Film Fund. The script is a surreal, dark comedy about mental health stigma in the Latinx community. Updated: 06/14/2023

Scriptapalooza Fellowship Names Top 20 Writers

The Scriptapalooza Fellowship - in association with Robert McKee - has announced its top 20 writers. The 2023 Recipient and the 5 runners-up will be announced on June 26th. Updated: 06/13/2023

Wiki Screenplay Contest Announces May, 2023 Contest Winners

Desert Bells by Candace Egan has been named the Best Screenplay Winner of the May, 2023 Wiki Screenplay Contest. The Best TV Pilot and Best Short Script Winners have also been announced. Updated: 06/11/2023

Atlanta Film Fest Screenplay Winners

The Atlanta Film Festival has announced their 2023 Screenplay Contest Winners. Updated: 06/11/2023

Shore Scripts Names Short Film Fund Finalists

Fifteen finalists have been selected for Shore Short Film Fund. Two Grand Prize Winners & the Top 5 Finalists will be announced on June 14th. Updated: 06/02/2023

StoryPros Awards Contest Names Quarterfinalists

StoryPros has announced quarterfinalists for the 16th StoryPros Awards Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 06/01/2023

Family Friendly Peer Review Names Contest Winners

Craig Clyde's The Christmas Notes has named the Best Screenplay of the Spring, 2023 Family Friendly Peer Review Screenwriting Festival. Updated: 05/24/2023

Wiki Announces April, 2023 Contest Winners

Cul de Sac by Baruh Benjamins has been named the April, 2023 Best Screenplay winner of the Wiki Screenplay Competition. The Best TV Pilot and Best Short Script Winners have also been announced. Updated: 05/16/2023

Killer Shorts Names Screenplay Contest Winners

'97 by Sarah Ward has been selected from nearly 1,033 entries as the Grand Prize Winner of the Killers Shorts Screenplay Competition. MERROW by Alexander Seltzer has been selected as the 2nd Place Winner; and COOKING LESSONS WITH BABA YAGA by Julia Diddy has been selected as the 3rd Place Winner. Updated: 04/24/2023

Wiki Screenplay Names March Contest Winners

St. Catherine's Boys by John Ravitz has been named the winner of the Best Screenplay Award for the March, 2023 Wiki Screenplay Contest. The Best TV Script and Best Short Script winners have also been announced. Updated: 04/15/2023

Santa Barbara Screenplay Awards Names Winter Contest & Diverse Writer Award Winners

The Santa Barbara Screenplay Awards has announced results for their Winter, 2022-23 Screenwriting Contest, as well as the winners of their Diverse Writers Outreach, celebrating writers with diverse and under-represented minority perspectives. Updated: 04/03/2023

Stowe Story Labs Announces Finalists

Stowe Story Labs has announce the 2023 Bellem Entertainment, Final Draft, Film Fatales, Law Firm Of Stacey A. Davis, Nyx Horror Collective, Maven Screen Media, Page International Screenwriting Awards, Sagindie, Sidewalk Film Festival, Stowe Diversity, Studio Skyfire, And Tangerine Entertainment Fellowship Finalists to the 2023 Narrative Labs. Updated: 03/28/2023

CineStory Names TV Division Winners

Annie C. Wright, Alex Hanno, and Alex Blumberg have been named the Division Winners of the 2023 CineStory TV Retreat and Fellowship Competition. Each first place winner is now in the running for this year’s TV Fellowship, which includes a $1,000 cash prize, free tuition for this year’s TV retreat, and a 12-month mentorship with 2 Hollywood professionals hand-picked to help the Fellow advance their craft and career. Updated: 03/28/2023

Your Script Produced! Announces Season 3 Winners

Feature, Short Script, and TV Pilot winners have been announced for the 3rd Season of the Your Script Produced Screenplay Competition. Winners were announced in Screen, Variety, and the Hollywood Reporter. Updated: 03/15/2023

Your Script Produced! Announces Season 3 Finalists

Feature, Short Script, and TV Pilot finalists have been announced for the 3rd Season of the Your Script Produced Screenplay Competition. Updated: 03/15/2023

Wiki Contest Names February Winners

Richard Spong by Terry Luke Podnar has been named the winner of the Best Screenplay Award for the February, 2023 Wiki Screenplay Contest. The Best TV Script and Best Short Script winners have also been named.

Updated: 03/15/2023

Killer Shorts Names Top 10 Finalists

Killer Shorts has named their Top 10 finalists for both their Main and 1-Page Categories. The Top 3 winners will be announced on April 25th. Updated: 03/13/2023

CineStory Names 2023 TV Division Finalists

CineStory has announced their Original Comedy, Original Drama, and Original Sci-Fi TV division finalists for 2023. Updated: 03/09/2023

Scriptapalooza Alumni News

Updated: 03/07/2023

Killer Shorts Names Screenplay Contest Semifinalists

The Killer Shorts Screenplay Competition has announced their semifinalists from more than 1,000 submissions. Updated: 02/28/2023

TrackingB Names Feature Contest Winner

Spy Games, by Brian D. MacGregor, has been named the winner of the 2022 TrackingB Feature Screenplay Competition. The script is about a junior-level CIA documents and identity forger who is thrust into an uneasy alliance with a notorious double agent when she is suspected of a role in his deadly escape on the streets of London. Updated: 02/27/2023

Your Script Produced! Announces Season 3 Semifinalists

Feature, Short Script, and TV Pilot semifinalists have been announced for the 3rd Season of the Your Script Produced Screenplay Competition. Updated: 02/22/2023

ISA Announces Fast Track Fellowship Winners

The International Screenwriters Association has announced their Fast Track XVI Fellowship Winners. Updated: 02/20/2023

Wiki Screenplay Names January Contest Winners

Fatal Eclipse by Dermot Davis has been named the winner of the Best Screenplay Award for the January, 2023 Wiki Screenplay Contest. The Best TV Script and Best Short Script winners have also been announced. Updated: 02/16/2023

Killer Shorts Names Screenplay Contest Quarterfinalists

The Killer Shorts Screenplay Competition has their announced quarterfinalists from among more than 1,033 submissions. Updated: 02/14/2023

Scriptapalooza Announces TV Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza has announced their latest TV Pilot, Sitcom, 1-Hour Drama and Reality TV Contest Winners. Updated: 02/13/2023

American Zoetrope Names Contest Winners

Par 3 by Todd Scheiperpeter has been named the winner from among almost 2,000 submissions to the 20th Annual America Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 02/10/2023

Your Script Produced! Announces Season 3 Quarterfinalists

Feature, Short Script, and TV Pilot quarterfinalists have been announced for the 3rd Season of the Your Script Produced Screenplay Competition. Updated: 02/03/2023

Final Draft Names Big Break Grand Prize Winners

Final Draft has announced the Grand Prize Winners of the 2022 Big Break Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 01/27/2023

NYC Horror Film Festival Announces Screenplay Contest Results

THE MORBS by Greg Sisco has been named the winner of the 2022 NYC Horror Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. Head by Joseph Graham was named the Short Script Competition winner. Updated: 01/17/2023

Wiki Screenplay Contest Names December Winners

Margaret Morgan's The Davises has been named the Best Screenplay Winner of the December Wiki Screenplay Contest. The Best TV and Short Script winners have also been announced. Updated: 01/16/2023

CineStory Names TV Contest Quarterfinalists

CineStory has announced their Original Drama, Comedy, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy division quarterfinalists for the 2023 TV Retreat & Fellowship Contest. Quarterfinalists advance to the semifinalist round, after which there will be another round of judging to determine finalists and division winners. Division winners advance to another judging round to determine the 2023 TV Fellow. Updated: 01/14/2023

Sports Screenplay Championship Names Contest Winners

The International Sports Film Festival in Houston has named The Last Indian War by Michael Graf as the winner of their Sports Screenplay Championship. Updated: 01/13/2023

Santa Barbara International Names Fall Contest Winner

The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards Diverse Writers Outreach has named Tennessee Martin as the winner of their Fall, 2022 Screenwriting Competition, Updated: 01/13/2023

Final Draft Names Big Break Category Winners

Final Draft has announced their Feature and TV category winners for the 2022 Big Break Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 01/05/2023

Table Read My Screenplay Names Park City Grand Prize Winner & Finalists

Lindsey Galloway's The Last Queen's Painter has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the Park City, 2023 Table Read My Screenplay Competition. Updated: 12/30/2022

Kairos Prize Announces 2022/23 Semifinalists

The Kairos Prize, sponsored by The Timothy Plan and Movieguide® has announced the top 10 semifinalists for their 2022-2023 competition. The semifinalist screenplays will be sent to industry leaders for evaluation for the $15,000 grand prize winner. The top 3 scriptwriters will be invited to the Movieguide® Awards Gala and Report to the Entertainment Industry on Feb. 10, 2023, where the grand prize winner will be announced. Updated: 12/27/2022

Scriptapalooza Names Fiction Podcast Contest Winner

Denise Meyers' Letters from Home has been named the winner of the 2022 Scriptapalooza Fiction Podcast competition. She'll be awarded $1,000 along with a production of her podcast, which is about star-crossed lovers during World War II who fight to keep their relationship alive through impassioned letters, despite distance, forbidden secrets, and the siren call of new romance. Updated: 12/19/2022

Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards Names Fall, 2022 Contest Winners

John L. Prather's The Jesus Nut has been the Fall, 2022 winner of the Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards. The script is about a reviled college professor, a delusional homeless man, and a priest who loves strip clubs who embark on a journey to discover the century's greatest relic ... and, in the end, find themselves. The competition's TV Pilot and Short Script winners have also been announced. Updated: 12/16/2022

Wiki Screenplay Names November Contest Winners

James Nagel's Back2Good has been named the Best Screenplay Winner of the November Wiki Screenplay Contest. The Best TV and Short Script winners have also been announced. Updated: 12/12/2022

Scriptapalooza Announces PaloozaPodcast Finalists

PaloozaPodcast is a competition devoted to fiction podcasts. This is a relatively new field for writers to tap into and get their work produced. Industry recognized podcast companies judged the PaloozaPodcast submissions. The winning entry will have their podcast produced and receive $1000. The winner will be announced on December 19th. Updated: 12/11/2022