2017 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest Semifinalists Announced
by ScreenCraft on February 19, 2018
Listed below are the semifinalists of the 2017 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest, representing the top 12 percent of submissions received. Congratulations to the quarterfinalists and these writers, and thanks to all for entering. Stay tuned for the March 14th winners announcement here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages!
| 'Ware the Power | Jack Mulcahy |
| A Bicycle for Madeline | Chad Broughman |
| A Cane Thriller | Albert Kerns |
| A Case of Sympathetic Arthritis | Ron Charach |
| A Christmas Wish | Charlie Wetzel |
| A Seat at The Window | Herb Jordan |
| Absalom | Elaine Slater |
| Action and Reaction | Joel Doty |
| Akishita | Thomas O'Rourke |
| Anastasia | Valerie Getsinger |
| And Then There Were Three: 67 Letters to Sasha | Julie Fox |
| Angel of Death | P James Norris |
| Antithesis | Megan Smithurst |
| Attack From Within | Larry Powalisz |
| Awilda | Edward Medina |
| Before I'm Forgotten | Leanna Wilson |
| Billy Luck | DC Diamondopolous |
| Biography | Vinny Lopez |
| Black Phantom | James Wolf |
| Blackest Crow | Karen Wallisky |
| Blue Abyss | Jason Lerner |
| Bolívars | Suzanne Dottino |
| Breaking the Square | Jeff Shearer |
| C@k3 by the 0c3@n | Sydney Freedberg |
| Chef | Nina Smith |
| Compton's Cafeteria | William Polf |
| Conch Without A Shell | Lee Rohe |
| Corrections | Susan Kaye Quinn |
| Crepuscular | Bret McCormick |
| Crossing Over | Steven Cahill |
| Dear, Never Pickup Hitchhikers | Mal King |
| Deep in the Heart of Texas | Mathieu Cailler |
| Deja Vu | Peter Cawdron |
| Desolate Sea | SJ Bryson |
| Don't Turn Around | Samuel Frandino |
| Drill | Cady Vishniac |
| E113N | Jeremy Engelbrecht |
| Early Sunday Mornng | Mary Smth |
| Echo | Cameron Frank |
| Eleven Days | Michael Crump |
| Elizabethan Arms | Robert Baldwin |
| Etta Mae's Little Theory | Lori White |
| Farewell Old Neighborhood | Gerald Shovlin |
| Fembryo | John Wright |
| Fig Tree | D. Femme |
| Fight of his life | Jennifer Kent |
| Finding Phyllis | Jack Halliday |
| First Boats | William Cullen |
| French for Weakling | David Armstrong |
| Friendly Varmint | MK Bagwell |
| From Up on a Pedestal | Catherine Hotaling-Donnelly |
| Frosthammer | Bryan Todd |
| Gifted (Chronicles of the Imagination Series) | Annette Zoheret, D.Z. Adams |
| Girl at the End of the World | JP Sebastian |
| Glouston | Phillip Jones |
| Go Home | Sohrab Homi Fracis |
| Golem | Emi Cohen |
| Headlines | Omri Bezalel |
| Helena's Hope | Erik Wecks |
| Highway 111 | Mathieu Cailler |
| Home for the Holidays | Randee Dawn Kestenbaum |
| Honey and Cloves | Terrence Bennett |
| Hot Cockles | Rachel O'Hara |
| I Didn't Send My Regrets | Tia Levings |
| I Wanted Ten | Alle C. Hall |
| In My Mother's Voice | Martha Boose |
| In the Matter of Inca Ingalls | Craig Chapman |
| It's Personal | Kat Corbett |
| Jack Werrett The Flood Man | Rebecca Lloyd |
| Just Heaven | Sean McElhiney |
| Kitsune | Josh Bartolome |
| Knowledge 1975 | Margaret Ann Porter |
| La Sirène | Lawrence King |
| Life Like a Fair | Sandra Cropsey |
| Line in the Sand | Mathieu Cailler |
| Love | Deryn Warren |
| Loveoid | JL Morin |
| Marble Birds | Timothy Hendricks |
| Marching Towards Golgotha | Jordan Hill |
| Me and Bobby Snow | Carla Deterding |
| Missives from the Green Campaign | David Armstrong |
| Mom | Samuel Frandino |
| Mop Jockey | Michael Ayoob |
| Murder at the Playhouse | Harold Emanuel |
| Music City Two Step | James Moore |
| My Happy Years | Jann Else, Evlampia Demianeuk |
| No Bark, All Bite | Timothy Hobbs |
| Nobody Will Ever Love You | Anthony Howcroft |
| On Top of the World | Katherine Rooks |
| One Winter's Day in June | Stephen Willis |
| Oregon Grinder | Harold Bernard |
| Our Red Fish | Chris Amato |
| Out of the Box | Alison Juste |
| Pamela Jenkins | Michael Kramer |
| Panic Terror | Zoe Copeman |
| Parabnormal Sisters | DC Sayre |
| Park-and-Shop Karma | Sheila Martin |
| Petey Immigrates North, Then Moves West | Larry Menlove |
| Planet of Stones | David Beshears |
| Polish Day, Kennywood Park, June 6, 1969 | Don Narkevic |
| Pont de la Mouri | David Keffer |
| Provisions | Kira Lerner |
| Psycho Babbles | Alison Reeger Cook |
| Quick Study | Vance Cariaga |
| Rain of Terror | Valentina Reiken |
| Redemption | Sara Noë |
| Revenge of the Rabid, Killer Were-Possum | Mark Keigley |
| Seeds | Daniel Davis-Williams |
| Sex & Death | Thomas Thonson |
| Shining Like Pink Stars | Doug Peake |
| Shoot and Burn | Elisabeth Annacone |
| Slapstick Blues | DC Diamondopolous |
| Son, Brother, Patriot | Mark Sondrini |
| Spirit Dog | Jack Dann |
| Stalking Mattice Bowman | Amanda Lee |
| Stalled Symphony | Liesl Wilke |
| Syringe-Fed Ferrets | Samuel Martin |
| Tea for Two | Bev Bachmann |
| Terminus | Judith Dancoff |
| Thanksgiving | Jennifer S. Deayton |
| The Angel of Munitions | Roy Smythe |
| The Apple Fest Baking Queen of Marion County | Heather Weisberger |
| The Black Pearl Necklace | Ken Jones |
| The Caravan | David Beshears |
| The Corpse of Madeline Hill | Edward Medina |
| The Crème de la Crème | Chris Amato |
| The Desert Before Jerusalem | John Mizelle |
| The Devil and Charlie Barrow | Ronald Herron |
| The Dybbuk | Cady Vishniac |
| The EF76 Strain | Howard Dunkley |
| The Escape | Roshan Kalghatgi |
| The Ever Increasing Likelihood of Always | Martin Kalanda |
| The Family Unit | Laurence Klavan |
| The Former Things | Drew MacDonald |
| The Golden Arowana | Will Pei |
| The Kite Maker | Brenda Peynado |
| The Knotted Gun | Mary Vettel |
| The Last Wheel of Cheese | Igor Reznitsky |
| The Lightning Bug Wars | Gary Shockley |
| The Magic Circle | Terence Waeland |
| The Man in the Corner | ZJ Czupor |
| The Man with a House on His Back | Elaine Dodge |
| The Master Race | Alexander Blake |
| The Mushroom Hunter | Lynne Williams |
| The Mysterious Murder of Marvin King | RC Jerome |
| The Painter | Lara Tupper |
| The Purification | Timothy OLeary |
| The Rabbi's Story | Joe Dowling |
| The Resurrection Man | Shawn Scuefield |
| The Rose and the Whip | Jeanie Hodges |
| The Russian & Aunt Sophia | Rita Moreau |
| The Shadow in the Wid | Lazaros Zigomanis |
| The Shadow King | D.C. Lozar |
| The Silver Dollar | Robert Boeder |
| The Sixth Man | Robert Lamb |
| The Thirty Third | Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus |
| The Three Books of Shama | Benjamin Kwakye |
| The Truth about the Little Mermaid | Makiko Hirata |
| The Violin | Paul Garrety |
| The Ways We Get By | Joe Dornich |
| They Drove on Streets Paved with Kindness. | John Bauer |
| This Is Not My Life | Susan Goldsten |
| Treasure on Boxaurie Mountain | Margaret Cook |
| Trip Wires | Tom Glenn |
| Trojan | Elliot Seidel |
| Walking with You, Racine | Jeanne Watson |
| Watcher | Gareth Mitton |
| Waves | Christina Chiu |
| Wearing a Dead Man's Bones | Bill DeArmond |
| Winterworld | Lyndsie Manusos |
| With Baby Wynona | Cady Vishniac |
| Women Bathing - A Novella | Judith Dancoff |
| World in Progress | Lori White |
| Yackety-Yak (Don't Talk Back) | Chris Vincent |
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