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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.