With the final deadline for our Fall Screenwriting Contest on Sunday, we’re keeping a close eye on the state of the industry right now – we pitch ALL our winners to industry, so we need to know the lay of the land and exactly what execs are looking for.
2020 has been a tough year for a lot of people, but if there’s one thing that might help, it’s $3500 – which is the Grand Prize for our Fall Screenwriting Contest! With just one week until the final deadline, enter now for your chance to win!
WriteMovies is dedicated to helping writers, which is why we’ve upped the Grand Prize for this contest. But that’s not all that’s on offer. ALL our prizes are designed to help you out in your writing career and get your work out there!
In addition to the Grand Prize for the best script, the top three scripts all receive pitching to industry and script development from us. We want to see you succeed – and that’s exactly what our Fall Screenwriting Contest is here for. The top three receive:
Filming on former WriteMovies winner THE LIST
Recent winners have received attention from top industry execs such as producers of GET OUT and BLACKKKLANSMAN – if you want to join their ranks, make sure you enter now.
You can also enter by buying one of script reports, getting you the expert feedback you need to take your script to the next level – and then resubmit your new draft, completely FREE of charge, up until October 30th! Click here to see the script reports we offer, with Studio Coverage for $99 and more comprehensive Development Notes for $149.
The final deadline for the Fall Screenwriting Contest is this Sunday, October 11th. Don’t miss out! CLICK HERE to find out more and enter your script!
We’ve extended the deadline for our Horror Award until Sunday! We’re celebrating the contest with articles about our favorite films and TV shows in the genre. Find out what scares us the most… and what we’re looking for from a horror script! Next up: PSYCHO (1960)… (more…)
Keeping your finger on the industry’s pulse is important for any screenwriter, and there’s no better way to know what producers are looking for than to look at recent script sales from the last few months in 2020. Here’s our pick of recent script sales as reported by Script Pipeline.
Submit now! There’s only one week to go until the final deadline of the WriteMovies Horror Award 2020, with great prizes on offer including guaranteed pitching to industry and script development from our industry experts.
Given the current effects of the pandemic on the world, this is the perfect time to be writing horror, which can actually thrive under Covid-19 restrictions in a way that other genres can’t, making use of limited locations, small casts, and unusual concepts – and still deliver something emotionally powerful.
The winner will receive:
All submissions for the WriteMovies Horror Award 2020 also receive free, automatic entry to our Fall 2020 Screenwriting Contest, with the opportunity to win the Grand Prize of $3500 and many other bonuses (click here)! The winner of last year’s Horror Award, David Axe, was also our Grand Prize winner – enter now to find out if you can follow in his footsteps!
And you can also get free entry to both contests when you buy script feedback from us:
So don’t wait – with just 1 week until the deadline of the WriteMovies Horror Award 2020, there’s not long to go! Click HERE to visit the main contest page and submit!
The Grand Prize Winner of our Summer 2020 Writing Contest is a dramatic story that explores the ethics of journalists who do whatever it takes to the get the shot, and the impact it has on the lives of the subjects whose faces go viral: THE BOY ON THE COVER by Elizabeth Savage Sullivan!
2nd place in our Summer 2020 Writing Contest went to an action-adventure TV pilot based on a 1904 Penny Dreadful that created fiction’s first modern superhero: SPRING-HEELED JACK by Nicholas Horwood!