2022 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Finalists

by ScreenCraft on March 16, 2022

Listed below are the Finalists of the 2022 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 800 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!

We're excited to share these projects with our incredible jury that includes: Mikki Daughtry & Tobias Iaconis (Authors & Screenwriters), Dara Hyde (Senior Agent at the Hill Nadell Literary Agency), and Emily Stokes (Editor at The Paris Review).

Stay tuned for the Winner announcement on April 20th here and on our Twitter and Facebook 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 Finalists:

*A Rather Lovely Thing*	Casey Mensing
*Baby Arjun*	Monika Gupta
*Claim*	Fiona Ennis
*Dried Figs or Dates*	Siawosh K. Eskandari
*Just the Thing for a Day Like This*	Cyn Nooney
*Looking for Rain*	Matt Wills
*My Daughters Boyfriends*	Penny Jackson
*Tender, Like My Heart*	Jim Roberts
*The Discount Countess*	Flora Doone
*The Future is one mile from my house*	Alberto Alarico Vignati
*The Great Gimmelmans*	Lee Matthew Goldberg
*The Jackshit Bastards*	Jim Roberts
*The Purification*	Timothy OLeary
*Time to Flagstaff*	Leanne Phillips
*What Happened at Lincoln House Farm, a Scrap Story*	Susan Howard
*When the North Wind Blows*	Kary English