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• - Offers cash prizes for spec scripts of existing television shows.
  
• - Independent film production company offering $25,000 in prize money.
  
• - Annual Screenwriting Competition offers a $10,000 cash prize, plus promotion for the best thirteen scripts submitted.
  
• - More than $10,000 in prizes. Presented by the American Screenwriters Association and Writer's Digest.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A monthly contest for movie scripts offers the winner of the Grand Finals a $1,000 Treasury Bond and the certainty that the script will be produced as a movie.
  
• - 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.
  
• - All contestants must register as a member of the Screenwriters Community.
  
• - The winning script will be produced by Kaos Films to be exhibited in UK cinemas and entered into film festivals around the world.
  
• - A free monthly guide to competitions, script calls and other script opportunities in the UK and Europe. Subscribe to a monthly mail out or examine the web edition.
  
• - Offers a $1500 First Prize for superior craftmanship in screenwriting. Feedback is provided on all entries for an extra $20 fee. Deadline: May 15. Entry fees: $15 for short films; $30 for features.
  
• - Screenplays will go through three stages of scoring before a winner is chosen.
  
• - Script competition aimed to promote European writers. General information, deadlines, call for proposals, quotations from industry professionals, and contact details.
  
• - 1st place cash prize of $1,000 plus an all-access pass to the Nashville Independent Film Festival.
  
• - Features screenplay development, film production, script consultation and screenplay contests.
  
• - An annual search for the best screenplay in the world.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Dedicated to freedom of expression through the art of independent media.
  
• - The winner will be flown to LA for two days of meetings with agents, producers and studio executives. Sponsored by Niad Management and the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Entry fee: $50 for submissions received by December 31.
  
• - Seeks a short film script based on any book or story in the Bible. $2,500 to be won, plus possible use in a feature film.
  
• - Cash prizes, script notes and consideration from a legitimate management company, production company or agency.
  
• - Originated by the Chesterfield Film Company and co-sponsored by Paramount Pictures.
  
• - Competition dedicated to recognizing the writer's contribution to the motion picture industry.
  
• - Three finalists will receive one-on-one consultations with jury members at the awards event in Monterey County.
  
• - $5,000 bonus and round trip tickets each to 3 screenwriters chosen for this experience down in South Africa.
  
• - Annual teleplay and screenplay competition open to all writers worldwide.
  
• - Offers $10,000 in cash, plus $14,000 in other prizes. 85 Companies have requested the winners for their consideration. Final deadline: May 1,2003.
  
• - Annual screenwriters competition. 75 percent of the script's locations must be shootable in Nevada.
  
• - Annual horror film and screenplay competition. Finalists and winning horror screenplay finalists to be read by literary agents. 0ctober 17th - 20th.
  
• - Seeks a maximum 2,000 word treatment that tells all the story. Open to European Union screenwriters only. Two competitions are held each year.
  
• - The winning screenplay will be produced by Devilhawk Productions on a budget determined by the number of entries received. Entry fee: $50. Deadline: September 15, 2003.
  
• - Recognizes and promotes screenplays that significantly feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered characters and/or themes.
  
• - Competition to assist science fiction, fantasy, horror, and action-adventure screenwriters in becoming discovered by the film industry.
  
• - Information related to the Empire Screenplay Contest, including previous winners, innovations, successes, etc.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Indie-oriented competition aims to promote and support talented new writers.
  
• - Quarterly competition for all material registered with WriteSafe for public view.
  
• - An annual screenwriting contest, to find and promote talented new screenwriters, awards prizes in kind but not in cash. Entry fees are payable.
  
• - Elicits scripts which are suitable for either theatrical or television production and which tell a positive story about specific fundamental values.
  
• - Promises $50,000 in cash and prizes. Minimum entry fee: $40. Deadline: September 15.
  
• - Semi-annual competition that accepts pilots and spec scripts for sitcoms and one hour episodics.
  
• - Winners are submitted to the networks and production companies to help find them work.
  
• - The Warner Bros. Writers Workshop maintains an annual program geared towards helping aspiring television writers obtain representation and work.
  
• - Annual contest for independent screenwriters offers cash awards.
  
• - The winning screenplay will be produced, with the screenwriter sharing in the gross profits.
  
• - Annual contest offers $1,500 in prize money. Deadline: May 23, 2003. Entry fee: $50.
  
• - Spotlights screenplays with a budget summary of less than a million dollars.
  
• - Categories are original screenplays, half-hour and one hour television spec scripts, and half-hour and one hour television pilot scripts.
  
• - Cash awards and movie production options are offered to winners, last competition took place in 2003.
  
• - Spec Scriptacular TV Writing Competition. A television competition for TV episode and movie scripts and original pilot teleplays.
  
• - Cash prizes and industry exposure from the publishers of Fade In Magazine.
  
• - Competition aims to find and usher emerging talent into the Hollywood mainstream marketplace.
  
• - Held in conjunction with FilmMakers Magazine, the top 50 scripts will be considered for representation by the Radmin Company.
  
• - Original, television scripts, and film scripts are sought.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Open to all writers. At least one of the primary characters in the screenplay must be a positively portrayed gay or lesbian character.
  
• - Founded by Hollywood producers to discover talented new screenwriters who are currently working outside the Hollywood system, this contest awards $19,000 in cash, plus other prizes. Nine different categories are offered. Regular entry fee: $45. Regular de
  
• - 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. Final
  
• - Winners receive prizes including cash, screenwriting software, discounts on products, free script registration, or professional script analysis.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Bravo TV is producing a reality show documenting a contest for writers - they're looking for the next big sitcom. Entry is free but eligibility requirements are strict. The contest is limited to non-professional writers who are residents of the U.S.A. Dea
  
• - For all screenwriters who have at least one copyrighted feature length screenplay. Prizes include software and script consultation. 2001 competition winners announced.