2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Semifinalists

by ScreenCraft on February 8, 2023

Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2023 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!

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:

*115 Mohegan*	Kelsey Wacker
*A Winter's Night at Gramercy Park*	Ege Gurdeniz
*Cynoflax*	Charulata Sinha
*Dead Men Tell No Tales in High School*	Michelle Blair Wilker
*Death is Hiring*	Maria Wickens
*Granny Face Snatcher*	L. Austen Johnson
*I Knew You Once*	Vanessa Branch
*Jeremiah*	Bryan Demore
*Leith Braggan's Guide*	Ayinde Ricco
*Love Vigilantes*	Stephen Brophy
*Love, Loss and Lunacy*	D.M. Ward
*Mixed Nuptials*	Jeremiah Murphy
*My Best Friend's Body*	Zoe Kerr
*Night Shift*	Mike Waterston
*Nnenne*	Candice Holdorf
*Nurture*	Jackie Fenn
*October Seven*	Steven Stiefel
*Oculus*	Janet H Swinney
*Omega*	Leanne Phillips
*Proof of Concept*	Chris Bolton
*Rushford Recapitulation*	Christopher Rose
*Saving Sara*	Paul Wine
*Sentient Being Blues*	Christopher Rose
*Sorry, Delivery*	Paula Lennon
*The Black Fort and Twin Oaks - Oak Plantation*	R. C. Frink
*The Burnt House (or, Colin and Cusatelli)*	Jared Warner
*The Final Push*	Richard Van Anderson
*The Ifrit*	P. James Norris
*The Lost Heifetz*	Michael Tabor
*The Odyssey of Myrtle Ambrose*	Marcus Jones
*The Queen of Lakes*	L.S. Johnson
*The Sound of the Summer*	Eileen O'Donoghue
*Trees*	Leanne Phillips
*Unmade Lives*	Vikram Kapur
*Wingboy*	Grace Ng
*Wrecking Crew*	Wes Blalock