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Humanitas Names New Voices Semifinalists

Humanitas has announced the semifinalists for their 2021-22 New Voices Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 07/19/2021

Scriptapalooza Announces Fellowship Winner

Sean Slater has been named the winner of the 2021 Scriptapalooza Fellowship for his script, Long Live John Africa!. Updated: 07/18/2021

Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge Names Top 5 Scripts

The Top 5 Feature and 60-Minute Pilots have been announced for the 2021 Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge. Updated: 07/14/2021

Wiki Contest Names June Contest Winners

In My Brother's Image by Eugene Pogany/Tamas Harangi, has been named the June, 2021 Wiki Screenplay Contest Winner. Alia Zeid's Monster Carnival was named the month's Best TV Pilot while Killergarten by Chris Fell was named the best Short Screenplay. Updated: 07/14/2021

Scriptapalooza Names Short Script Contest Winners

Jarrod Lowski's Deepspot has been named the winner of the Scriptapalooza Short Screenplay Competition. Updated: 07/13/2021

Your Script Produced Names Season 2 Winners and Season 3 Judges in VARIETY

Your Script Produced has announced their Feature, Short, and Pilot Script Competition Winners in a large advertising spread in VARIETY Magazine. The contest has also announced judges for the upcoming 3rd Season of the Competition. Updated: 07/11/2021

Golden Script Competition Announces 2021 Golden List

The Golden Script Competition has named the Golden List of 2021, comprised of the best 15 features, 9 TV pilots, and 6 short scripts of the year. With consent of the writers, the Golden List scripts are made available to partners of the competition, as well as to creative executives, producers or directors. Updated: 07/10/2021

Scriptapalooza to Produce Missing in America Documentary

Many Veterans upon their return from the war suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome, and many died forgotten, their cremains lying unclaimed on basement shelves for decades. This Scriptapalooza produced documentary will bring to light the efforts of one group to find and memorialize them. Updated: 07/08/2021

Golden Script Competition Announces 2021 Winners

The Golden Script Competition has named their 2021 Feature, TV, and Short Script Competition Winners. Updated: 07/05/2021

StoryPros Awards Contest Winners Announced

Minotaur by Tim Auld has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 14th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 06/16/2021

Shore Scripts Names Film Fund Winners

EL VALS (THE WALTZ), by Alycya Magaña has been named the winner of the Shore Scripts Film Fund $15,000 Grand Prize Production Grant. Updated: 06/14/2021

Wiki Screenplay Names May Contest Winners

The James Hemmings Story by C. Joab Davis has been named the Wiki Screenplay Contest Winner for May, 2021. The Best TV Pilot and Best Short Script results have also been announced. Updated: 06/11/2021

Houston International Sports Fest Names Contest Winners

Blue Ball by Bruce Dundore has been the named the winner of the Houston International Sports Film Festival Screenplay Competition. Updated: 06/10/2021

StoryPros Names Awards Finalists

StoryPros has named the finalists for their 14 Annual StoryPros Awards Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 06/09/2021

Shore Script Names Short Film Fund Finalists

Shore Scripts has named the 15 finalists for the Spring Season of their Short Film Fund competition. Updated: 06/02/2021

StoryPros Awards Names Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced the 14th Annual Story Pros Awards Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 06/02/2021

StoryPros Awards Names Quarterfinalists

The 14th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest has announced their quarterfinalists. Updated: 05/26/2021

BlueCat Announces 2021 Contest Winners

Astray by Faizan Kareem has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2021 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. The Feature, Pilot, Short, and Fellini Award Winners have also been announced. Updated: 05/19/2021

Inroads Fellowship Names Season 4 Winners

Time Janitors, by Ryan Manns and Jocelyn Manns, has been named the overall winner of the Fourth Season of the Inroads Fellowship. Updated: 05/18/2021

BlueCat Names Contest Finalists

BlueCat has announced their 2021 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script finalists. Updated: 05/12/2021

Killer Shorts Names Contest Winners

THIS HUNGER by Alessandra Jara Del Castillo has been selected from more than 950 entries as the Season 2 Grand Prize Winner of the Killer Shorts Screenplay Competition. COPY CAT by Vanessa Branch has been selected as the 2nd Place Winner; and HIDE YOUR CRAZY by Austin Kase has been selected as the 3rd Place Winner. Updated: 04/26/2021

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

BlueCat Names Semifinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2021 Feature, Pilot, and Short Script Semifinalists. Updated: 04/13/2021

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.

Updated: 03/15/2021

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

Fresh Voices Names Semifinalists

Fresh Voices has announced 97 quarterfinalists for their 2020/2021 Screenwriting Competition, representing the top 7% of total entries received. Updated: 03/04/2021

Your Script Produced Announces Season 2 Finalists

Finalists have been announced for the 2nd Season of the Your Script Produced Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 03/02/2021

Killer Shorts Names Horror Screenplay Semifinalists

The Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition has announced their 2021 semifinalists, representing approximately the top 5% of all submissions. Updated: 03/01/2021

Scriptapalooza TV Names Contest Winners

Winners and finalists have been announce in the Pilots, Sitcoms, 1-Hour Drama and Reality Categories of the Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition. Updated: 02/15/2021

Shore Scripts Names Fiction Podcast Finalists

Finalists have been announced for the Shore Scripts Fiction Podcast competition. Winners will be announced March 5th. Updated: 02/15/2021

Killer Shorts Names Quarterfinalists

Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition has announced their 2021 Quarterfinalists, representing approximately the top 15% of all submissions. Updated: 02/15/2021

DUMBO Film Fest Names Screenplay Competition Winners

Revelations by Johnny Gilligan has been named the winner of the Feature Screenplay Competition of this year's DUMBO Film Festival. Updated: 02/12/2021

American Zoetrope Names Contest Winners

Poppy Luard's Careme has been named the winner from early 2,000 submissions to the 18th Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition. Finalists, semifinalists, and quarterfinalists have also been announced. Updated: 02/12/2021

Your Script Produced Announces Season 2 Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2nd Season of the Your Script Produced Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 02/10/2021

TrackingB Announces Contest Results

Wayworn by Jenna Cosgrove has been named the overall winner of the TrackingB TV Feature Competition. Updated: 02/06/2021

Write LA Competition Winner Signs with Management Company

Screenwriter Nathan Dame has signed with management company Fourward based on his success in the Write LA Screenwriting Competition. His comedy pilot, ‘Fraulein Schreiber’s Mixtape’ was selected in a year that saw a record number of entries. Updated: 02/05/2021

Your Script Produced Announces Season 2 Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2nd Season of the Your Script Produced Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 02/01/2021

Disney Names Writing Program Participants

Disney has announced the 13 writers who will be participating in its 2021 writing program. Updated: 01/28/2021

Fresh Voices Names Quarterfinalists

Fresh Voices has announced the quarterfinalists for their 2020/2021 Screenwriting Competition, representing the top 342 original screenplays from 1,323 submissions. Updated: 01/27/2021

CineStory Announces TV Division Finalists

Finalists have been announced for 2021 CineStory TV Fellowship. Finalists are invited to attend this year’s virtual TV retreat, with any remaining spots offered to division semifinalists and quarterfinalists. Updated: 01/27/2021

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.

Updated: 01/09/2021

Dumbo Film Fest Names Screenwriting Quarterfinalists

The Dumbo Film Festival in Brooklyn announced today the quarterfinalists for its 2020 Screenplay Competition, presented by Event Horizon Films. Each script was reviewed by working industry professionals at top rep agencies (ICM Partners, A3 Artists Agency, Gersh, etc.) and graded based on strength of plot, characterization, format, originality, style, dialogue, pacing and current market potential. Semifinalists will be announced January 16th. Updated: 01/05/2021

Which Screenplay Contests Should You Enter in 2021?

Screenwriting contests are not a one-size-fits-all affair. While there are obvious benefits to winning a huge and prestigious competition like the Nicholl Fellowships, smaller contests can be just as valuable if they hook you up with a judge who wants to option your screenplay, or a manager who wants to represent your work. Check out our annual round-up of some of the best competitions available in 2021. Updated: 01/05/2021

StoryPros International Names Contest Winners

Katterina Powers' Dog of War has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 14th Annual StoryPros International Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 12/16/2020

Shore Scripts Names Film Fund Winners

Shore Scripts has announced Two Bears, by Anthony Florez, as the winner of their 2020 Short Film Fund Competition. Updated: 12/14/2020

Golden Script Competition Announces Partnership with Emmy-Nominated Writer

The Golden Script Competition has announced a partnership with Jessica Sharzer, a three-time Emmy-nominated screenwriter, for the 2021 competition. Jessica Sharzer will read the 2021 winning TV pilot script as well as hold a 1-hour one-on-one masterclass with the winning writer via video call in July 2021. Updated: 12/12/2020

Shore Scripts Name TV Script Competition Winners

Shore Scripts has announced this year's 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV Pilot Competition winners. Updated: 12/10/2020

Shore Scripts Names Feature Screenplay Contest Winners

David Peterson's The Blind Sea has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Shore Feature Screenplay Contest. Updated: 12/10/2020

StoryPros International Announces Contest Finalists

StoryPros has announced the Finalists for the 14th Annual StoryPros International Screenwriting Competition. Winners will be announced December 15th. Updated: 12/09/2020

Golden Script Competition Partners with Paul Haggis

Winners of The Golden Script Competition will receive a reading and one-on-one masterclass with Paul Haggis. Updated: 12/03/2020

NYC Horror Announces Screenplay Finalists

The New York City Horror Film Festival has announced their Screenplay Contest Finalists. Short and Feature Script winners will be announced on December 8th. Updated: 12/02/2020

StoryPros International Announces Contest Semifinalists

StoryPros has announced semifinalists for the 14th Annual StoryPros International Screenwriting Competition.

Updated: 12/02/2020

Shore Scripts Names Short Film Fund Finalists

Fifteen finalists have been announced for the 2020 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Competition. Winners will be announced on December 14th. Updated: 12/01/2020

Shore Scripts Announces Feature & TV Finalists

Shore Scripts has announced their feature screenplay and 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV pilots finalists, representing the top 1% of all submissions this year. Updated: 11/25/2020

StoryPros Names International Screenplay Contest Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 14th Annual StoryPros International Screenplay Contest.  Semifinalists will be announced Tuesday, December 1st. Updated: 11/25/2020

HollyShorts Announces Competition Winners

HollyShorts has announced Mike Kearby as the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition for his screenplay, The Problem With Time Travel. The winner will be awarded a $10,000 Production Grant from Seattle Film Summit, and the completed film will screen at the 2021 HollyShorts Film Festival, and receive distribution on Bitpix. Updated: 11/15/2020

Shore Scripts Announces Feature & TV Semifinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their feature screenplay and 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV pilots semifinalists. Finalists will be announced November 25th. Updated: 11/10/2020

Write LA Posts Grand Prize Winner Live Read

Write LA has posted their live read of Grand Prize Winner Nathan Dame comedy pilot script, Fräulein Schreiber’s Mixtape. Updated: 11/09/2020

ScreamFest Names Contest Winner

Bloody Mary by Dan Ast and John C. Thursby has been named the Grand Prize winner of the 2020 ScreamFest Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 11/04/2020

Scriptapalooza Announces Screenplay Competition Producer Requests

Producers have requested to read a number of Scriptapalooza's 2020 finalists. Updated: 11/04/2020

RIIFF Names Contest Winners

Edward Balli from Canada won the Best Screenplay Grand Prize Winner for this year's Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) Screenplay Competition for his screenplay is entitled "Leadeth." Updated: 11/03/2020

AFF Announces Screenplay Contest Winners

The Austin Film Festival has announced their 2020 Script Competition winners. Updated: 11/02/2020

Shore Scripts Announces Feature & TV Quarterfinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their feature screenplay and 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV pilots quarterfinalists. Semifinalists will be announced November 10th Updated: 10/25/2020

HollyShorts Names Screenplay Finalists

Finalists have been announced from among more 1,000 submissions to the HollyShorts Film Festival. The top 3 screenplays will be announced/awarded during the HollyShorts Awards Ceremony on November 15, with the winning script receiving a $10,000 production deal courtesy of Seattle Film Summit. Updated: 10/24/2020

ISA Names Fast Track Fellowship Winners

The International Screenwriting Association has announced Robert Ripley (The Mender) and Danielle Nicki (The First White President) as their 2020 FAST TRACK XII Fellowship Winners.  Genre winners and finalists have also been announced.

Updated: 10/21/2020

Page Announces 2020 Contest Winners

The winners of the 2020 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition have now been announced, and this year’s $25,000 Grand Prize was awarded to Claire Tailyour for her haunting, evocative thriller MOTHER WILD. Updated: 10/15/2020

Austin Fest Names Script Competition Finalists

The Austin Film Festival has announced their contest finalists. 59 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: 10/14/2020

Scriptapalooza Interviews Top 3 Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza has posted video interviews with the top 3 winners of their 2020 Scriptapalooza Feature Screenwriting Contest. Updated: 10/11/2020

Filmmatic Names Comedy Contest Winner

Henry Sarwer-Foner & Noel Baker have been named the winner of the Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards for their feature screenplay, Dick 2.0, about a Wall Street billionaire facing a divorce who clones himself in order to save his marriage. When he sees how much more his wife loves his duplicate, he must battle his better self to win back his better half. Updated: 10/07/2020

Write LA Names Grand Prize Winners & Finalists

Fräulein Schreiber's Mixtape, by Nathan Dame, has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Write LA Screenwriting Competition. Finalist and semifinalist loglines have also been released. Updated: 10/07/2020

Table Read My Screenplay Names Contest Winners

But On Point by Marshall Gillson has been named the Feature/TV Pilot Grand Prize Winner of the Table Read My Screenplay Competition, while Kimberly Truong's The Ride was named the Grand Prize winner for shorts. Updated: 10/02/2020

Write LA Names 2020 Contest Finalists

Write LA has announced their 2020 contest finalists, who will each receive targeted promotion through Roadmap Writers extensive network of agents, managers, and producers. The Finalists will also get a free copy of Final Draft 11 courtesy of Final Draft and an additional screenwriting book courtesy of Michael Wiese Productions. Updated: 10/01/2020

Academy Names Nicholl Fellowship Winners

Five individuals have been selected as winners of the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. The fellows will each receive a $35,000 prize and be highlighted at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards and Virtual Table Read on Thursday, December 3, where an ensemble of actors will read selected scenes from the winning scripts. Updated: 09/30/2020

HollyShorts Announces Screenplay Semifinalists

The HollyShorts Film Festival has announced semifinalists from a record number of over 1,000 submissions to their 7th annual screenplay contest. Updated: 09/25/2020

Scriptapalooza Names 2020 Contest Winners

A Reindeer Story by Jay Michael Jorgensen & Lisa Juslin has been named the 1st Place Winner of the 2020 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 09/22/2020

PAGE Names 2020 Finalists

The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards has announced the top 10 Finalists in each of their ten genre categories. This year’s Finalists include writers from all across the United States and 14 foreign countries: Australia, France, Belgium, Spain, England, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Mexico, and Canada. Updated: 09/16/2020

Write LA Names 2020 Semifinalists

Fifteen semifinalists have been announced for the 2020 Write LA Screenwriting Competition. Each semifinalist will receive a free screenwriting book courtesy of Michael Wiese Productions, a phone call from head judge Tim Schildberger to discuss their scripts, and a professional logline polish from co-founder Angela Bourassa. Updated: 09/15/2020

Scriptapalooza Celebrates Top 30 Writers

Scriptapalooza has posted a video celebrating the top 30 writers in this year's Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 09/15/2020

Academy Names Nicholl Fellowship Finalists

The ten finalists for this year's Nicholl Fellowships have been announced. Updated: 09/14/2020

Finish Line Script Competition Names Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced in the Feature Screenplay and Television & Short Script Categories of the 2020 Finish Line Script Competition. Updated: 09/02/2020

Creative World Awards Announces Grand Prize Winner

Ross Mayberry's Sailing Off the Edge of the World has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Creative World Awards. Updated: 09/01/2020

Save The Cat Names Competition Winners

Save the Cat! has announced Thomas Steventon as the winner of their 2020 Screenwriting Competition for his script, Gaijin & Samson. The TV category winner was Tavyn Gentry's Tira'allara Updated: 09/01/2020

Scriptapalooza Announces Top 30 Screenplays

Scriptapalooza has announced their top 30 screenplays for 2020. Updated: 08/25/2020

Launch Pad Pilot Names Finalists

The Tracking Board has announced the Top 100 Finalists for their Launch Pad TV Pilot Competition. Updated: 08/15/2020

TrackingB Announces TV Contest Finalists

TrackingB has announced the five finalists for their 2020 TV Writing Competition. Updated: 08/14/2020

Scriptapalooza Names Short Screenplay Contest Winners

Clare Garner's The Canadian has been named the 1st Place Winner of the 2020 Scriptapalooza Short Screenplay Competition. Updated: 08/07/2020

Scriptapalooza Announces TV Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza has announced their TV Pilot, Sitcom, 1-Hour Drama and Reality TV Contest Winners. Updated: 08/04/2020

Scriptapalooza Names Fellowship Winners

Neal Wiser has been named the 2020 Scriptapalooza Fellowship winner for his script, Frankenstein Unleashed. Updated: 08/04/2020

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.

Updated: 08/04/2020

Writers Lab Names Participants

The Writers Lab for Women Screenwriters over 40 has selected the 12 participants for this year's Virtual Development Lab. Updated: 08/03/2020

Scriptapalooza Announces Semifinalists

Scriptapalooza has named their Top 100 Feature Screenplay Semifinalists for 2020. Updated: 08/01/2020

Creative Screenwriting Announces Semifinalists

Creative Screenwriting has announced the semifinalists in all genres for their Unique Voices Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 08/01/2020