WriteMovies Spring 2026 Screenwriting Contest

We no longer accept checks due to issues with fraud. Please use the PayPal options when participating. Please ensure you can send AND receive payments via PayPal.

There are no physical items deliverable under our services – all reports will be provided by email in standard document formats.

Each entry is entitled to submit a free redraft before the final deadline. Only one redraft will be accepted.

Each script entry will receive a feedback sheet about the script’s first ten pages, except if commissioning Studio Coverage or Development Notes which instead provide a longer, more detailed report on the whole script.

With entries submitted close to the Final Deadline, we cannot guarantee to provide feedback before the close of the contest, but the entrant is still welcome to submit a redraft before the contest closes.

Once a project has been processed, there is no refund.

Any cancellations must be requested within 48 hours and before any public announcement of winning entries.

Entries MUST have a cover sheet/titlepage with contact info in order to be considered.

By submitting to any of our writing contests or consultancy packages…

you are accepting our TERMS AND CONDITIONS (see below) and PRIVACY POLICY (click here).

“By Submitting work to WriteMovies, I agree:

1. To the accuracy of the information provided.

2. That the material submitted is my sole and original work and that I own all rights to it.

3. To my holding WriteMovies and all those involved in it, harmless from and defends them against all claims demands, losses, costs, damages, judgments, liabilities and expenses (including attorney’s fees) arising out of or in connection with any and all claims of third parties, whether or not groundless, based on any stories submitted to the competition or on any screenplay developed out of such stories.

4. That I recognize that WriteMovies and those involved in the competition to which this submitted entry pertains, may have access to, and/or, may have created, or have commissioned, through some other independent source, or may have otherwise acquired, literary materials and concepts, similar to the material submitted hereunder, in theme, idea, plot, format, or in any other respect. I agree that I will not under such circumstances, be entitled to any compensation, nor consideration of any kind, through the use by WriteMovies of any material so acquired. The ownership of any literary work submitted shall remain vested in the author until otherwise assigned by contract.

5. That should I be one of the winners, I grant WriteMovies the exclusive right to submit my material to as many studios, production companies, and agencies as seen fit, for a period of one hundred and fifty days from the announcement of the competition winners. I also grant WriteMovies the right to use my name, as well as the title and synopsis of my submitted material, in all publicity and promotional activities related to the competition. I also grant WriteMovies the right to contact me to provide me with contest updates.

6. That the burden of obtaining copyright or otherwise protecting any proprietary interests in the material rests entirely with me.”