Shore Scripts TV Pilot Mentorship Program
Shore Scripts TV Mentorship

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171 Pier Avenue #145
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363
Web:
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv/
Email:
contact@shorescripts.com
Contact: Sarah Eagen, Director of Contests
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Objective
The Shore Scripts TV Writer Mentorship Program prepares writers to get staffed or have their pilot picked up, while offering behind-the-scenes looks at working on top TV shows. This isn’t your typical screenwriting contest! It’s a one-of-a-kind game-changing experience to level up your TV writing career.
TV WRITER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
This year, SIX winners will be invited to attend our 8-week TV Writer Mentorship Program where writers will meet over a series of sessions that will include meeting with:
- Showrunner Beth Schwartz (ARROW, SWEET TOOTH, DEAD BOY DETECTIVES)
- Dev Exec Duane Luu, Director of Drama Development at NBCUniversal
- Industry Leader Karen Horne, who ran the NBC and Warner Discover programs for over a decade
- 1:1 mentorship from TV Writers from YOUNG SHELDON, AVATAR:THE LAST AIRBENDER, SUPERMAN & LOIS, DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN
- Sean Charles, Development & Production Manager at AMC Networks
- David Katsman, Manager (Sugar23)
- 1:1 work with Shore Scripts' Writer Development Manager
- And more!
In an intimate, small group setting writers will get an insider’s look at what it’s really like to work in a TV writers' room, develop the pitch-perfect presentation to help them land rep and writing gigs alike, and get their most pressing questions answered with direct mentorship from established industry pros. Show More
Deadline/Entry Fees
Deadline | Date Days till: |
Entry Fee |
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Early | March 14, 2025 25 |
$50 (half-hour pilot); $55 (one-hour pilot) |
Regular | April 11, 2025 53 |
$60 (half-hour pilot); $65 (one-hour pilot) |
Final | May 16, 2025 88 |
$70 (half-hour pilot); $75 (one-hour pilot) |
WinningScripts Pro $5 Off Coupon
Notification: Jul 16th: Quarterfinalists;Aug 6th: Semifinalists;Sep 3rd: Top 10 Finalists;Sep 3rd: Winners.
Eligibility
Open to everyone! 1-Hr Scripts 40-65 pages. ½-Hr Scripts 20-35 pages.Rules
- ½-Hour Pilots should be within 20-35 Pages. 1-Hour Pilots should be within 40-65 Pages.
- Writers can exceed the recommended limits by up to 15 pages, with an additional fee of $1 per page.
- Please only submit the first episode/pilot of your TV series.
- Writers from all countries are welcome to enter. All scripts must be written in English.
- The script must be the writer’s original work. Adaptations are accepted but the writer must own all copyright. At no point will Shore Scripts ever have any rights over your work.
- All ages are welcome.
- Each writer, or writing team, may not have earned more than $50,000 in screenwriting fees in the preceding 18 months. This clause is in place to help us support emerging talent. (Contest & Fellowship awards and writing fees received outside of fiction screenwriting do not count toward this total).
- Please only include the Script Title on the cover page.
- You may enter a newer draft of an already submitted script. There will be a small additional fee as the script will be reread. You may re-enter your script through the Resubmission page.
- A writer can enter as many scripts in as many categories as they wish.
- If a script is optioned or purchased during the competition, then it will no longer be eligible for the contest.
- Scripts should be in standard formatting and submitted electronically as a PDF.
- We accept all genres, including animation. It’s absolutely fine if your script is a combination of multiple genres or sub-genres. If that’s the case, use the Coverfly Genre dropdown to indicate the main genre on your submission, and make a note of other Genres, and any other information you feel will be relevant to the reader in the Comment to Reader field.
- The winners consent to Shore Scripts using their name, script title, and any other relevant information for promotional purposes on their website. This will be used to inform other contestants and the media of the results.
- If Shore Scripts helps a writer gain representation, option, sell, or have his/her screenplay produced, then we are entitled to state this on our website and on any other platform, whenever we see fit.
- Shore Scripts staff and associates are ineligible to enter.
- The decision of Shore Scripts is final. By applying to this contest each participant agrees to hold Shore Scripts, our judges, and sponsors immune from any competition disputes, claims, liabilities, and expenses.
- By entering Shore Scripts, you authorize us to use any trusted third-party online, cloud-based, and email services and databases for hosting, managing, and/or sending/transmitting your submission file(s).
- If we see fit, we can extend the final deadline for the competition. (Please note that this has never yet happened).
FOR ALL THE RULES & FAQ: https://www.shorescripts.com/rules-faq/#tv-rules.
Awards
Comprehensive 8-Week TV Writer Mentorship Program for 6 Winners. This year, 3 winners in each ½ hr and 1-hour pilot category will win spots in our career-changing Shore Scripts TV Writers Mentorship Program. The Program will include weekly Zoom sessions over 8-weeks in the fall of 2025 where participants will have sessions with showrunners, development execs, mentors, agents and managers, and more.
Please see website for schedule and details!
Shore Scripts TV Mentorship

Contact
171 Pier Avenue #145
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363
Web:
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv/
Email:
contact@shorescripts.com
Contact: Sarah Eagen, Director of Contests
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Shore Scripts TV Pilot Mentorship Program

Contact
171 Pier Avenue #145
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363
Web:
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv/
Email:
contact@shorescripts.com
Contact: Sarah Eagen, Director of Contests
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Shore Scripts Names TV Pilot Quarterfinalists
Shore Script has announced their 2023 TV Pilot Competition quarterfinalists.
TV PILOT 1-HOUR QUARTERFINALISTS
(94 screenplays have progressed)
Aimiende Negbenebor Sela & Andrew Rubin: Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up!
Alan O’Brien: The Occult Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Alex Vickery-Howe: Gemini
Alicia Norman: Eaters
Alyssa Kramer: DALE: Keep Your Eyes Open
Amanda Cole: Thornfield
Amanda Prentiss: Black Caesar
Annique Arredondo: Scene Queen
Barry Leach: Same Old Tricks
Brandon Gale: Magneto
Brandon Shorter: The Experimenters’ Game
Bruce Buschel: Vial
Calum James: TWENTY7
Charlotte Balogh: Kill the LAX Bro
Chynna Williams: Blood Bond
Crystal Lee & Cheryl Neve: The Nightingale Tattletale
Danielle Tjoelker: Belladonna
David B. Guthrie: Nightfall
David Christopher Loya: Esperanza
Edmund Kelly: Enemies of Church
Elena Zucker: The Ten Plagues
Emily Friedman: The Pictures
Eric Williams: Rigged
Eugene Fuller: Let It Shine
Gabriel Brugni Da Cruz: The Harvest
George Gier & Emmett Overvey: The Twist
Georges Le Macon: Silvermane
Gregory Abbey: Shark
Gregory Field: Wearing the Flag
Heather Farlinger: The Lavender Panthers
Henry Spicer: Freaky Deaky
Hue Anthony: My Brother’s Keeper
Hugo Lasalle: Body Electric
Irene Jiang: The Extraordinary Disappearance of Morwenna Gray
J. D. Elliby: The Kingmaker
Jack Anderson & Sam Butler: Unexplainable
Jackie Lee: Martial Classes
Jade Maitre: Petrol Girls
Jamee Decio: Esperanza
James Rushbrooke: Afterglow
Janna Jilnina: The Three of Us
Jared Doles: Canvas 31
Jarod Backens: The Bubble
Jason Todd: ANTILLIA: Conquest Gold
Jay Tigers: Dirtbag Fantasies
Jessica Romagnoli: Kings of Saint Machan
Jo Harper: Tiger mum
Joe Wolff: Buntline & Cody
John Bensink: Corner of Crenshaw & Life
Johnny Gilligan: Alphastate
Jonathan Case: Chasing Starlight
Karly Thomas: Thirst Trap
Kate McMorran: Fateplay
Kris Hall: Red World
Liam Fitzpatrick: High Moon
Lorien Sekora: Sarah
Lorraine Flett: The Believer
Luis Cuenca: $ainthood
M. Rowan Meyer: New Cardiff
Mand Paskuski: Poppy Fields
Marie Jones: Those We Trust
Marine Mondelot: Eon
Mark Bowes: LIFE DURING WARTIME: Nowhere Fast
Mia Volta: Sunnier Climes
Michelle Muldoon: Ripper
Nancy Ostertag & Vaness Ruane: RADICALS: A Fearful Storm
Neiman Outlen: The Mighty Mind of Imani Strong
Nick Roth: Rumford
Oliver Woolf: Disco Inferno
Parker Whitmore: Eden’s Valley
Patrick Tierney: M&Ms
Paul Knox: Bailey House
Paul Land: Lim
Philip Enchelmaier: Rudy Champion and the Edge of the Earth
Rae Binstock: Butch
Raymond Urrutia: Boots
Ricardo Thompson: Trench Town
Rick Akins: Angels in Blue
Robbie Brown: Control
Ryan Bergeron: Slab City
Ryan Dellaquila: Humanely Human
Shiloh Creveling: The New World
Simon Foster: NightFall
Sophia Dienstag: Echo Falls
Stephen Scarlato: Trespasses
Steven Hill: Red Omega
Stuart Creque: Asomnia
Tavish Gudgeon: Rats
Thandie Evans: Replacing Fear
Tim Kontje: Black Butterfly
Tom Burke: SAPPHIRE & SEQUOIA: Femme Fatales!
Tom Burke: SUNNY &TESSA: Pearls in The Jungle
Travis Seppala: Wytch
Zackery Harris: Gaysians
TV PILOT 1/2-HOUR QUARTERFINALISTS
(70 screenplays have progressed)
Adam Scott Mazer: Villain-Coded
Adrián Burke: Laughey Giraffey
Akevo Jenkins: Confessions of a Hitman
Alex Fitzgerald: Laughable Fears
Alyssa Kramer: TRIBUTE: Locket
Amy Depaola: Tiki Bar Funeral Home
Ana-Marija Stojic: Stefan
Andrea Ash: Foole
Andrew Vidgen: Grace
Andy Knuth: Mortified
Anna Kate Fahey: Techies
Annie Fick: The 6 Chick
Ava Sins: The Freaks of Laurel Creek
Avery Koenig: Cancel Me
Callie Waligora: She’s The Man
Carly MacIsaac: Kai and Kleo Kill Bill
Carly Silverman: The Apothecary’s Apprentice
Carrie Fishbane: Iris
Chris Watt: Southbank
Claude Stuart: Ship Show!
Daniel Sussman: BOOKED: Library Day
David Murphy & Ric Marble: The Right Track
Diouc Koma: The Reflection
Emily E. Ellis: Stuntwomen
Francesco Capussela: GIN-VERSE: A Ginless Bar
Guil Parreiras: TILL DEATH RIP US APART: Love Is Not a Dog from Hell
Jackson Hukari & Landon Laub: Lap of Luxury
Jacob S. Wydra: Have You Ever Tried Martian Coffee?
Janine Demaria: Stay
Jasmine Aziz & Dan McNeil: Here She Comes
Jeffery Richards: Backpackers Inc!
Joel Michalak: Re-Gifted
Kelly Roderick: Sword & Myth
Kimberly Gore & David Sanchez: CLiCK!
Lavar James: Guards
Lily Portman: Dosed Pilot
Luna Al-Kaisy: Student Debt
Madelyne Dhaliwal: Over My Dead Body
Maria Hinterkoerner: Young Agatha
Marty Johnson: In the Wings
Mary Von Aue: Greetings From The Floodgates
Matija Sraj: Queenmaker
Matt Michaud: Cross Country
Max Conroy: The Oracle
Michael Brennan: Jenkins and Watts: Paranormal Attorneys At Law
Mike Nielsen: Living Assisted
Miriam Sachs: Gal Pals
Mischa Webley: Hasaan Hates Portland
Natalie Bendheim: The Struggler
Nicki Lane: A-SPEC
P. A. Lopez: Cyberpink
Page Getz Ellinger: Stardrift Road
Pearse Lehane: Written Out
Phil Hamer: The Davieses
Robert Knoll: The Eye In Time
Rudi O’Meara: AMENDS: It’s All Gooooood…
Ryan O’Donoghue: Mom Crush
Samuel Sutton: The Megalomaniacs
Simon Pond & Joe Clabby: Shaky Town
Skylier Jones: THIEF: The Child, The Graves, and The Keeper
Sophia Dienstag: Bad Faith
Tapan Sharma: Indian Medium
Teri Shavoz: SHE.e.o
Tessa Flannery: Faire
Thomas Franey: Faithful
Tony Hendriks: Mystic Pictures
Victoria Bullock: 12 Steps To Becoming A Lesbian
Vikki Harris: Mom and Me
Will Clempner: My Father is Dead to Me
Will Nunziata: Forty-Licious
Updated: 08/26/2023
Shore Scripts TV Pilot Mentorship Program

Contact
171 Pier Avenue #145
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363
Web:
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv/
Email:
contact@shorescripts.com
Contact: Sarah Eagen, Director of Contests
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Feedback: |
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(4.5/5.0) |
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