2024 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on February 7, 2024
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. These exceptional stories were selected from almost 600 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Semifinalists:
| "Enough Is Enough" | Monique Baisden |
| a new old god | M.X. Edwards |
| Breakfast at the Taj Mahal | Michael Richards |
| DAUGHTER | Vanessa Le |
| Death at the Sundial Motel | Aaron Clark |
| Death by Dying | Diane Sutherland |
| Defying Gravity | Jana Williams |
| Demo | Saleh Karaman |
| Fear Thy Nature | Brian "Drew" Cedillo |
| Gigi | Anne Moore |
| Hail Mary Suicide Squeeze a Little Christie Brinkley Please | Michele Salt Horn |
| Harmonics of Monk and Chicken | John Broadhead |
| Homecoming Dance | Matt Fried |
| It's Not Magic | Elizabeth Tabish |
| Jonquil | Leslie Reynard |
| LASHER | David Dalessandro |
| October Seven | Steven Stiefel |
| Of Crab Traps And Fisherwomen | Liesl Wilke |
| Permission to Pause | Carley Thorne |
| Pinheads | James Tallman |
| Recall Notice | JG Nair |
| Snake Bit | Amy Mills Klipstine |
| Something to Cry About | Sofi Papamarko |
| The Ghost Of Great-Great -- Our Story | Marcella Hill |
| The Jar Tradition | Carla Ward (Cloutier) |
| The Man In The Vending Machine | Pedro Salinas |
| The Odds | Matthew Haynes |
| The Rental | Rae Shambrook |
| The Time Rosa Ran | Barbara de la Cuesta |
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