Shore Scripts TV Pilot Mentorship Program
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 TV & Feature Programs
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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:
- An A-List Showrunner revealing exactly what it takes to land – and keep – that coveted staff writing job
- A top Development Executive at a major studio sharing insider strategies for pitching a series that sells
- 1:1 mentorship with working TV writers who were once in your shoes and have made the leap to the professional ranks
- Agents and Managers pulling back the curtain on how to find (and sign with) the right representation for you
- 1:1 personalized guidance from our Writer Development Manager, delivering honest, actionable career feedback tailored to your goals
- And more!
Deadline/Entry Fees
Expired. Previous Deadline: 06/29/2026WinningScripts Pro $5 Off Coupon
Notification: QUARTER-FINALISTS – AUG 26TH;SEMI-FINALISTS – SEPT 10TH;WINNERS – OCT 7TH.
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 Scrybe 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 2026 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 TV & Feature Programs
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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 TV & Feature Programs
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Shore Scripts Names TV Mentorship Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2026 Shore Scripts TV Mentorship Competition in both the one-hour and half-hour categories.
One-Hour Quarterfinalists
(in alphabetical order by writer’s first name)
A.C. Cole, SHOW THEM ALL
AJ Thames, Dark Waters in Timmonsville
Amarik Singh Khosa, Blind Tiger
Andrew Moorehead, Riptide
Andy Romero, The Lottery Liar
Aneel Ahmad, Stop the boats
Annabel Zammit, COINING IT
Arielle Egozi, SHOE MONEY
Ayanna Ziegler, BLOOM
Barbie Ross, Healthy Lies
Brian J Leitten, Red State
Brianna Boynton & Maddie Wheaton, Holler Girls
Cam Smith, HELLFIGHTER
Conor Ibrahiem, Avarice
Courtney Graham, NOBODY’S HORSES
D.M. Harring, Jinx
Daina Livingstone, Behind the Bar
Denise Deegan, YOUNG DOCTOR SULLIVAN
Eric Rosa, Motel of Miracles
Eve Ledbetter, Latched
Georgia Tombs, The Other Shoulder
Gibran Saleem, Re-Entry
Hector Coles, Runners
Helen Rana, Hunt for the Hare
Iain Mclellan, Dannemora
Jacqueline Xerri, Foriegn Bodies
Jamie Williamson, Lakeland Rising
Joey Johnsen, Kweenz
Joshua Rebell, Provenance
Julie Korogodon, The One Anothers
Karen McDermott, Lebensborn
Kasim Hardaway, Picture Perfect Pilot
Katherine Cronyn, Sin City Alchemy
Kenyetta Raelyn, CREAM
Kevin Clark-Ryan, 2 Beams
Kit Modica, The Curse of the Second Star
Kristin Walrod, Ocean Crest
Lauren Delisle, Moving Barges
Lillie Gardner, Safe with Me
Lynette Willoughby, Foule Blood
Mak Deezal, Valerie August
Meemee Taylor, THE VESSEL
Michael Hood, $10 Fortune
Michail Eggelhoefer, Hung Over
Olukayode Oladeji, Lion Poachers
Phil Pirrello, Bad Medicine
Ripley Barnes, COYOTE & CROW
Robert Flowers, Welcome to Stillwater
Salvatore Sbrocca, Heavy is the Crown
Sarah D’Ambrosio, Bloom
Sarah Marsh, Pieces & Parts
Sean Roth, Up and In
Silma Berrada, The North Side, Cookout
Soo-jin Kim & Joseph Abruquah, Burn
Spencer Pickles, Corsair
Stan Jones & Paul Jones, Desertopia
Sydney Blackburn, The Attendant
Sylvia Caminer & Luke Dimyan, THE SOLOMON SAGA
Tamara Geyer, THE CENTER
Tamika Lamison, Black, White & Blue: Rising Sun
Tom Kelsey, Coronach
Tyler Pagan & Benjamin Engebretson, We Come in Peace
Wayne Hazle, The Clinic
Half-hour Quarterfinalists
(in alphabetical order by writer’s first name)
Adam Edgar, Getting Out
Alex Rubin, Latecomer
Anabel Barnston, Ctrl/Repeat
Avalon Penrose, Refractory
Bobby Semelsberger, Happy Time Fun Land
Brian J Leitten, Offspring
Caitlin Cronenberg, Germaphobe In a Sex Club
Chance Wellnitz, Prime Time
Charlotte Huang, Savior Complex
Corey Mandelzys, The Songs of Chigaro!
Devi Snively, The Temp
Diane Vu, I’m Just Here to Make Friends
Dillon Miller & Bradley Miller, Gaytown, USA
Gabriel Giacoppo, KYLA – PILOT
Gibran Saleem, Chip Chunk
Gordon Carrick, First, Do No Harm
Grace Kasemeier, These Are My Witches
Jameel Shivji, Ali’s World Famous Halal Cart
James Doherty, CALL OF THE VOID
John Tsakonas, Belinda Heart Biter
Jon Cooper, Westbridge Weirdos
Jonny King, Cancelled
K. Broch, Tomás King
Kario Marcel, LAtte
Kate Lester, Flop
Kate Sharp, Dirty Work
Lia Romeo, Dating the Devil
Louis Roggeman, Sport’s
Marisol Romero, Family Practice
Maryam Castillo, Chronically uncomfortable
Minki Kim, The Crunch
Najy Kamal, The Haus of Mirth
Nick Cofino, Under Control
Nikki Palumbo, LIL ITALY
Paulo Carneiro, Body & Soul
Puja Rios, InPanic
Qaseem Fazal, What’s Normal Anyway?
Rohan Sudan, Kittenfish
Sailesh Naidu, I Don’t Belong Here
Sebastian Hunt, SERVED
Spencer Pickles, Journo
Steffany Sommers, RIAN COUNTRY SAFARI
Trace Pope, A Little Death
Updated: 08/26/2026
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 TV & Feature Programs
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