2022 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition Finalists

Listed below are the Finalists of the 2022 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 1,500 submissions. Congratulations to these writers!
We're excited to share these incredible scripts with our esteemed jury that includes: Ryan Stayton (Director of Development at Hivemind), Casey Durant (Creative Executive at Automatik), Emily Feher (Creative Executive at 21 Laps), and showrunner/screenwriter Naren Shankar (THE EXPANSE).
Stay tuned for the Winner announcement on September 21st on our blog and on our Twitter and Facebook pages! 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:
Barriers | Daniel Woburn |
Distress | Calvin Starnes |
EVOLUTION | Caroline Chidester |
Forever Young | Antoine Perry |
Genesis Incorporated | Aaron Edwards |
Ghost Stories - "Who Died and Made You Queen?" | Rachel Esselle |
Girl At The End of The World | Dillon VanOort |
Intrepid | Michael Langer |
INVISIBLES | Kevin Sweeney |
Lionheart | Frances Flannery |
Marley's Chains | Brian Gene White |
Once And Future | Kylie Boersma |
Once Upon a Time on the Red Planet | Emil Chang, William Leonard |
Palace of Thorns | Erin Fenton |
Phantom Black | Tyler Pagan, Ben Engebretson |
Quietus | Priscilla Estrada |
SHELLS | Derrick Metellus |
Spectacle | Nicole Sconiers |
The Quarter Queen | Kayla Hardy |
Three Realms | Sarah Chang Tadayon |
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