2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Semifinalists Announced
Listed below are the semifinalists 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 finalists and winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
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Here are the semifinalists:
| A Black-White-Red Memory | Roselio Hernandez |
| A Different Life | S.T. Ranscht |
| A Seat at the Window | Herb Jordan |
| A Twinkle in Time | Rick M.Clausen |
| African Seasons | Cynthia Helen Beecher |
| After Tiffany's | Paul Regensburg |
| All Saints' Day | Jordan Hill |
| Altered Plans | Constance Bullard |
| Ange en Boîte (Boxed Angel) | Steve Vasquez |
| Arms, Legs, Heartbeats | Noelia Veras |
| Balloon Boy | Tom Catalano |
| Between the Rows | Paul Skenazy |
| Beyond their time | Tristan Marajh |
| Blessed are the Hungry | Victor Fernando Ocampo |
| Blood & Rust | P.D. Platt |
| Catalina | Charles Duffie |
| Clean Conscience Cemetery | Alex Grey |
| Cold Storage | Terence Cady |
| Come to Daddy | Rachele Bowman |
| Countdown | Jamie Liu |
| Dark Swans and Painted Faces | John Schalestock |
| Dead Men Don't Pay | Cory Williams |
| Death Broker | Lisa Pais |
| Delta | Dionne Irving |
| Doppelganger Dogs | D. Jane Hall |
| Dream On, Dancing Queen | Chloe Laube |
| Dream Warriors: Team Spirit | D.C. Lozar |
| Dried Figs or Dates | Siawosh K. Eskandari |
| El Ciego | AJ Olsen |
| Fat Tails | Daniel Degnan |
| Fetch | Jennifer Hudson |
| Florence Nightingale and the Deer | Jeanne Lutz |
| Frankie Ronquillo's Leg | George McFall |
| Friendly Fire | Vance Cariaga |
| From Your Jerry | Kevin Sterne |
| Full Disclosure | Tina Tazekand |
| Hail Chaser | Aukai Arkus |
| Hell City - Final Stop | Joanne Carlton |
| Hell Slowly Creeps | Raquel Levitt |
| Homecoming | Victorio Korjhan |
| How to Fold Towels | Danielle Lee |
| I Knew You Then | Kelly Kirwan |
| In The Periphery | Erica Ruhe |
| Infrastructure | Miriam Kuznets |
| Into the Dustlight | Lisa Pais |
| Lady Luck | Jennifer Dickinson |
| Life with Angie | DC Diamondopolous |
| Like a Rolling Stone | Madeline Hertz |
| Looking For Hemingway | Tim Cooney |
| Malta | Charles Duffie |
| Maya | Gillian Royes |
| Maybe Someday | Maryann Miller |
| Mercy | John Salvage |
| Midnight | Jennifer Howe |
| Mirage | Pamela Donison |
| Miss May | Eileen Shields |
| Missing in Rehoboth | James Gallahan |
| Mother of Pearl | Laura Sciortino |
| Movies | Scott Lipanovich |
| Mustafa and the Hunchback | Mike H. Mizrahi |
| Nameless | Michelle Mellon |
| Necessary Evil | Neil Flinchbaugh |
| NIMBY | Hale Garrison |
| Nothing To See Here | Arthur Doweyko |
| Number 12 rue Sainte-Catherine | Roberta Gates |
| Oakland Mothers, Oakland Wives | Corey Quinlan Taylor |
| On Holy Ground | Gordon Neufeld |
| One Day They Landed | Jennifer Dickinson |
| One Star | Timothy OLeary |
| Paddy's Tonsorial Emporium | Ronald Milburn |
| Pink Baby | Erin MacNair |
| Proxy | Steven Kay |
| Puppet Boy | Michael McCoy |
| Refuge | Caroline Bock |
| Rewind | Steven Kay |
| River Kings | Penn Javdan |
| Rock Star at La Scala | DC Diamondopolous |
| Rufus | Carl B Clark |
| S.H.E. | Michael Mullin |
| Seis Dedos, Six Toes | Amarilys Rassler |
| Self Made | Stuart Forrest |
| Sharks | Susan Shepherd |
| Snapshot: Khe Sanh | Len Forgues |
| South of Smoke | Alan Adler |
| Spaceman | Mike Spry |
| Sparring Partner | George McFall |
| Spice on Hot Steel | Dana Paxson |
| Tendrils | Ben Howling |
| The Arabian Night Shift | Jorge Saralegui |
| The Case of the Web of Death | Thomas Perrin |
| The Fog | Thomas Barnes |
| The Good Samaritan | Philip Arnold |
| The Makeover | Miriam Kuznets |
| The Man Who Played Pinochle with Dogs | Tom Hutton |
| The Memory Thief | Nuno Travesso |
| The Narrows | John Jodzio |
| The Pettifoggerys | Alan Adler |
| The Purification | Timothy O'Leary |
| The Pursuit of Esperanza | Alane Obeso |
| The Rapture | Eimi Ramirez |
| The Reckoning | Julie Ann Slaby |
| The Shadow King | D.C. Lozar |
| The Stolen Heart | Jack Mulcahy |
| The Things That Came Through With the Baby | TJ Berry |
| The Third Obituary of Anton Popov | Jessica Walker |
| The World Eater | Pim Manasakul |
| Three Things I'll Never Do Before I Die | Christine Daigle |
| To The Nines | Elena Perez |
| Tokyo Violet | Merlin Goldman |
| Tough Girl | Russell Bonasso |
| True Dead | Lauren Everdell |
| Two Graves | Zoe Kalo |
| Up That Hill | Toni Ann Johnson |
| Weeping Willows | Daniel Tierney |
| What Love Does | Vijay Fitzgerald |
| When Foxes Die Electric | Paola Ferrante |
| Wound | Justin Wilson |
| You'll Forget Me, Too | Silvija Padjen |
| Your Mandala | Michelle Flye |
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