A Feeding Frenzy: Screenwriting contest that offers feedback to all participants.
Acclaim TV: Original, television scripts, and film scripts are sought.
American Accolades Screenwriting Competition: Competition aims to find and usher emerging talent into the Hollywood mainstream marketplace.
American Cinema Foundation: Elicits scripts which are suitable for either theatrical or television production and which tell a positive story about specific fundamental values.
American Film Renaissance Screenwriting Contest: A contest seeking stories that reflect timeless American virtues. Judges include three Oscar-nominated screenwriters.
American Gem Short Script Contest: The winning screenplay will be produced, with the screenwriter sharing in the gross profits.
American Screenwriters Association Screenplay Competition: Annual full-length screenplay competition with $10,000 first prize and November 30, 2006 deadline.
American Screenwriting Competition: Promises $50,000 in cash and prizes. Minimum entry fee: $40. Deadline: September 15.
American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest: Offers a $5,000 grand prize. The top ten screenplays are considered for option by American Zoetrope and for representation by top agencies. Judged by Francis Ford Coppola. Reading fee: $40. Opens May 1. Deadline: September 1.
Art Within Labs: A Search for the Next Great Screenwriter of Faith: Annual contest offering year-long $10,000 screenwriting fellowships to Christian writers.
Bare Bones: Spotlights screenplays with a budget summary of less than a million dollars.
BlueCat Screenplay Competition: An annual search for the best screenplay in the world.
British Short Screenplay Competition: The winning script will be produced by Kaos Films to be exhibited in UK cinemas and entered into film festivals around the world.
Chesterfield Writer's Film Project: Writing competition open to all writers of fiction, plays, screenplays. Five winners will each receive a $20,000 fellowship, and spend 10 months completing 2 screenplays with the guidance of industry mentors. Sponsored by Paramount Pictures.
Cinescape's Genre Screenwriting Competition: Competition to assist science fiction, fantasy, horror, and action-adventure screenwriters in becoming discovered by the film industry.
Eerie Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition: An annual screenplay competition and film festival that takes place in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Fade In: Screenwriting Awards: Cash prizes and industry exposure from the publishers of Fade In Magazine.
Film Genesis: Script-to-Film Screenwriting Contest: Short script (11 pages or less) competition grants a $10,000 production budget to the winning entrant.
Filmmakers International Screenplay Competition Awards: Full-length screenplay competition with $4000 grand prize and representation consideration for the top 50 entrants.
FirstGlance Feature Screenplay Comeptition: The FirstGlance Screenplay Competition offers screenwriting contests for feature length and short scripts, with entry deadlines in late summer to early fall each year. $40,000 in prizes.
Gimme Credit Short Screenplay Competition: Short script (30 pages or less) competition that grants production to the grand prize winner. Three contests each year. Entry fees vary on length and time of submission ($9-$44)
Heat Productions: $5,000 bonus and round trip tickets each to 3 screenwriters chosen for this experience down in South Africa.
Hollywood 27: Independent film production company offering $25,000 in prize money.
Hollywood Gateway Screenwriting Contest: An annual contest provides a $5,000 cash prize in addition to a number of other benefits including transportation and accommodation in Hollywood, meetings with top agents and producers, plus submissions to over 70 agencies and production companies.
Hollywood Symposium: Features screenplay development, film production, script consultation and screenplay contests.
Monterey County Film Commission: Three finalists will receive one-on-one consultations with jury members at the awards event in Monterey County.
Nashville Screenwriting Competition: 1st place cash prize of $1,000 plus an all-access pass to the Nashville Independent Film Festival.
Nevada Film Office: Annual screenwriters competition in which 75% of the script's locations must be shootable in Nevada.
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting: An international competition, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, seeks original screenplays from writers who have not earned more than $5,000 for film or TV scripts. Up to five $25,000 fellowships are awarded each year.
One In Ten Screenplay Contest: A screenplay contest dedicated to the positive portrayal of gays and lesbians in film. $1000 first prize.
One Location Movie Screenplay Contest: A screenplay contest promoting the full-length character driven screenplay. First prize is $1000 and a one-year option for production.
Organization of Black Screenwriters: Categories are original screenplays, half-hour and one hour television spec scripts, and half-hour and one hour television pilot scripts.
Outfest: Recognizes and promotes screenplays that significantly feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered characters and/or themes.
PAGE International Screenwriting Awards: Founded by Hollywood producers to discover new screenplays by up-and-coming writers. Cash and prizes of over $25,000.
Pomegranate Pictures Screenplay Competition: A UK-based treatment and screenplay competition. Treatments are accepted on a monthly basis, with winners made eligible for the annual screenplay competition. Cash prizes.
River City Write Off: Short script contest that produces the winning script and gives the writer a producer credit.
Screamfest: Annual horror film and screenplay competition. Finalists and winning horror screenplay finalists to be read by literary agents. 0ctober 17th - 20th.
Screenplay Festival: Feature-length screenplay contest with industry exposure and $1000 grand prizes in five categories.
Screenwriter Showcase: An annual screenwriting contest, to find and promote talented new screenwriters, awards prizes in kind but not in cash. Entry fees are payable.
Screenwriting Expo Screenplay Competition: This annual competition is affiliated with Creative Screenwriting Magazine and the world's largest tradeshow for screenwriters, the Screenwriting Expo. Over $25,000 is offered in cash and prizes. Minimum entry fee: $40. Last deadline: August 15.
Screenwriting Showcase Awards: $10,000 in cash and prizes for full-length screenplays.
Script Magazine Open Door Contest: Cash prizes, script notes and consideration from a legitimate management company, production company or agency.
Script PIMP Writing Competition: Offers $10,000 in cash, plus $8,000 in other prizes. 203 companies have requested the winners for their consideration.
Script Savvy Screenplay Competition: Producers seeking scripts to buy and/or writers to hire. All contestants receive feedback. Winner is read by our producers and receives a cash award. Early deadline is August 1, 2006. Feature-length screenplay competition judged by independent producers. Feedback is guaranteed to all entrants, and a cash prize equal to 10% of entry fees is awarded to winners. Deadlines run late summer to early fall annually.
Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition: Annual Screenwriting Competition offers a $10,000 cash prize, plus promotion for the best thirteen scripts submitted.
Scriptapalooza TV: Semi-annual competition that accepts pilots and spec scripts for sitcoms and one hour episodics.
Set in Philadelphia Screenwriting Competition: Annual screenplay competition open to writers of screenplays set primarily in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. $10,000 grand prize.
Slamdance Screenplay Competition: Indie-oriented competition aims to promote and support talented new writers.
Spec Scriptacular Contest: Television competition for TV episode and movie scripts and original pilot teleplays. $8000 in prizes.
Split-Screenplay Contest: All contestants must register as a member of the Screenwriters Community.
TalentScout TV Writing Contest: Winners are submitted to the networks and production companies to help find them work.
The Austin Film Festival Heart of Film Screenplay Competition: Competition dedicated to recognizing the writer's contribution to the motion picture industry.
Warner Bros. Writers Workshop: The Warner Bros. Writers Workshop maintains an annual program geared towards helping aspiring television writers obtain representation and work.
WinFemme: Monthly and annual film & screenplay festival in Los Angeles. Winners receive staged readings and screenings in Hollywood on a monthly basis with top industry executives who discuss the artist's work.
WriteMovies.com Writing Competition: Offers a $2,000 cash prize (plus representation, and possible option money), plus submission of the top three entries to studios, production companies, and agencies in Hollywood.
Writer's Arc Screenwriting Fellowship: 10 week fall fellowship program focused on re-writing an existing script. $3,000 stipend for 5-10 winners.
WriteSafe Writing and Art Contest: Quarterly competition for all material registered with WriteSafe for public view.
