2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Finalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on March 11, 2020

Listed below are the finalists of the 2019 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 such compelling works.

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

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the 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 2020, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Here are the finalists:

*A Seat At The Window*	Herb Jordan
*African Seasons*	Cynthia Helen Beecher
*Altered Plans*	Constance Bullard
*Beyond Their Time*	Tristan Marajh
*Clean Conscience Cemetery*	Alex Grey
*Cold Storage*	Terence Cady
*Come To Daddy*	Rachele Bowman
*Countdown*	Jamie Liu
*Death Broker*	Lisa Pais
*Delta*	Dionne Irving
*Dream On, Dancing Queen*	Chloe Laube
*Dried Figs or Dates*	Siawosh K. Eskandari
*Fetch*	Jennifer Hudson
*Florence Nightingale And The Deer*	Jeanne Lutz
*Friendly Fire*	Vance Cariaga
*Hell Slowly Creeps*	Raquel Levitt
*How To Fold Towels*	Danielle Lee
*Into The Dustlight*	Lisa Pais
*Lady Luck*	Jennifer Dickinson
*Life With Angie*	DC Diamondopolous
*Malta*	Charles Duffie
*Maya*	Gillian Royes
*Miss May*	Eileen Shields
*Mother Of Pearl*	Laura Sciortino
*Mustafa And The Hunchback*	Mike H. Mizrahi
*Nameless*	Michelle Mellon
*Number 12 Rue Sainte-Catherine*	Roberta Gates
*Oakland Mothers, Oakland Wives*	Corey Quinlan Taylor
*On Holy Ground*	Gordon Neufeld
*Paddy's Tonsorial Emporium*	Ronald Milburn
*Pink Baby*	Erin MacNair
*Proxy*	Steven Kay
*Refuge*	Caroline Bock
*Rewind*	Steven Kay
*Seis Dedos, Six Toes*	Amarilys Rassler
*Self Made*	Stuart Forrest
*South of Smoke*	Alan Adler
*Tendrils*	Ben Howling
*The Fog*	Thomas Barnes
*The Narrows*	John Jodzio
*The Pettifoggerys*	Alan Adler
*The Shadow King*	D.C. Lozar
*The Stolen Heart*	Jack Mulcahy
*The Third Obituary Of Anton Popov*	Jessica Walker
*Three Things I'll Never Do Before I Die*	Christine Daigle
*To The Nines*	Elena Perez
*Tough Girl*	Russell Bonasso
*Two Graves*	Zoe Kalo
*Weeping Willows*	Daniel Tierney
*What Love Does*	Vijay Fitzgerald