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Industry Insider Television Writing Contest
Some of today’s most exciting storytelling happens on the small screen. From dramas like Homeland, Mad Men and Breaking Bad to comedies like The Big Bang Theory and Modern Family, television has evolved to become the writer’s realm, where the most talented scribes rule season after season. Sound like a dream job? Then get ready for your chance to break in to the dynamic world of writing for TV! The Industry Insider Television Writing Contes...
Screenplay Replay Contest: Where Your Winning Script Gets a Publishing Deal
In today's competitive script marketplace, adaptation is king. From The Hunger Games to The Help to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, an incalculable number of blockbuster scripts started their lives as successful books. So why not give your own spec screenplay a second life as a novel? Screenplay Replay is an international competition calling for submissions of complete full-length screenplays in any genre. From these entries, one lucky win...
Closed Contests
Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest - Todd Garner
UPDATE 11/17/12 Yesterday, winner Paul Boyer paid the Writers Store a visit, before he headed off to his lunch meeting with Todd Garner at The Ivy and a meeting at Benderspink. We can't wait to hear about how his big meetings went! UPDATE 9/28/2012 The 15-page submissions from the finalists are now available for download! Do you have what it takes to be one of our next finalists? Read these pages to see what set these finalists apart from...
Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest - Randall Wallace
UPDATE 11/26/12 The fifth round of the Industry Insider Screenwriting Competition took place in the fall of 2012, bringing in almost 1,000 entries that were eventually narrowed down to 10 Finalists. We are happy to be able to share with you the First 15 Pages of the Finalists' scripts based on Randall Wallace’s logline: “A soldier returns from an 18-month deployment and finds that the family home is missing- even the address no longer exist...
Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest - Robert Mark Kamen
UPDATE 11/5/12 "The Disciple Program" tops 2012 Bloodlist Just in time for Halloween, Tyler Marceca's thriller "The Disciple Program" has been voted to the top of the 2012 Blood List. "(The)Disciple Program" sparked a bidding war back in May, when Universal beat out Warner Bros. for the project. Mark Wahlberg is attached to star and produce with Steve Levinson; Morten Tyldum ("Headhunters") is attached to direct. - Variety October 31, 2012...
Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest - Allan Loeb
UPDATE 11/1/2011: The second round of the Industry Insider Screenwriting Competition took place in the summer of 2011, bringing in almost 1,000 entries that were eventually narrowed down to 10 Finalists. We are happy to be able to share with you the First 15 Pages of the Finalists' scripts based on Allan Loeb's logline: "A group of married men desperate for one last bachelor party invents a long-lost friend who’s about to be wed, but things...
Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest - Simon Kinberg
UPDATE 7/1/2011: "I was incredibly impressed with the scripts, both the quality of the writing and the original takes on the concept. They really feel like movies." - Simon Kinberg The first round of the Industry Insider Screenwriting Competition took place in Fall of 2010, bringing in almost 1,000 entries that were eventually narrowed down to 10 Finalists. We are happy to be able to share with you the First 15 Pages of the Finalists' scr...
Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest - Edward Saxon
UPDATE 5/21/13 Top 10 Finalists: Paul Littell, "Chasing Dakota" Rowayton, CT T.N. Lewis, "Daylight's End" Spring, TX Peter Force, "Megan Time" Auckland, New Zealand J.L. Newman & J.A. Mayfield, "Forecast" Hayden, AL Jordan Trippeer, "Coke and Converse" Los Angeles, CA J.R. Phillips, "The Badlands: Dead Girls Don't Cry" - Woodland Hills, CA Nicole Tersigni, "Yellow" Glen Ellyn, IL Jonah Heller, "Oh Great Love" Blue Ridge, GA Dav...
Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest - Susannah Grant
UPDATE 4/15/13 The sixth round of the Industry Insider Screenwriting Competition took place in the winter of 2012, bringing in almost 1,000 entries that were eventually narrowed down to 10 Finalists. We are happy to be able to share with you the First 15 Pages of the Finalists' scripts based on Susannah Grant’s logline: “A New England matriarch with a week left to live pledges her fortune to whoever in her small town fulfills her dying wish...
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