2025 Winners
Emerging Screenwriters Drama Screenplay Competition
Grand Prize Winner
Rough Surface by Tim Brennan
Top 10 Finalists
Eclipses by Gustavo Garzon
Forget Me Not by Kev Quaid
I Am the Storm by Sara Hallowell and Arabella Field
Lost by Victor Orel
Meteor by Alec Whittle
Or Worse by Rina O’Malley
Richard Spong by Terry Podnar
Rough Surface by Tim Brennan
The Floating of Hayes by John Woodard
The Language Of Wolves by Nan Schmid
Semi-Finalists
(I’ll Never Find) Another You by Michael Elliott
A Rodeo Renegade by Joseph Lawrence LaCroce
A Taste for Blood by Kevin Schwartz
Astrea: The Femme-Adventures of Aphra Behn by Mariah Anzaldo Hale
At the Deep End by Franck Benayoun
Better Angels by Gary Bickal
Between Heaven & The Heart by John Frederick
Black Death by Cam Smith
Brooke by Andrew Rogers
C.R.E.A.M. by Katrina Jaxson
Calvary by Dustin Martinson
Capital by Robin Fusco
Capra Nights by Julie Lawson Timmer
Concealed by Teal Greyhavens and Nikolai von Keller
Costa del Crime by Samuel Ellis
DEA by Peter Noel
Echoland by Alejandro Lalinde
Eclipses by Gustavo Garzon
Elysian Falls by Ragan Mozee
Far From Here by Matthew McLachlan
Ferocious by Dimitri Devyatkin
Finding Perry by John Ripper
Fires of Saint Sebastian by Tomek P Chenczke
Forget Me Not by Kev Quaid
Freedom Country by Raymond Cho
Freudian Slip by Stephenie Howard
Gyre by Gina Lennox
Hiding Places by Samuel Wilson
I Am the Storm by Sara Hallowell and Arabella Field
Japanese for Baseball by Ray Keller
Jingle Bell Rock by Curt Samlaska
Knockout by Josh Sackheim
Layovers by Jim Oyen
Les Blessés (The Wounded) by Bob Canning
Little Chicago by R. Carl Leech
Los Cubanos by George Perez
Lost by Victor Orel
Madrid Affair by Jeffrey van Davis
Mafia Prom Date by Michael Volpe
Merry Christmas Mister Claus by Jeremy Rigby
Meteor by Alec Whittle
Michigan Ave by James Ward III
Mier by Oliver North
Miracle Girl by Joy Sawyer
Money by James Schlicker
Moonshot by Michael Graf
No Olvidado by D B Roderick
No Princess by Nathan Ellis
Nokmim by Benj Austin
Oasis by Robert Hirsch
On the Run by David Simons
One Last Build in Centralia by Michael Klug
Or Worse by Rina O’Malley
Paradiso by Tyler Harvey
Pepperoni Please by Donald Molloy
Perception by Pauline McAlonan
Puzzle Box by Edward Ybarra
RageQuit by Sam Norman
Red Sky Country by Johnny Dunn
Reich by Ryan Peverly
Remedy by Till Silvio
Revolutionary Medicine by Kristen McNaule
Richard Spong by Terry Podnar
Rough Surface by Tim Brennan
Sacrifice by Daniel Broderick
Spoon by Erik Orjiako
String Lights by VP Boyle
Stringbean by Gary Gerson
Sundowning by Shay Michael
That’s Not My Problem by Sofia Furio
The Astrologer by Ray Keller and Richard Schmidt
The Baker’s Boy by Mark Brown
The Ballerina of Dresden by Ray Keller
The Burdizzo Method by Collin Frey
The Carters by Yaz Simpson
The Descent of the Murex by Susan Morero
The Devil’s Due by David Wickenden
The Everleigh Club by Stefanie Lyons
The Ferryman by Douglas Kearney and Paul Buckley
The Floating of Hayes by John Woodard
The Language Of Wolves by Nan Schmid
The Longest Goodbye by Michael Hopkins
The Nine by Katherine Griffin & Amanda Ladd
The Pipeline by Eric Murphy
The Prince of the Black Hand by Danny Range
The Right Kind of Wrong by Eric Murphy
The Royal We by Maggie Walters
The Show by Patrick McGrath
The Threads that Bind by Robin Neil Chambers
The Underboss War by David Ennocenti
The Woke Project by Ken Alozie
Tilt by James Sismanes
Turning Pointe by Bridget Bell McMahon
Undocumented Minors by Weiyang Liu
Unlearners by Casie Cook
We Came From Dust by Luis Saldias
When Angels Weep… by John McCarney
When Freemen Stands – Madman’s Thief by Randall Stanton
Where the Wolves Walk by Jake Plumeri
You and Me by Writestuff
Quarter-Finalists
(I’ll Never Find) Another You by Michael Elliott
A Burial at Sea by C Jeffery Evans
A Child of God by Robert Rosenbaum
A Good Day Will Come by Amir Zargara
A Massacre of Innocence by Douglas Raine
A Rodeo Renegade by Joseph Lawrence LaCroce
A Taste for Blood by Kevin Schwartz
All the Way Home by Danny Katz
Almost All American by Richard Winzeler
Anthem by Jose Manuel
Astrea: The Femme-Adventures of Aphra Behn by Mariah Anzaldo Hale
At the Deep End by Franck Benayoun
Behind the Hedges by Helene Forst
Belle Brezing by Margaret Price
Better Angels by Gary Bickal
Between Heaven & The Heart by John Frederick
Between These Walls by George Johnson
Black Death by Cam Smith
Bonnie and Hyde by Robert Tartell
Bookie of the Year by Lance Cartelli
Bracewater by Cynthia Crofoot
Brooke by Andrew Rogers
C.R.E.A.M. by Katrina Jaxson
Cage Trap by Richard Buzzell
Calvary by Dustin Martinson
Capital by Robin Fusco
Capra Nights by Julie Lawson Timmer
Child by Gregory Vines
Closure by Pete Comrie
Colt by Allen Sircy
Concealed by Teal Greyhavens and Nikolai von Keller
Conquer the World by Gary Champagne
Costa del Crime by Samuel Ellis
Credit Card by Kevin Ndango
DEA by Peter Noel
Dead Eye Dong by Jimmy Prosser
Decoy by Michelle Claase
Demons by Shiva Ramanathan
Devil’s Ridge by Callum Williams
Disco Demolition Night by Matthew Taub
Disposable by Michael Hood
Dom and Felix by Bridget Flanery
Don’t Weaken by Mike Ridge
Drake by Justin Lloyd-Williams
Echoland by Alejandro Lalinde
Eclipses by Gustavo Garzon
Elysian Falls by Ragan Mozee
En Route by Christine Chen
Enoch by Cory David Bortnicker
Ever, Oscar by Dianne Janis
Everywhere by Brandon Sikora
Far From Here by Matthew McLachlan
Ferocious by Dimitri Devyatkin
Finding Perry by John Ripper
Fires of Saint Sebastian by Tomek P Chenczke
Fly Boy Fly by Bob Hiltermann
Forget Me Not by Kev Quaid
Freedom Country by Raymond Cho
Freudian Slip by Stephenie Howard
Gnarled Gods by J R Dimuzio
Goldflesh by Aviad Shely
Grand Island by Leslie Gauthier
Gut Wrench by Edward Larkins
Gyre by Gina Lennox
Haha by Sophia Porter
Harper Lee and Me by David Dessauer and Don Thompson
Hiding Places by Samuel Wilson
How We Are by Brie Peterson
Hurt by Jaspaul Hothi
I Am the Storm by Sara Hallowell and Arabella Field
In Ottie’s World by David John Preece
In Sects by Alishan Valiani
In the Dark by Stefan Alexander
Ineffable Light by Marcus McGee
Inside Out by Jack Kearney
Insomnia Cafe by Jill Underhill
Iron Men by John Metzner
It’s What You See by Lisa Hickey
Japanese for Baseball by Ray Keller
Jingle Bell Rock by Curt Samlaska
Kara by Brian Cunningham and Taylor Ellis
Katherine and Spencer: A Love Story by Walt Alexander
Kirby in Limbo by Jamie Campbell
Knights of Wisdom: The Last Creation by Brad Cooper
Knockout by Josh Sackheim
Lackey Draft by Francis Rose
Last Leg by Kyle Thomas
Layovers by Jim Oyen
Legacy by David Blacker
Les Blessés (The Wounded) by Bob Canning
Little Chicago by R. Carl Leech
Longevity by Alister Austin
Los Cubanos by George Perez
Lost by Victor Orel
Love and Venom by Craig Peters
Loving the Spirit by Richard Carson Bailey
Low and Outside by Frances McCoy
Madrid Affair by Jeffrey van Davis
Mafia Prom Date by Michael Volpe
Meltdown by Eric J Lapp
Melvin in Joyland by Jordana Howard
Merry Christmas Mister Claus by Jeremy Rigby
Meteor by Alec Whittle
Michigan Ave by James Ward III
Midnight Highway by Jesse Harris
Mier by Oliver North
Miracle Girl by Joy Sawyer
Money by James Schlicker
Moonshot by Michael Graf
Moonville by Scott Marshall Taylor
Mountain Champs by Jerry Suits
Neverland by Charles Green
No Cowboy Required by Barbara Giannini
No Olvidado by D B Roderick
No Princess by Nathan Ellis
Nokmim by Benj Austin
O.S.H.A. Los Angeles by Larry Johnson
Oasis by John E. Jacobsen
Obeying Orders by Steve Walker
Odd Women by Caroline Ryder
Odesa by Katherine Davies
On Pins and Needles by Katie Jung
On the Run by David Simons
One Last Build in Centralia by Michael Klug
Or Worse by Rina O’Malley
Overwhelming Darkness by S A Hart
Painting Over Rust by Kevin James OBrien
Paradiso by Tyler Harvey
Pepperoni Please by Donald Molloy
Perception by Pauline McAlonan
Phrogger by Joel McElvaney
Pieces of You by Jack Warner
Pithead by Ben Waller
Precursor by Steve Brown
Puzzle Box by Edward Ybarra
RageQuit by Sam Norman
Rebuilding the Soul by Christopher Harmon
Recompense by Janelle Lee
Red Sky Country by Johnny Dunn
Reformation by Stephen Morgan-MacKay and Stefan Alexander
Reich by Ryan Peverly
Remain by Thomas Newman
Remedy by Till Silvio
Return to the Allagash by Jim Levi and Bob Harris
Revolutionary Medicine by Kristen McNaule
Richard Spong by Terry Podnar
Ring Rats by Susan Crisci
Road to Ruin by Brittney Coon
Rough Surface by Tim Brennan
Round Trip by John Laurence
Sacrifice by Daniel Broderick
Sam and The Rabbit by John Anselmo
Shut Eye Revival by John Kestner
Sideshow Bandit by Marie Wilson
Sideshow by Bruno Derlin
Solving the Puzzle by Laura Joan McCallister
Somniarch by Ben Monaco
Spiral by Hannah Garfield
Splinter by Andy Maycock
Spoon by Erik Orjiako
Square Love in a Round Hole by Pete Whiting
Stonegate by Maryann Beckman
String Lights by VP Boyle
Stringbean by Gary Gerson
Summer of ’04 by Traian Toma
Sundowning by Shay Michael
T I S S U E S by Hanna Allelign
Take It to the Streets by Eric Pannell
Take My Life by Larry Collins
Targets by Rick Lucas
That’s Not My Problem by Sofia Furio
The Abyssinian by L E Coleman
The Age of the Empath by Steve Brown
The Amen Sisterhood by John Doble
The Astrologer by Ray Keller and Richard Schmidt
The Badland by Josh Smith and Tate Smith
The Baker’s Boy by Mark Brown
The Ballerina of Dresden by Ray Keller
The Barracuda Alchemist by Myles Yaksich
The Blue Engine by Sean O’Connor
The Burdizzo Method by Collin Frey
The Carters by Yaz Simpson
The Dark Season by Steve Clune
The Descent of the Murex by Susan Morero
The Devil’s Due by David Wickenden
The Everleigh Club by Stefanie Lyons
The Fault Line by Larry Collins
The Ferryman by Douglas Kearney and Paul Buckley
The Final Mission by Claudia OBrien
The Fitz by Mike Guerrini
The Floating of Hayes by John Woodard
The Fourth Psalm by John Martins III
The Godson by Garymerl Koeppel
The High Tide by John Saveland
The Iditarod Band by Michael Meyers
The Lady Doctor by Tony Barone
The Lake Monster by Deanne Devine
The Language Of Wolves by Nan Schmid
The Live I’ve Made by Patrick Hayes
The Longest Goodbye by Michael Hopkins
The Next Black Man in Beverly Hills by Michael Eric Ross
The Nine by Katherine Griffin
The Open Air by Stacey Russell
The Pipeline by Eric Murphy
The Place Between Our Lives by L Clay Callender and David Ellard
The Prince of the Black Hand by Danny Range
The Right Kind of Wrong by Eric Murphy
The Royal Executioner by Marshall Ferrin
The Royal We by Maggie Walters
The Secret Ministry of Grass by Richard Turner
The Settlement by Eric Schabla
The Sharpshooter Blues by Todd Sandler
The Show by Patrick McGrath
The Singing Sergeants by Christopher Harris
The Snow & Shade by Wayne Middleton
The Tape by Douglass Robertson
The Threads that Bind by Robin Neil Chambers
The Trial of Roman Weinzapfel by John O’Leary and John William
The Underboss War by David Ennocenti
The Wall by Dominic Carver and Anne-Marie Caluwaert
The Woke Project by Ken Alozie
They Also Serve… by John McCarney
Tilt by James Sismanes
Time Away by RachelEllis Adams
To Kill a King by Riley Warmoth
Tranquility Lake by Alan Wade
Tribe by Faisal Qureshi
Turning Pointe by Bridget Bell McMahon
Under the Influence by Alan Barkley and Linda Barkley
Under the Texas Sky by Dan Southard
Undocumented Minors by Weiyang Liu
Undue Influence by Antoinette Nalle
Unholy Toledo by Mary Goldman and Tim House
United We Stand by Zephyr Quintain
Unlearners by Casie Cook
Vice Versa by Jason Lajoie
Walking in Iowa by Alex Murawski
We Came From Dust by Luis Saldias
What we Hide by Alexander Osman
What You Leave Behind by Christian Galanti
When Angels Weep… by John McCarney
When Freemen Stands – Madman’s Thief by Randall Stanton
Where the Wolves Walk by Jake Plumeri
Wide Awake by Sam Ellis and Zac Brazenas
Without a Guide by Jillian Lozano
Without Roots by Melanie Lang
Wrestling Giants by Cherri Douglas
Xing by Rosa Costanza
You and Me by Writestuff
Your Friend by Jason Kesse
