2023 Winners

Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Screenplay Competition

Grand Prize Winner

Finalists

(Alphabetical Order by Title)

Baker’s Dozen by Michael Gossette
Bullet Drop by Katarina Severen
Heart of Stone by Bre Fowler
Relocation by Warren Clarke
Reverse by Carlo Carere and Erin Carere
Running the Asylum by Richard Garry
The Greenbriar Ghost by Sarah Kennedy
The Guardians by Don Broida
The Scam by Chelsea Kania
Who Killed William Desmond Taylor? by Nate Washburn

Semi-Finalists

(Alphabetical Order by Title)

86*d by Matt Stein
As Scared as You by Jesse Dorian
Baker’s Dozen by Michael Gossette
Bethlehem Born by Pablo Torroella
Bleedthrough by Tammy Klembith
Blight by Lex Levin
Bloodbath by Patrick Tierney
Bullet Drop by Katarina Severen
Caught a Body by Red Davis
Chasing the Dark by Mike Bencivenga
Cold Readings by John Fitch III
Copperhead Connection by Greg Beck
Dark City by Simon Bowler Khan
Death’s Door by Ted Asma
Demon in the Mountain by Ryan Christiansen
Emerald Green by Sal Baldenegro
Every Other Animal by Alexander Hernandez-Maxwell
Fragments by Jake Moses
Heart of Stone by Bre Fowler
Hunted by Zachary Redmond
In Time of War by Sam Collins
Just Gone by Justin Daab
Night in Fog by Jeff Harman
Obsessed by Carlos Galinho Pires
Out of Nowhere by Mike Bencivenga
Poachers by Todd Bronson
Relocation by Warren Clarke
Reverse by Carlo Carere and Erin Carere
Rise Up Little Girl by Matthew Avant
Running the Asylum by Richard Garry
Scapegoat by Richard Geiwitz
Secret Fires by J.P. Riehle
Silver by Joseph Murillo
Still’s Life by Duncan Putney
Taoist Report by Cherry Yoko
The Chosen Ones by Paul Sheridan
The Greenbriar Ghost by Sarah Kennedy
The Grint by Earl Thompson
The Guardians by Don Broida
The Healer by Lonas Taylor
The Last Wife by Kevin Mellon
The Lowest Deep by John Fitch III
The Lutetia Paradox by A.J. Ferrara
The Scam by Chelsea Kania
The Suicide Pond by Daniel Noy
There Is a Season by Stuart Creque
Valley of Secrets by Matt Curtsinger
Who Killed William Desmond Taylor? by Nate Washburn
Winter Solstice by Armand Arekian
Zephyr Hills by Audrey Hackett

Quarter-Finalists

(Alphabetical Order by Title)

#DevilsCourt by David Draper
86*d by Matt Stein
A Dangerous World of Possibilities by Phillip Hardy
A Haunting Performance by Warren Clarke
A Small Temporary Inconvenience by Cleve Bailey and Jack Isgro
A Trail of Diamonds by Roopal Badheka
A True Crime by Tom Knoblauch and Will Forget
As Scared as You by Jesse Dorian
Baker’s Dozen by Michael Gossette
Believers by Antonia Roman
Bethlehem Born by Pablo Torroella
Between Worlds by Leon Masters
Bleedthrough by Tammy Klembith
Blight by Lex Levin
Blood, Scum & Neon Lights by Brett Howard Nelson
Bloodbath by Patrick Tierney
Bullet Drop by Katarina Severen
Cancelled? by Thomas L. Ferguson
Caught a Body by Red Davis
Chasing the Dark by Mike Bencivenga
Cold Readings by John Fitch III
Conviction by Lee Chambers
Copperhead Connection by Greg Beck
Countess by Matt Taylor
Cryptids by Joseph Murillo
Dark City by Simon Bowler Khan
Death’s Door by Ted Asma
Demon in the Mountain by Ryan Christiansen
Devotion by John Ellis
Dust on Dirt by Adele Smaill
Emerald Green by Sal Baldenegro
Every Other Animal by Alexander Hernandez-Maxwell
Explosion at Black Tom! By James Saunders
Fog by Cody Tucker
Fragments by Jake Moses
Full Contact by Dave Kraft
Girl in the Window by Candace Hilligoss
Heart of Stone by Bre Fowler
Hunted by Zachary Redmond
In Self Defense? by Michael Elliott
In Time of War by Sam Collins
Just Gone by Justin Daab
Killing Time by Steven Joseph Shank
L.O.B.E. by David Hunter Fein
Margo and the Monster by Don Famularo
Murphy by Zack Balmat
Night in Fog by Jeff Harman
Night Must Fall by Jennifer Weber
Obsessed by Carlos Galinho Pires
Out of Nowhere by Mike Bencivenga
Pepper’s Ghost: See and Believe by Jean Dempsey
Poachers by Todd Bronson
Prayers of an Atheist by Tomislav Kluiser
Psicramento by Denis Memedoski
Relocation by Warren Clarke
Reverse by Carlo Carere and Erin Carere
Rise Up Little Girl by Matthew Avant
Running the Asylum by Richard Garry
Scapegoat by Richard Geiwitz
Secret Fires by J.P. Riehle
Segment by Kay Ownbey
Silver by Joseph Murillo
Squid Jiggers by Judi Blaze
Station 17 by Matt Thompson
Still’s Life by Duncan Putney
Sympathy for the Devil by John Alarid
T.I.N.A. (There Is No Alternative) by Richard Morell
Taoist Report by Cherry Yoko
The Breaking by Nako Adodoadji
The Chosen Ones by Paul Sheridan
The Dirty Blonde by Sven Anarki
The Fat Lady Sings by Russ Meyer
The Gene Pool by Jennifer Weber
The Greenbriar Ghost by Sarah Kennedy
The Grint by Earl Thompson
The Guardians by Don Broida
The Healer by Lonas Taylor
The Last Wife by Kevin Mellon
The Legend of Yakatutch by Sean Francis Ellis
The Lowest Deep by John Fitch III
The Lutetia Paradox by A.J. Ferrara
The Means by Nic Cohen
The Pickleball Killer by James Carroll
The Red Key by Paul Sheridan
The Roach King by Scotch Rutherford
The Scam by Chelsea Kania
The Suicide Pond by Daniel Noy
Theatre of Death by James Saunders
There Is a Season by Stuart Creque
Theseus by Afonso Henrique
Too Free to Live by Michael Graham
Trade by Nathaniel Houk
Truth or Dare by William Zide
Valley of Secrets by Matt Curtsinger
Viewing by John Fitch III
Wanagipi by Jodie Anders
Whatever Happened to Emmeline? By Nicole Schubert
Who Killed William Desmond Taylor? by Nate Washburn
Winter Solstice by Armand Arekian
Zephyr Hills by Audrey Hackett