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Write/LA Names Grand Prize Winners

Jonathan Dillon's Artificial has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Write/LA Screenwriting Competition. The script is about an amnesia-ridden survivor of a pandemic virus who wakes up in a high-tech house being nursed by a mysterious woman. When her secrets begin to unravel, he must do everything he can to get out alive. Other Grand Prize winners include Jeff Patneaude's one-hour pilot Rogues, about a brilliant criminal's quest for vengeance, and Jenna Wycoff's half-hour pilot Vamp, about a recently windowed Latina mom faced with a rare blood cancer, who doubles down on her parental devotion by making a soul-sucking underground arrangement to extend her life, despite some eternal consequences.

StoryPros International Names Contest Winners

Southern Blood, by Lonas Taylor, has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 12th Annual StoryPros International Screenplay Contest.

New York Horror Fest Names Short Script Finalists

The New York Horror Film Festival has named their 2018 Short Screenplay Finalists.

Writers Lab Releases Participant Loglines

The Writers Lab, supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, has released the loglines of this year's twelve participant scripts.

Write/LA Names Contest Finalists

Write/LA has announced their 2018 Screenplay Contest finalists. The grand prize announcement will be made on December 15.

StoryPros Names Contest Finalists

StoryPros has announced the Finalists of the 12th Annual StoryPros International Screenplay Contest.

ScreenCraft Names Pilot Launch Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2018 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch competition. This year's jury is comprised of creative executives, coordinators and development heads at HBO, AMC andAmazon Studios, as well as a manager at3 Arts Entertainment and a story consultant for NBC's Writers on the Verge.

StoryPros Names International Screenplay Contest Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 12th Annual StoryPros International Screenplay Contest.

Shore Scripts Names 2018 Contest Winners

Jordan Presser's Hungry Man has been named the winning feature of the 2018 Shore Scripts Screenwriting Competition, while Galápagos by Lukas Hassel was the winning TV Pilot. Stephanie Bollag & Lily Lyor Askenazi won the Short Script competition with their screenplay, Esther In Wonderland.

New York Horror Fest Names Features Script Finalists

Finalists have been announced for the 2018 New York Horror Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.

Roadmap Writers Names JumpStart Winners

Max Rissman's Grandpa has been named the Feature Script Winner of the 2018 JumpStart Writing Competition, while Alan Baxter's Lost Eden Canyon has been named the Pilot Winner.

Scriptapalooza Names 2019 Fellowship Mentors

Scriptapalooza has announced the six individuals who will serve as mentors to the winners of the 2019 Scriptapalooza Fellowship.

ScreenCraft Names Action/Thriller Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced from among more than 700 submissions to the 2018 ScreenCraft Action & Thriller Screenplay Competition. This year’s jury is comprised of producers and executives at Appelles Entertainment, Bad Robot, Columbia Pictures, the Donners’ Company, a manager at Elevate Entertainment, and the screenwriter of Die Hard and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

StoryPros International Names Quarterfinalists

The StoryPros International Screenwriting Competition has announced their 12th Annual Contest Quarterfinalists.

Scriptapalooza Announces Producer Requests

Scriptapalooza has announced the list of producers who have requested to read the Scriptapalooza 2018 contest winners.

ScreenCraft Names Drama Contest Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been selected from among more than 1,000 submissions to the 2018 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Competition.

ScreenCraft Names Stage Play Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been selected from among nearly 700 submissions to the inaugural ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition.

ScreenCraft Names Short Screenplay Contest Winner & Finalists

The Rubicon by Aminah Hughes has been selected as the winner of the 2018 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay contest.

Write/LA Names Semifinalists

Semifinalists been announced for the 2018 Write/LA Screenwriting Competition.

AFF Names Screenplay Contest Winners

The Austin Film Festival (AFF) has announced their 2018 Screenplay Contest Winners in all categories.

Interview with ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner Davia Carter

Davia Carter was named a 2018 ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner on the basis of her TV pilot Double Time Dames, a one-hour drama set in the jazz age that tells the story of a brilliant female trumpeter who sheds her life of abusive men and attempts to start an all-female band as an Italian mob tries to stake their claim in her town.

Shore Scripts Names Finalists

Shore Scripts has announced their contest finalists. Winners will be named November 30th.

Poe Contest Names Halloween Contest Winner

The Poe Contest has to announced the winner of its one-day Halloween script contest. "Demon Inside Me," by Brandon Rutherford, captured the $100 cash prize and an automatic advancement to the Poe Contest semifinals.

ScreenCraft Names Pilot Launch Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2018 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch TV Writing Competition, selected from about 2,500 submissions.

Finish Line Script Competition Names Grand Prize Winner

Folklore by Sebastian Magiera has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Finish Line Script Competition. Set in 18th century colonial America, the script is about a Spanish priest and a cursed enchantress who band together to prevent malevolent supernatural forces from destroying the lives of helpless villagers.

Short Scripts Names Semifinalists

Shore Scripts has announced the semifinalists in their Feature, TV Pilot and Short Categories. Winners will be announced November 10th.

Interview with ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner Georgina Love

Georgina Love was named a 2018 ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner for her sci-fi feature Pig, which follows an experimental scientist as he raises a sentient pig as a mirror image of his terminally ill son. When the pig learns his "father's" plans have a sinister bent, he fights to resist the inevitable.

Roadmap Writers Names JumpStart Finalists

Roadmap Writers has announced the Top 10 Pilot and Feature Finalists for their 2018 JumpStart Writing Competition.

Scriptapalooza TV Producer Requests

Scriptapalooza has released a list of the producers that have requested to read their recent TV contest winners.

Write/LA Names Contest Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2018 Write/LA Screenwriting Competition. Semifinalists will be announced November 15.

Scriptapalooza Interviews TV Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza has posted video interviews with their 2018 television contest winners.

Shore Scripts Names Contest Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced in all four categories of the 2018 Shore Scripts Screenwriting Competition.

Interview with ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner Brock Newell

Brock Newell was named a 2018 ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner for his feature screenplay Ravenous, a fresh take on the cabin in the woods horror genre, about a man who invites his new girlfriend on a camping trip with his friends, only to realize that she's a cannibal who intends to kill them all. Brock graduated from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with a degree in Creative Writing, and has been living in LA for 10 years by way of Chicago.

ScreenCraft Names Drama Quarterfinalists

ScreenCraft has announced the quarterfinalists of their 2018 Drama Screenplay Competition, selected from more than 1,000 submissions.

ScreenCraft Names Public Domain Contest Winners

Yellow by Zara Meerza has been selected as the grand prize winner of the inaugural ScreenCraft Public Domain Competition. A pilot set at the end of the 19th century as the bitter rivalry between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst reaches a boiling point and "yellow journalism" is born.

ScreenCraft Names Horror Contest Winner

Burner by Mukilan Thangamani has been selected as the grand prize winner of the 2018 ScreenCraft Horror Competition. Drawing inspiration from Strangers on a Train, Maya uses a black-market phone app to kill her sexually abusive boss, only to find she must repay the favor.

2018 PAGE Award Winners Announced

The winners of the 2018 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards contest have just been announced, and the Judges have presented this year’s $25,000 Grand Prize to Kevin Bachar from New York City for his riveting action script TUNDRA KILL. In addition, Gold, Silver, and Bronze Prizes have been awarded to writers in ten different genre categories.

Finish Line Announces 2018 Semifinalists

The Finish Line Script Competition has announced the 67 semifinalists for their 2018 contest.

ScreenCraft Names 2018 Short Screenplay Semifinalists

ScreenCraft has announced their 2018 Short Screenplay semifinalists.

Scriptapalooza Posts Video Interviews with 2018 Contest Winners

Scripapalooza has posted video interviews with their 2018 Contest Winners Angela & Darren Croucher, Beth Ashby, and George Caine.

One-Day Halloween Screenplay Contest Announced

Submit your feature or short screenplay in The Poe Contest during the 24 hours of Halloween (October 31, your prevailing time), and you'll learn whether you've won our $100 cash prize in a week.

ScreenCraft Names Public Domain Contest Finalists

ScreenCraft has announced the top 10 finalists of their Public Domain Screenplay Contest, a competition that highlights Hollywood's longstanding tradition of adaptations based on free intellectual property in the public domain, such as folk tales, fairy tales, mythology and books and plays published before 1923.

Universal Writers Program Now Open for Submissions

The Universal Writers Program, designed to identity both up-and-coming and experienced screenwriters with unique points of view, is accepting entries through October 31, 2018. The only feature film program sanctioned by the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), the Program develops storytellers who organically incorporate multicultural and global perspectives in screenwriting.

Austin Fest Names Script Competition Semifinalists

The Austin Film Festival has announced the 2018 Script Competition Semifinalists, representing the top 2% of all submissions. They were chosen from a record field of 10,580 scripts entered in the AFF Screenplay, Digital Series, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions.

Academy Names Nicholl Fellowship Winners

Three individuals and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2018 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. The fellows will each receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Thursday, November 8, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

Scriptapalooza Names Contest Winners

Angela & Darren Croucher have been named their $10,000 Grand Prize Winner of the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition for their script, 1000 Beautiful Watts.

Finish Line Script Competition Names Quarterfinalists

The Finish Line Script Competition has announced their 2018 quarterfinalists, a mixed list of television pilots and screenplays.

Scriptapalooza Names Fellowship Winner

Lyn Pinezich has been named the Scriptapalooza Fellowship winner for her script Julie and Romeo, and will attend a Robert McKee STORY Seminar (hotel and airfare included).

2018 PAGE Awards Finalists Announced

The judges have now announced the Finalists in the 2018 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition, representing the Top 10 scripts in each of the contest's ten genre categories.

Stage32 Announces National Lampoon Search for Comedy Gold Finalists

Stage32 and National Lampoon have announced the Finalists for their "Search for Comedy Gold" Screenwriting Competition.

ScreenCraft Names Spring Film Fund Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for ScreenCraft's 2018 Spring Film Fund.

ScreenCraft Names Short Script Quarterfinalists

ScreenCraft has named the quarterfinalists for their 2018 Short Screenplay Competition.

Filmmatic Names Screenplay Award Winners and Finalists

Greg Mania has been named the overall winner of the Filmmatic Screenplay Awards for his script Mania, an edgy and brazen TV Comedy Pilot.

ScreenCraft Names Horror Semifinalists

ScreenCraft has announced the semifinalists for their 2018 Horror Screenplay Competition.

Scriptapalooza Announces TV Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza has named their TV Pilot, Sitcom, 1-Hour, and Reality TV Contest Winners.

CWA Names Contest Winners

El Camino de Milagros by Drew Mackinstosh has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Creative World Awards.

Writers and Filmmakers Announces Winning Script

Winning filmmaker Boris Schaarschmidt has selected Ryan Powell's Just a Hit of Garlic as the winning script in the lastest installment of the Writers and Filmmakers Competition.

ScreenCraft Announces Public Domain Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2018 ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Contest, which highlights Hollywood's longstanding tradition of adaptations based on free intellectual property in the public domain, such as folk tales, fairy tales, mythology and books and plays published before 1923.

Poe Films Names Burning Love Semifinalists

Poe Films has announced the 20 semifinalists for the 2018 Burning Love Screenplay Contest.

CineStory Names Feature Fellowship Winner

Travis Opgenorth has been named the winner of the 2018 CineStory Feature Fellowship for his script, The Poacher.

CWA Names Finalists

The Creative World Awards have announced their finalists for 2018:

Write/LA Names Industry Insiders

Write/LA has announced five industry insiders, each of whom will read one of eight finalist scripts and give the writer(s) written feedback.

Scriptapalooza Announces Short Script Contest Winners

Reflection 5, by Brian Dorman, has been named the winner of the Scriptapalooza Short Screenplay Competition.

ScreenCraft Names Spring Film Fund Quarterfinalists

ScreenCraft has announced their 2018 Spring Film Fund quarterfinalists, chosen from nearly two thousand applications.

PAGE Awards Names 2018 Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2018 Page Screenwriting Awards.

Scriptapalooza Names Top 30 Screenplays

The Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition has announced their top 30 screenplays for 2018.

CineStory Names Fellowship Finalists

Finalists have been announced for the 2018 CineStory Feature Retreat & Fellowship competition.

Scriptapalooza Announces Semifinalists

Scriptapalooza has announced the 106 semifinalists for the 2018 Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition. All 106 semifinalists will be promoted for an entire year.

ScreenCraft Names Horror Contest Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2018 Screencraft Horror Competition.

ScreenCraft Names Comedy Contest Semifinalists

ScreenCraft has announced the semifinalists for their 2018 Comedy Screenwriting Competition.

ScreenCraft Names Public Domain Quarterfinalists

ScreenCraft has announced the quarterfinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Contest, which highlights Hollywood's longstanding tradition of adaptations based on free intellectual property in the public domain, such as folk tales, fairy tales, mythology and books and plays published before 1923.

Writers Lab Names Retreat Participants

The Writers Lab, produced by IRIS and New York Women in Film & Television and supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, has announced their 2018 retreat participants.

Scriptapalooza Names Quarterfinalists

Scriptapalooza has announced the 481 quarterfinalists for the 2018 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition.

Table Read My Screenplay Names Hollywood Contest Winners

Stringer by Elaine Loh has been named the winner of the 2018 Hollywood Table Read My Screenplay Contest.

CineStory Names Semifinalists

CineStory has announced the semifinalists for the 2018 CineStory Feature Retreat & Fellowship competition.

ScreenCraft Names Sci-fi Contest Winners

Sandino Moya-Smith's Monster Hunter has been named the Grand Prize Winner from among over 700 submissions to the ScreenCraft Sci-fi Screenplay Contest. The script focuses on a father/son team of cryptozoologists tasked with finding the Loch Ness monster. The contest jury this year included development executives from 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures and United Picture Group.

Capital Fund Names Contest Winners

The Capital Fund Screenplay Contest has named their Contest Winners and "Hot 100" for 2018.

PAGE Announces 2018 Quarterfinalists

The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards has announced their 2018 Quarterfinalists, representing the top 10% of all entries in this year's contest.

Acclaim Announces Spring/Summer TV Contest Winners

Natural Law by Nick Marini has been named the winner of the Spring/Summer 2018 Acclaim TV Writing Competition.

ScreenCraft Names Comedy Quarterfinalists

Screencraft has named the quarterfinalists for their 2018 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest.

ScreenCraft Names Sci-Fi Contest Finalists

Ten finalists have been announced from among more than 700 submissions to the 2018 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi Screenwriting Competition.

BlueCat Names Contest Winners

Death of a Fool by Ismael Gomez III & Joe Leone has been named the winner of the 2018 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.

BlueCat Names Finalists

BlueCat has announced their 2018 Feature, Pilot, and Short Screenplay finalists. Winners will be announced Thursday, July 5th.

ScreenCraft Names Fellowship Winners

ScreenCraft has announced their 5th annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship winners. The program is designed to advance the careers of talented screenwriters through ongoing mentorship and introductions to key entertainment executives and talent representatives.

CineStory Annouces Quarterfinalists

CineStory has announced quarterfinalists for their 2018 Feature Retreat and Fellowship competition.

Austin Film Festival Announces Partners and Judges for Fiction Podcast Script Competition

In order to further expand their legacy of supporting storytellers, Austin Film Festival (AFF) is pleased to announce a distinguished panel of judges for its returning Fiction Podcast Script Competition, which includes development heads and creators of successful fiction podcasts such as THE BRIGHT SESSIONS and TUMANBAY.

ScreenCraft Announces China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship Winner

Craig Rosenthal has been named by Orb Media Group and ScreenCraft as the winner of the second annual China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship on the basis of his script #Cloudman.

StoryPros Names Award Winners

Christian Lybrook's City of Trees has been named the winner of the 11th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenwriting Competitition.

Scriptapalooza premieres new website, ventures into producing and announces Advisory Board

The Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition has dramatically updated their website, inserting all the movie posters they have been involved with over the years. Also, posting success stories of past winners, alumni and all the projects that have taken off since Scriptapalooza started in 1998.

Interview with ISA Fellowship Winner Sean Collins-Smith

Ever since graduating from film school in 2010, Sean Collins-Smith has wanted to move to Los Angeles to pursue a TV writing career. His goal seemed unobtainable, though, until he won an ISA Fast Track Fellowship on the basis of his pilots End of Life and Lifers Anonymous. As part of his ISA prize package, he scored a week of industry meetings and wound up signing with manager Jewerl Ross of Silent R Management. He'll be moving to Los Angeles in September.

Finalists Announced for 11th Annual StoryPros Awards

Finalists have been announced in all genres for the 11th Annual Story Pros Awards. Winners will be announced Friday, June 15th.

ScreenCraft Names Fellowship Finalists

ScreenCraft has announced the 25 Finalists for their 2018 Fellowship, selected from a submission pool of more than 2,100 entries.

BlueCat Names Quarterfinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2018 Feature, Short, Pilot-Hour and Half-Hour quarterfinalists.

Shore Scripts Names Short Film Fund Winners

Shore Scripts has announced Nora Kirkpatrick & Dennis McNicholas as the winners of their 2018 Short Film Fund. They'll be awarded a $10,000 grant to make their short film, Best Seller.

StoryPros Awards Names Semifinalists

Semifinalists have just been announced for the 11th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest.

ScreenCraft Names Sci-fi Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2018 ScreenCraft Sci-fi Screenplay Contest, representing the top ten percent of submissions received. The jury this year includes development executives from 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures and United Pictures Group. Winners will be announced July 6th.

Shore Scripts Names Short Film Fund Finalists

Shore Scripts has named their 2018 Short Film Fund Finalists.

StoryPros Awards Names Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 11th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest.

Blumhouse Productions Set to Produce Script from Shore Scripts Alum Louis Ackerman

Shore Scripts has announced that their 2015 Contest Winner, Louis Ackerman, has set up his horror/thriller script, Flesh & Blood with Blumhouse Productions.

Scriptapalooza Names Fellowship Mentors

Scriptapalooza has named its industry mentors, one of whom who will provide six-months of mentorship to the winner of the Scriptapalooza Fellowship. Four other writers will receive 3-months of mentorship.