2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on February 1, 2023
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 1,000 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on March 15th on our blog 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 Semifinalists:
| A Backpack, a Chair and a Beard | Eamon Wood |
| A Hobo in the White House | John Bateson |
| All the Awful Wondrous Things | Andrew MacDonald |
| All the Idle Weeds That Grow | Brian Koukol |
| Brown Skin Girl | Mytrae Meliana |
| Chuck Masters' Body of Work | D. Eric Paster |
| Closer Would Be Better | Greta Gize |
| Crossroad Blues | Ariel Slick |
| Cults of L.A. | D.W. Cropper |
| Damaged Goods | Debbi Mack |
| Dead Man's Wine | P.K. Simpson |
| Exile Music | Jennifer F Steil |
| Forgive Us Our Trespasses: A Memoir of a Jewish Teacher in a Catholic School | Diane Gensler |
| Goodbye Heiko Goodbye Berlin | Owen Levy |
| Gravity is Green | David Zaccaria |
| Gray Song | Sean Johnson |
| Lady Vigilante | Hayley Camille |
| Letters from Tehran | Kuros Charney |
| Love is Louder - Novella | Susan Hahn |
| Merlyn's Mistake | Dylan Brody |
| Miss del Río: A Novel of Dolores del Río, the first major Latina star in Hollywood | Barbara Mujica |
| Mud Pie | Roger Greene |
| must have GSOH | Paul A. Mendelson |
| Mystic | Jason Denzel |
| NO ORDINARY LIFE: African Awakenings | Mary A. Byron |
| One Hundred Years of War | Anitha Perinchery |
| Perdition Kingdom | Ryan Norris |
| Pizza Boy | Jordan Dee Crabtree |
| Seven Locks | Christine Wade |
| SEX PARTNER #9 | Sanyee Yuan |
| The Algorithm Will See You Now | JL Lycette |
| The Chancer | Fiona Graham |
| The Darkness | Robbi Bryant |
| The Diver | Samsun Knight |
| The Fall of Bellwether | Chad Broughman |
| The Forever Moment | Paul A Mendelson |
| The Greatest Escape, a True American Civil War Adventure | douglas Miller |
| The Hands of Enemies - Book One of the Speed of Light Series | Roger Greene |
| The Hate Lovers | Staton Rabin |
| The Hollowing of Lady Abigail Hector | Neil Flinchbaugh |
| The Illustrator's Daughter | Gideon Burrows |
| The Method | Duncan Ralston |
| The Price of Silence | Ulla Hakanson |
| The Strange Land Trilogy | Ben Anderson |
| The Time of New Weather | Sean W Murphy |
| The Trinity Rivers Trilogy | K Blanton Brenner |
| The Zombie Autopsies | steven schlozman |
| Under the Meadow | William Parolini |
| When Lions Roar | Karen Gruber |
| WHEN SILENCE SCREAMS | Mark Edward Langley |
| Zero School: Maddy's Secret History | Jamie Ruddy |
| ZIGZAG GIRL | RUTH KNAFO SETTON |
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