2024 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Quarterfinalists

by ScreenCraft on January 17, 2024

Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. These exceptional stories were selected from almost 600 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!

Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on February 7th on our blog and on our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram 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 Quarterfinalists:

*"Enough Is Enough"*	Monique Baisden
*"In the Pocket: The Musical Journey of Drummer and Educator- Buddy Deppenschmidt"*	Troy A. Hoffman
*"When Hell Froze Over"*	Robert McGuill
*4th Law*	Philip Benz
*A Cat in a Box for Mom*	Joe Cappello
*A Christmas Cure*	Jaynie Higgins
*A Comforting Pain*	Teju Prasad
*a new old god*	M.X. Edwards
*After Marie*	Lou Tondeur
*All the Hatred in the World*	Alyssa White
*Angel's Hair*	John Bauer
*Athena Parthenos*	Mike Dramytinos
*Baker's Dozen*	K.T Jayne
*Bob's Pest Control*	Ryan Hyatt
*Breakfast at the Taj Mahal*	Michael Richards
*Bush Craft - Part One*	L.R. Forgues
*Bush Craft - Part Two*	L.R. Forgues
*By Any Other Name*	Ken Wetherington
*Carabas*	Vishwas Gaitonde
*Carter*	Carlos Perez
*Cash In the Past - 2024 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short-Story Competition*	William Auten
*Chairwork*	LJ MiRae
*Coy's Gold*	Wyman Gilliam
*Curls*	Ray Harlan
*DAUGHTER*	Vanessa Le
*Dear Harley Short Story*	Lee Whittaker
*Death at the Sundial Motel*	Aaron Clark
*Death by Dying*	Diane Sutherland
*Defying Gravity*	Jana Williams
*Demo*	Saleh Karaman
*Destiny (In Memory of Annie)*	Karen Karper Fredette
*Dogsitting*	Jeremy Ravdin
*Down By The River*	Christina Alagaratnam
*Eyes of the Soul*	Sian M. Williams
*Favors*	Michael Kaplan
*Fear Thy Nature*	Brian "Drew" Cedillo
*First Friday*	Leslie Reynard
*For The Love of Them*	Amarilys Rassler
*Gigi*	Anne Moore
*Granite Requires*	TJ Berry
*Gumball Teeth*	Maria Grigoriadis
*Hail Mary Suicide Squeeze a Little Christie Brinkley Please*	Michele Salt Horn
*Halfway to Her*	Tegwin Huws
*Harmonics of Monk and Chicken*	John Broadhead
*Hey, Ma*	Amy Avila
*Homecoming Dance*	Matt Fried
*Hunting the Archer*	John Foley
*Identity*	Hawraa Al-Awadhi
*It's A Wonderful And Interesting Life*	Malcolm Rimmer
*It's Not Magic*	Betty Mayer
*Jill Against the Unicorns*	Kris Herndon
*Jim Morrison Live!*	Randall Sylvan
*Joe Coffee and the Dead-Eyed Bozo*	Julie Ann Slaby
*Jogging*	Anthony Wilbourne
*Jonquil*	Leslie Reynard
*Just Passing Through*	Ernest Langston
*Katharine*	Oliver Arnoldi
*Knot Wood*	Michael Miller
*La Santuzza*	Steven Volynets
*LASHER*	David Dalessandro
*Laurel Canyon Lullaby*	Timothy Burgess
*Lefty*	John Doble
*Legacy, repeat*	Melody Kepler
*Light'em Up*	John Bias
*Lovers and Lace*	Dania Voss
*Man Cave*	Mark Higgins
*Marlene's Memory*	Robert Warner
*Maryja*	Daniela Králová
*Midnight Rambler*	Rik Isensee
*Mr. February*	Marc W. Johnson
*My Pretty*	Kim White
*Naked Ladies*	Leslie Reynard
*No One Escapes a Reckoning*	Thomas Ukinski
*Nobody Gets to be a Cowboy Forever*	Noah Burns
*October Seven*	Steven Stiefel
*Of Crab Traps And Fisherwomen*	Liesl Wilke
*Orient Point*	Errol Selkirk
*Oscar and Olivia*	Richard McPherson
*Parcheesi*	Mary Barnes Jenkins
*Pathological*	Alyssa Amer
*Permission to Pause*	Carley Thorne
*Pinheads*	James Tallman
*Point of Change*	Thomas R Lambert
*Pumpkin Love Charm*	Wren Valentino
*Que Sera, Sera*	Sara Bugaighis
*Recall Notice*	JG Nair
*Reflections in a Temporary Life*	Raymond Qualls
*RePurpose*	Emmanuella Ololo
*RESURRECTION*	Linda Waltenberger
*Saving MacArthur's Ass*	Danyl Doyle
*Second Opinion*	Richard McPherson
*Secrets of the Dying*	Brenda Stephens
*She Once Had Me*	Mason Daviess
*Siblings*	Kevin Bachar
*Sir Ashfall and the Seven Demons*	Alan Eckelberry
*Snake Bit*	Amy Mills Klipstine
*Socially Distant*	Tim Anderson
*Something to Cry About*	Sofi Papamarko
*Spontaneous Combustion*	Brenden Wysocki
*Stitch*	Bryce Berkowitz
*Strangers in Paris*	William Smith
*Table the 13th*	Emily Dauer
*Taylor's Cheer*	Anja Djuricic
*The Archivist of Third Chance*	Ashley Shelby
*The Beach House*	Melissa Sweazy
*The Birds Nest*	Gregory Cusumano
*The birth and death of Budcat Creations, Iowa's first (and only) Triple-A game studio*	Nicholas Yanes
*The Boy in the Air*	Amara Mesnik
*The Escape*	Judy Benowitz
*The Fool*	Leslie Reynard
*The Forest for the Trees*	Phil Giunta
*THE GHOST OF GREAT-GREAT -- OUR STORY*	Marcella Hill
*The Green Dot*	Lora Hilty
*The Henry Plan*	Matt O'Reilly
*The Hole*	Roshan Kalghatgi
*The Hunter*	Loren Cooper
*The Jack*	Ryan Gibbons
*The Jar Tradition*	Carla Ward (Cloutier)
*The Leaping Snow Leopard*	Susan Lee Hahn
*The Locked Room*	Melissa Mendelson
*The Man In The Vending Machine*	Pedro Salinas
*The Message*	Susan Jackson
*The Most Beautiful Woman in the Room*	Madeline Rose
*The Odds*	Matthew Haynes
*The Point of Indifference*	Matthew Haynes
*The Rental*	Rae Shambrook
*The Revelation*	Roger Terry
*The Shield Maiden*	Alyxandra Harvey
*The Sinful*	Hawraa Al-Awadhi
*The Stone Egg*	Leslie Reynard
*The Tale of the King*	Edward Rosenthal
*The Third Coincidence*	Christina Hoag
*The Time Rosa Ran*	Barbara de la Cuesta
*The Wrong Church*	Bea Teal
*The Yellow Jalopy*	Ben Monaco
*Therein Lies A Soul*	Osahon Ize-Iyamu
*This Is the Work of One Hundred Best Citizens*	Julie Ann Slaby
*Turboatom*	Steven Volynets
*Unforgettable*	Richard McPherson
*Venus Exegesis*	Christopher Rose
*VIBES Detectives Agency: A Haunting In Silverlake*	Alex Shifman, Diogo Hausen
*WagWorld*	Jacqueline Berkman
*Water Women*	Ian Martin
*Waterloo*	Ben Carter Olcott
*We Were Beautiful Once*	K. Farrell Dalrymple
*What Do You Know About Love?*	Noah McAfee
*When Considering the Stars*	Matthew Haynes
*Where Else But Queensland*	Paradox Delilah
*Where Flowers Bloom in Winter*	L. R. Braden
*Whispers of the Sleepless*	Chad Mountain
*Yes, She Bites*	Cash Anthony