Screenplay Contests Directory
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Fee Colors:
Feature Fee
Teleplay Fee
Shorts Fee
Open for Submissions:
Jan 19, 2025
Final Deadline:
Mar 8, 2025
$75
$75
$75
Winners Notified:
Mar 31, 2025
Hollywood Genre's industry partners, each with years of experience in produced genre projects, are actively seeking for the best undiscovered Sci-Fi screenplays.
Ready to submit your most polished sci-fi spec?
Submit to the Hollywood Genre SCI-FI Screenplay Contest before the final deadline passes!
Ready to submit your most polished sci-fi spec?
Submit to the Hollywood Genre SCI-FI Screenplay Contest before the final deadline passes!
Open for Submissions:
Nov 10, 2024
Out on Bail:
Mar 1, 2025
$79
$79
$79
Hung Jury:
Mar 22, 2025
$85
$85
$85
Final Deadline:
Apr 12, 2025
$89
$89
$89
Winners Notified:
May 3, 2025
Festival and screenplay contest celebrating the best of indie crime and horror.
Scripts in the crime and horror sub-genres juggle genre-awareness, often times in order to subvert the expected, with natural talent and a unique voice. We aim to spotlight the voices of tomorrow's classics.
Winners will be considered by:
ZERO GRAVITY
BLOOD LIST / BRILLSTEIN
THINK TANK
TXL FILMS
... and more.
The top three screenplays also receive 4 months of free listings on InkTip!
Scripts in the crime and horror sub-genres juggle genre-awareness, often times in order to subvert the expected, with natural talent and a unique voice. We aim to spotlight the voices of tomorrow's classics.
Winners will be considered by:
ZERO GRAVITY
BLOOD LIST / BRILLSTEIN
THINK TANK
TXL FILMS
... and more.
The top three screenplays also receive 4 months of free listings on InkTip!
Open for Submissions:
Jan 31, 2025
Early:
Feb 28, 2025
$40
$40
Regular:
Mar 31, 2025
$50
$50
Final Deadline:
Apr 30, 2025
$60
$60
Winners Notified:
Jun 15, 2025
The StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest - an open competition recognizing 16 winners with $25,000.00 in cash and prizes, including guaranteed reads and other invaluable industry promotion! Past winners and contestants have garnered reads, gained representation, and optioned or sold their scripts! Will you be next?
Open for Submissions:
Jan 24, 2025
Spring:
May 1, 2025
$55.00
$0.00
$35.00
Regular:
Jul 1, 2025
$60.00
$0.00
$40.00
Late:
Sep 1, 2025
$70.00
$0.00
$50.00
Fall:
Oct 1, 2025
$75.00
$0.00
$60.00
Final Deadline:
Nov 1, 2025
$85.00
$70.00
Winners Notified:
Dec 20, 2025
VISIONFEST is an annual online screenwriting competition evolving from what began in 2001 as VISIONFEST: THE OTHER FESTIVAL (commonly referred to as VF) and founded by the Domani Vision Film Society LLC, an organization dedicated to bringing you tomorrow's visionaries... today. The Screenwriting Competition accepts feature length and short screenplays in all genres for a chance to win cash prizes, commemorative certificates, and more... Top winning feature script gets $1k cash prize - winning short $350 cash!
