2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Finalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on March 13, 2019

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

This year's jury is comprised of editors from The Paris Review, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Granta Magazine, as well as an O. Henry Award-winning novelist and short story writer.

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of 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:

*A Seat at The Window*	Herb Jordan
*Adelaide*	Amy Lambert
*Blonde Noir*	DC Diamondopolous
*Butterfly*	Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel
*By the Light of the Fireflies*	Marjorie Florestal
*Conference of the Birds*	Huda Razzak
*Freeway of Love*	Alida Thacher
*Marion's Marseilles*	Jack Mayer
*My Double Dutch Girl*	Gila K. Berryman
*On the Properties of Things*	Mary Barnes Jenkins
*One Star*	Tim O'Leary
*Panopticon*	Kevin Kneupper
*Pink Like Candy Floss*	Janet Ritchie
*Quality of Life*	Christine Sneed
*Restricted Fantasies*	Kevin Kneupper
*Sick Robot*	D.C. Lozar
*Spiral Bound*	Tracy Schumer
*Split Key*	John Rosenberg
*Swamp Girl*	Ruth Knafo Setton
*The Caregiver*	Jim Gourley
*The Third Woman (Revision)*	Miriam Kuznets
*The Witch of Burgess Ave.*	J. Patrick Henry
*Unthinkable*	John David Taylor
*Waiting For The Big One*	Catherine Shorr
*Yagruma*	Rosa Soy