2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Semifinalists

by ScreenCraft on January 27, 2021

Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition. These exceptional manuscripts were selected from almost 1,400 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!

Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on February 17th here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Here are the Semifinalists:

*7th Grade Revolution*	Liana Gardner
*A Fondness for Beetles*	Rebekah Heaney
*A-Luring We Will go*	Barbara Milton
*All Creatures Here Below*	Ryan Stevens
*All Junkies Float*	Clarke Wainikka
*All the Pretty Shoes*	Marianne R Klein
*All Their Yesterdays*	Karen Mireau
*Amarok*	Angela Townsend
*Among Kings*	Joey O'Connor
*And For Your Information*	Denise Deegan
*And One Day My Stars Will Burn*	Damon Ferrara
*Asher and Stacey's Magnificent Road Trip*	Stacey Cohen-Maitre
*Autumn's Captive*	Kelda Poynot
*Beyond Belief - Heroes of the Holocaust*	Dee White
*Bird and Shadow*	Mhairead MacLeod
*Black Donnelly, Rats and Pigs*	Fergus Egan
*Black Hands in Red Lands*	Larry Baer
*Bough Breaks*	Katherine Vaz
*Breaking Twig*	Deborah Epperson
*Breathe*	Eileen Hornback
*Breathe*	Brionna Nijah
*Cam & Beau*	Maria Cichosz
*Came A Creature*	David Dalessandro
*Chilly*	Robert Sweet
*Clean Burn*	Karen Sandler
*Cleaning Up Finn*	Sarah M. Chen
*Colombo: The unsolved murder*	Don Capria
*Cormorant Lake*	Faith Merino
*Crushing The Red Flowers*	Jennifer Voigt Kaplan
*Dart*	Dale Renton
*Dear Caroline...*	Ralph Yourie
*Death is a Grizzly*	Joel Graves
*Death of a Bounty Hunter*	Jay Sherer & Nathan Scheck
*Dewdrops*	Dan Flanigan
*Dickbird and The Specials*	Conor Hanney
*Dragon's Mist*	Randy Cruts
*Drown 'Em Like Puppies*	Maria Wickens
*Earnest Ink*	Alex Hall
*Earth To Andromeda: Hurtling Toward Calamity*	Christie Allen
*Elephant in a Safeway Bag*	Roderick Stevens
*Enfant Terrible*	Gwydhar Gebien
*Far Away Bird*	Douglas Burton
*Finding Nine*	Susan Langhorst
*Four Dead Queens*	Astrid Scholte
*Gearteeth*	Timothy Black
*Get Idiota*	Nate Granzow
*Girl of a Thousand Shadows*	Jennifer Coryell
*Glass Onion*	David Yurkovich
*Gllu Boy and The Seven Abominations*	William Waxman
*Gumbo Justice*	Holli Herrle-Castillo
*Hard Red Winter*	Alan Larson
*Hattie McCoy and the Soul Wells*	Brian Bull
*Heckler*	Jason Graff
*Helmet Head*	John Noreen
*His Name Was Ezra*	Craig Moody
*Ho Ho Ho*	Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft
*Hockey Camp Hero*	John Blair
*I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol*	Joanne Rose
*Illa's Journey*	Maja Simeoni Sruk
*In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program*	Patrick Hicks
*In Times of Silence*	Chrys Tillman
*Iva: The True Story Of Tokyo Rose*	Mike Weedall
*Ivory Rangers*	Joseph Mujwit
*Jesus on the Dashboard*	Lisa Murphy Lamb
*July Seventeenth*	Kim Ko
*Juna's Jar*	Jane Bahk
*Keeping Up With Jones*	Cassie Poormokhtar
*Lady Roosevelt's Moonshine Library*	Ryan Byrnes
*Lifewalla - Inspired by true events*	Nina Joshi Ramsey
*Lifted*	Nathan Moore
*Maybe There Are Witches*	Ben Lohman
*Merlin of the Magnolias*	Gardner Landry
*Mile High Jiggered*	Barry Schnell
*Moonflower*	Angela Townsend
*My Cat is a Dog (MCIAD)*	Mohja Rhoads
*My Heart Transplant For Your Amusement*	Vince Clews
*My Teenage Dream Ended*	Farrah Abraham
*Newman's Choice*	Mark Connelly
*Once in a Blood Moon*	Dorothea Bonneau
*Ox Bridger*	Randy Neale
*Panorama*	Christina Upton
*Pawn Of The Gods*	Andrea Franco Cook
*Pendulum*	Richard T. Lynch
*Perpetual Motion*	Cassy Phoenix
*Piano Soldier*	Josephine Thomas
*Plain Princess Jane*	Jennifer Milne
*Plastic Phoenix*	Kyle McGraw
*Playing Cupid*	Samantha Alban
*Pretending You're Mine*	Marie Higgins
*Private Good Luck*	Sherwin Gluck
*Quarantined*	Ann Hirsch
*Reclamation*	Gregory Beam
*Redacted*	J. Andrew Rutledge
*Resort*	Andrew Daley
*Rocky Mountain High (Smoke Above Treeline)*	steven schlozman
*Sacrificed*	Robert Bridge
*Saving the Light at Chartres*	Victor Pollak
*Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor During a campaign of Death and Destruction***	Tammy Pemper
*Sharks in the Valley*	Travis Kennedy
*Sheet Music*	Debby Mayer
*Sisters of the Moon*	Alexandrea Weis
*Son of Death*	Shandra Snyder-Beuch
*Song of the Shaman*	Annette Vendryes Leach
*Splintered State*	Justin Kinney
*Tactical Action Squad - Bushfire Emergency*	Tim Mac
*Tears and Trombones*	Nanci Lee Woody
*Temple of Eternity*	Scott Boyer
*That's Probably Really Ironic*	Yashaswini Singh
*The 3-Dimensional Boy*	Ian Hart
*The Ancestor*	Lee Matthew Goldberg
*The Bigwigs*	Joshua Henaman
*The Boy Who Never Give (A Refugee's epic journey to Triumph)*	Emmanuel Taban
*The Café on Dream Street*	Adriane Brown
*The Cherry Harvest*	Lucy Sanna
*The Christmas Samaritan*	Mary Freeman
*The Crossingway*	Lynn Elliott
*The Daffodil Society*	T.D. Johnston
*The Games*	Austin Daniel
*The Humanist*	Kenneth Allen
*The Journey Home*	Becky Bird
*The Judas Apocalypse*	Dan McNeil
*The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made* and Lost Billions, *Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob,* *and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale*	Natasha Stoynoff & Thomas Giacomaro
*The Last Man of Thebes*	Michael Colucci
*The Last Wife*	Amy Asbjørnsen
*The Lies We Tell*	Laura McCluskey
*The Liquidator*	Iain Parke
*The Long Wave*	Tom Dreyer
*The Magus World*	Gannon G Kenney
*The Man with Lightning in His Eye*	Sid Gateaux
*The Other One*	Chrysler Szarlan
*The Path of the Righteous*	Hernando Romero-Gomez
*The Prairie Bridesmaid*	Daria Salamon
*The Raven's Conjuring: Dreams of Desolation*	Miguel Garcia
*The Rules of Action*	Landon J Napoleon
*The Seven Experiments*	Steve Kanicki
*The Sleepers*	Sydney Raeburn-Power
*The Speaker*	Gail Webber
*The Temple of the Graces*	T.D. Johnston
*The Tiny Giant*	Christopher Newcomb
*The Tree, A Journey to Freedom*	Minnette Coleman
*The Uniform*	Gabby Gruen
*The Venetian and the Rum Runner*	L.A. Witt
*There's Nothing Normal About Us*	Art Blount
*Time Trap: Red Moon science fiction, time travel trilogy book 1*	Micah Caida
*To Live Is To Die*	Joanne Rose
*Twisted*	Joanne Carlton
*Two Mutts*	Matthew Remakus
*Unconquered Warrior*	Jeanette Nicely
*Unlashed*	Reb Schuster
*Unloved, a love story*	Katy Regnery
*Unnatural Relations*	Casey B Dolan
*Valkyrie's Kiss*	Michael Alcorn
*Waltzing with the Dragons*	Juliette Triozon
*Western Sunset*	Karin Bishop
*When We're Young*	Amanda ReCupido
*Where We Go From Here*	Matthew Haynes
*Wizard Island Child of the Orb*	Terry Morris
*You Decide*	Robert Wolff
*Zombelina*	Atong Alor