2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Semifinalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on February 13, 2019

Listed below are the semifinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition, selected from roughly 1200 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 the finalists and grand prize winners 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 semifinalists:

*1932*	DC Diamondopolous
*A Breton Homecoming*	Peter James Quirk
*A Debt to the Dead*	Cary Christopher
*A Plain Silver Ring*	Derek Bowers
*A Seat at The Window*	Herb Jordan
*Action and Reaction*	Joel Doty
*Adelaide*	Amy Lambert
*Among The Women*	Selaine Henriksen
*An Ophthalmologist and a Surgeon Duel with Sabers*	Austin Ratner
*Another Statistic*	Travis Richardson
*Arabian Knight*	David Anderson
*Attention*	Marianne Rogoff
*Battle of the Four Seasons*	Lydia Conklin
*Be Yours to Hold*	Nic Cohen
*Better Late*	Paul A. Mendelson
*Black Prince*	Jonathan Swords-Holdsworth
*Blonde Noir*	DC Diamondopolous
*Brothers*	Daniel Boucher
*Buggy, A Fictional Account of Generational Family Abuse*	Timothy J Richards
*Bus Ride to Minot*	Greg Stidham
*But The Darkness Is For Our Imagination*	Michael Crame
*Butterfly*	Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel
*By the Light of the Fireflies*	Marjorie Florestal
*Candy Juice is Okay With It*	Tracy Schumer
*Conference of the Birds*	Huda Razzak
*Consequences*	Emi Cohen
*Continuance*	Irina Ivanova
*Crowned*	Marjorie Maddox
*Cyndie's Star Hollow*	Stacey Parshall Jensen
*Day Dreamer and the Sleeping Giants*	Barbara Layman
*Devotion*	Julia Winn
*Dilemma on Mars*	Fred Shackelford
*Doctor Terror*	R.J. Begiebing
*Emanuel's Trenches*	Alexander Sikarevich
*Fake Pigs*	Jason Dennis
*Feeding The Comebacks*	M. Naomi Warner
*Flower Behind her Ear*	Andrew Stiggers
*For the Dillettante*	Eric Mulder
*Freeway of Love*	Alida Thacher
*Frigid Pines*	Joseph Vranas
*Girls and Their Insticts*	Olivia Sulkowicz
*Higher Love*	R. Kerry
*Izzy Tells No Lies*	P James Norris
*Judging Solomon*	Mary Oleske
*Jump*	Susan Kim Campbell
*Just Facts*	Sarah Mosseller
*Karma Is a Large Flightless Bird*	Ryan Curtin
*Let's Get Lost*	Gordon Neufeld
*Let's Live in Crazy Town*	Jackie Bateman
*Lorelei*	Sabrina Mock-Rossi
*Lost And Found*	Ray Clark
*Machines for Singing*	Nick Wray
*Madame*	Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
*Marion's Marseilles*	Jack Mayer
*Maris on a Mountain*	Will Silverman
*Mary Angela's Kitchen*	Karen Chase
*Milk*	Justin Joyce
*Moonshine*	Michael Aloyan
*Mrs. Padgett's Girls*	Joe English
*My Double Dutch Girl*	Gila K. Berryman
*Oculus*	Janet Swinney
*Of Aphids and Ants*	Narena Olliver
*Of Ice and Snow*	Chloe-Lynn Russo
*On the Properties of Things*	Mary Barnes Jenkins
*On the Side of the Angels*	David Anderson
*One Star*	Tim O'Leary
*Our Lady of the Bass Boat*	Mike Tuohy
*Paintball*	Robert Morgan Fisher
*Panopticon*	Kevin Kneupper
*Pearl: You are Cleared to Land*	Deanna Edens
*Perfect Trifecta Woman*	Stephen Leach
*Pillow Talk with Pablo*	Helen Beer
*Pink Like Candy Floss*	Janet Ritchie
*Plus The Universe Is Trying To Kill You*	Jim Foley
*Pulp Noir #1 A Perfect Night for Redemption*	Chris Mata
*Quality of Life*	Christine Sneed
*Restricted Fantasies*	Kevin Kneupper
*Rosegrove Recovery*	Kerry Broderick
*Rumspringa*	Kevin Kneupper
*Second Wife*	Tiffany Ezuma
*Seven-Pointed Star*	Heather MacDonald
*She's Really Quite Normal*	Melissa Benedict
*Shine*	Donnelle McGee
*Sick Robot*	D.C. Lozar
*Solomon's Choice*	Richard Geiwitz
*Spiral Bound*	Tracy Schumer
*Split Key*	John Rosenberg
*Swamp Girl*	Ruth Knafo Setton
*The Ark*	Lori Stansal
*The Battle of Melcher Hall*	Andrew Orillion
*The Beach at Narbonne*	Nick Wray
*The Bucket*	Jonathan Escoffery
*The Caregiver*	Jim Gourley
*The Case for Psychic Distance*	Jennifer Hanno
*The Choreographer*	Will Pei
*The Good Parent*	Dustin Grinnell
*The Horses*	Sheila Thorne
*The Last Fare*	Sam Beach
*The Man Who Struck Out Joe DiMaggio*	Richard Geiwitz
*The Mirror*	Faisal Azam
*The Purification*	Tim OLeary
*The Road So Black and Narrow*	Kat Lewis
*The Russian & Aunt Sophia*	Rita Moreau
*The Sundowner*	Danny Yang
*The Tale of Roxy Shell*	Melanie Brown
*The taste of memory*	Tristan Marajh
*The Third Woman*	Miriam Kuznets
*The Waiting Room*	Keely Kalirai Cairns
*The Wedding Photographer*	Robert Guffey
*The Witch of Burgess Ave.*	J. Patrick Henry
*This Sword for Hire*	Gregg Chamberlain
*Those Who Leave*	Michael Choi
*Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday morning*	Deborah Riley
*Two Heads are Better than One*	Mark Robyn
*Underneath It All*	Sarah Lane Davidson
*Unthinkable*	John David Taylor
*Until We Close Our Eyes*	Nina Roselle
*Uriah's last rite...*	Chad Broughman
*Virtues of the Robin*	Riley Helm
*Waiting For The Big One*	Catherine Shorr
*Walker*	Leonard Dawson
*Weightless*	Tracy Schumer
*Wild Beasts*	Richard de Forest
*With Special Guests*	Seamus Heffernan
*Wonderland DownUnder*	Corinne MacKenzie
*World Without End*	Siobhan Barry-Bratcher
*Yagruma*	Rosa Soy
*Yoyo and Toothman*	Erni Johnson