2023 Writing Contest – Winners and Honorable Mentions Announced!
The WriteMovies 2023 Writing Contest winners…
Meet our 2023 Grand Prize Winner: Zack Kahn, writer of CURVEBALL
Become the next Grand Prize Winner we pitch to the industry
We love working with a wide range of talented writers and taking their work out to the industry – if you’d like us to do the same for you, enter any of our current contests now! The final deadline is November 12th. To introduce you to last year’s Grand Prize Winner Zack Kahn, writer of CURVEBALL, and the work we’ve done with him to ready it for pitching, read on!
Zack Kahn was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and attended NYU Tisch Film School.
He started his career as a writer/director/producer at Nickelodeon and has since written for film, TV and promos with a focus on thriller/horror and comedy. He is also an actor that has appeared in numerous commercials.
Kahn has placed in Writemovies’ contest with 3 previous entries. “Curveball,” a high-concept thriller, is his first Grand Prize win.
Zack says: “Writemovies’ several rounds of development notes have been extremely insightful and helpful in enhancing the script and I’m eager for their team to expose the project to the appropriate eyeballs and ultimately facilitate production at the best possible home for this unique story.”
For your chance to follow in Zack’s footsteps and become the next Grand Prize winner, enter our 2023 Screenwriting Contest here today! Just $59…
2022 Writing Contest – Winners and Honorable Mentions Announced!
The WriteMovies 2022 Writing Contest winners…
WriteMovies Fall 2019 Screenwriting Contest – Winner Announced!
The last WriteMovies competition of 2019 – our 20th anniversary year – is over. It’s been a fantastic contest, with amazing scripts at every stage – but in the end, there can only be one victor. And today is the day that we announce the winner!
What is it that separates our winner from the rest? How do we make that decision? We’ve given our hints and tips in the past, but here’s a quick guide for all you screenwriters as you hone your craft…
- Come up with a concept that we haven’t seen before. Your script needs a unique selling point that will make people sit up and take notice!
- Grab us in the first ten pages. These are the most important pages of your script, your chance to make a good impression; make sure you don’t have a weak opening.
- Get us invested in your characters before hitting us with the action. We need a reason to care about the things that are happening – and that means we need to care about the people those things are happening to!
- Make sure you understand the basics before trying anything more complicated. The true masters of the craft know the fundamentals inside and out, and often the best scripts are the ones that implement do the simplest things well.
These are all things we’re looking for when judging – and the things that guided us when making our decision this time around as we picked… the WriteMovies Fall 2019 Screenwriting Contest winner!
| Winner | ||
MONGER,David Axe |
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| 2nd Place | 3rd Place | |
THE PINCH,James Raynor |
HAVENWOOD,Jai Brandon |
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| Honorable Mentions | ||
| GHOSTED, WITH LOVE, Bob Canning |
BREAKING POINT, Christina Ward |
ROCK’N’BISCUIT, Craig Miller |
| THE PAPER ROUTE, Danny Howell |
MINDSET, Edward Smythe |
HOLLYWOOD WOMAN, Jesse Lopez |
| CODE.7390, Johnny Gilligan |
SUNSHINE STATE: DUENDE, Kai Thorup |
WHEN NIGHT AWAKENS, Ken Paiva |
Spring 2019 Screenwriting Contest – Winners Announced!
It’s one of the most exciting moments of the year for us here at WriteMovies… Yes, it’s the moment we get to announce the winners of our most recent competition: the Spring 2019 Screenwriting Contest!