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