Listed below are the Finalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. These exceptional short stories were selected from almost 1,500 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Winner announcement on March 24th 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 Finalists:
| 'Foxtrot in Fulham' | Janet H Swinney |
| 1992 | DC Diamondopolous |
| A Girl Named Polly | Kitty Trock |
| A Lullaby for Night | Jason Tostevin |
| A Seat at The Window | Herb Jordan |
| A Village in New Hampshire | Patrick McCusker |
| A Well Known Gun | Mike Kearby |
| Anomaly | Jennifer Milne |
| Ants In My Blood | Kevin Berg |
| City Girl | Sian Williams |
| First Kill | Timothy OLeary |
| Friday Afternoon | T.D. Johnston |
| Ghillie's Mum | Lynda Clark |
| Guatemala Triptych | Bill Pieper |
| I am Bhavani | Bindhu Prasad |
| It Was Their Shore | Alexander Mosier |
| Ivory Miniature | Robert C. Frink |
| Jim Morrison Lives! | Randall Sylvan |
| Knife Girl | Francelia Belton |
| Little Girl In The Golden Tower | Josh Taylor |
| Memento Mori: Paris 1971 | Melissa Mitchell |
| Neither Here Nor There | Joban Gill |
| North of Delirium | Lynne Sherbondy |
| Old Man Baseball | Mike Murphey |
| Poseidon's Eyes: Spirits in Summerland | Kary English |
| Present | Taylor Foreman-Niko |
| Recusant | Hamish Ungless |
| Robot vs Dad | Mario Dhingsa |
| Shall We Dance? | Rick Niece |
| Shell | Barrington Smith-Seetachitt |
| Simulacrums | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| Smoke | Bill Mesce, Jr. |
| Sweet Dreams Are . . | M. R. Abbink-Gallagher |
| Sweet Souls | Charles Blackburn |
| The Boarder | Paul Toth |
| The Caregiver | Jim Gourley |
| The Case of the Bloody Nine of Diamonds | Thomas Perrin |
| The Confinement | Tia Lindstrom |
| The Donor | Banning Lary |
| The Duck Days of Summer | Danny Agan |
| The Old and Rare Books of Elijah King | James Chesky |
| The Passions of Voshmgir Farahani | Kuros Charney |
| The Quickening | Jennifer Hanno |
| The Road to Angeland | Kay Olsen |
| The Stars That Sing | Chris Tullbane |
| The Voice Speaks Back | JH Canedy |
| Vicarious | Philip Harris |
| Vicarious | Daniel Cooper |
| Westward Dreaming | Je'Lesia Jones |
| What Covers the House is a Roof | Matthew Haynes |
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