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2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Finalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on February 27, 2019

Listed below are the finalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition, selected from over 1,200 submissions. We’re excited to be exploring these excellent books and to have received a slate of compelling works.

This year's jury is comprised of a literary agent from Abrams Artists Agencya publishing coordinator from The Gersh Agency, the editor of Red Hen Press, a manager at MXN Entertainment, and a New York Times best-selling author.

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of the grand prize winner here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!

If you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2019, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Here are the top 25 finalists:

4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace Johan Twiss
A Life Without Water Marci Clark
Cold Reckoning J. R. Geary
Emerson Page and Where the Light Enters Christa Avampato
Happily Destroyed Evan Purcell
Incident on the Road to Canterbury Vince Pantalone
Iron Dogs Neil Chase
Louisiana Blood Mike Donald
Metamorphphilia Dorian Martin
Not The Jamaica We Know Paula Lennon
Picaro: Psychopaths, Warlords, and a Rogue Journalist on the Dark Side of History Jeff Harmon
Praelium Andrew Furstenberg
Race Music Mark Herder
Regen Cassie Greutman
Soul To Keep Rachel Rawlings
Starring...John Dillinger Bill Walker & Brian Anthony
The Captain Loves Caviar Chilli Kippen & Elaine Berkowitz
The Condor Song Joan Golden
The Confessions of Jonathan Flite Matthew Beier
The Copenhagen Incident Herb  Jordan
The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride Joe Siple
The Golem of Venice Beach Chanan Beizer
The Heart of a Tiger SreyRam Kuy
The Tale of a No-Name Squirrel Radhika Dhariwal
The Whip Karen Kondazian

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