Contests for Writers - Part One
| Contest Report Cards from MovieBytes |
| Through Judge-Coloured Spectacles: How to Win a Writing Contest |
| Choosing a Writing Contest |
| Contest Advice |
| Screenwriting Warfare -how to win contests |
| Nicholl Fellowship -The Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting program is an international competition open to screenwriters who have not earned more than $5,000 writing for film or television. Entry scripts must be the original work of a sole author or of exactly two collaborative authors. Entries must have been written originally in English. Adaptations and translated scripts are not eligible. Up to five $30,000 fellowships are awarded each year. |
| Moondance |
| Chesterfield Writer's Film Project - The Writer´s Film Project, based at Paramount Pictures, is one of the most prestigious screenwriting fellowships in the United States. The program was originated with the support of Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. |
| Austin Film Festival |
| Disney/ABC New Talent Development |
| Writer's Digest Contests - WD Popular Fiction Awards...The Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition...The Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards...Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition...Writer's Digest Online Chronicle Competition ...and more. |
| International Short Story Contest |
| Cynosure Screenwriting Awards |
| Screenplay ShootOut - In association with Benderspink |
| WritersWeekly.com's 24-Hour Short Story Contest |
| Clarke-Bradbury Science Fiction Competition |
| Peoples' Pilot Competition - This is the dawning of the era of YOU, THE NEW WRITER, with your unique vision. To help you sell your series, TV Writer.Com, the most successful television writing site on the Web, has created the PEOPLE'S PILOT COMPETITION. The rewards can be enormous. Your dream, on TV for all to see. With you as the producer/head writer...and collecting the salary that accompanies that job. And all you have to do is commit your dreamchild to paper. Only a few short pages containing the title of your series idea, the main thrust of the storyline or storylines, the characters, and the setting. That's right. This isn't a screenplay or teleplay contest. Television networks and cable channels don't buy series pilot scripts, they develop them with their creators and production companies and packaging agencies they trust. The winners of the PEOPLE'S PILOT COMPETITION will be working with Pendle View LLC, a new company actively looking for new series projects and new writers to work on them. The people behind Pendle View have developed 15 produced feature films and documentaries for Blue Rider Pictures, Artisan Entertainment, Showtime Networks, Hearst Entertainment, Trimark Pictures, ABC Family Channel, and others in the past five years, and are now branching out into TV series development. The company has over 30 projects in active development, with more on the way. Since the networks and cable channels have two pilot development seasons each year, two PEOPLE'S PILOT COMPETITIONS are held as well. One Competition runs from August 1 to December 1, so that the winners can be chosen in time for the pilot season that will begin the following February. The other Competition runs from February 1 to June 1 so that the winners can be chosen in time for the pilot season that will begin the following August. No matter who you are, no matter where in the world you live, this is YOUR chance to make television as good as you always thought it could be! |
| Spec Scriptacular Competition - The basic fact about the television business is that in order to get into it you, the writer, must have at least 3 great spec episodes written for existing shows. These episodes are your calling cards. They demonstrate that you have what it takes to write "on assignment." In other words, they show that your writing can meet the demands of a show's individual (we would never say "peculiar") style. As more writers work on spec scripts, the competition between them for Industry attention increases. That's why TV Writer.Com has decided to step into the fray with the Spec Scriptacular Competition. In the proverbial nutshell, TV Writer.Com aims to help you get your spec episodes, pilots, and even MOWs read by those who can buy or hire you - by giving your work the ultimate validity short of having been professionally produced. That validity is a Contest Win. The Spec Scriptacular has three categories - Sitcom, Action/Drama and Pilot/MOW/Special. The Sitcom category is for spec episodes of current (or very recent) broadcast and cable network sicoms, which are usually (but not necessarily) half-hour shows. The Action/Drama category is for spec episodes of current (or very recent) broadcast and cable network action or dramatic shows - including sci-fi shows, medical shows, cop shows, lawyer shows, dramedies, et al. These are usually one-hour shows, but this is also the proper category in which to enter any current half-hour action or drama series. The Pilot/MOW/Special category is for pilots of any length that you have written for your own prospective series regardless of genre, for any and all original spec TV movies, and for any and all original spec specials regardless of length. The People's Pilot has shown us that many of you have already written or are eager to write pilots for your own ideas. This is the contest and category in which to enter those pilots. The late, lamented People's Picture Show has shown us that many of you have already written or are writing feature screenplays that can fit into the MOW mold. This is the contest and category in which to enter those screenplays. |
| Grants & Awards for Poets and Fiction Writers |
| American Screenwriters Association International Screenplay Competition |
| Final Draft's Annual Big Break International Screenwriting Contest |
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