Regular Deadline: September 12th

9th Annual Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition

We are back for another great year and another wonderful season ahead with fantastic prizes and opportunities for screenwriters of all levels to advance their career.

Since 2009, Fresh Voices has distinguished itself as a screenplay competition designed to discover, empower and promote the next generation of screenwriters. As such, Fresh Voices has consistently identified writers with a unique and memorable voice that demands to be read. Now in our 9th year, we are proud to have helped guide dozens of talented screenwriters to secure literary representation, option agreements and other work-for-hire writing assignments that have been the stepping stones to significant careers.

This year, Fresh Voices is pleased to offer over $20,000 cash & prizes. Through our generous sponsors, Fresh Voices gives away prize packages designed to support your career including cash prizes, script development and career consultation, plus memberships and subscriptions to services designed to maximize the exposure of your big win. All the tools guidance & opportunity you need to develop a great screenplay and pursue a successful career.

"Thank you for the detailed feedback. It was quite obvious the reader had read the material cover to cover and their level of professionalism and understanding of story and structure was clearly evident and a breath of fresh air."

Rosanna Marquez (Los Angeles, California)

"We want to thank you for your evaluation of our script. It was articulate and well written, and showed you took the time to absorb it. Writing these short, comprehensive reviews is clearly an art form of its own. It was a pleasant surprise to get serious feedback from an experienced industry professional".

Mark Beech & Linda Gray (Battle Creek, Nebraska)

"Superb feedback. Both insightful and useful. It's nice to get a reader who actually has ideas and suggestions about your work. The fact that I'm receiving this from a contest format is mind-blowing to me. You guys are onto something special. Keep it up!"

Be Smissen (Murrieta, California)

"Wow! Great feedback!! I once paid $500 for an evaluation that wasn't one tenth as thoughtful or useful, not to mention detailed. I could tell your reader actually read every word and gave it some thought. Worth the price of admission alone!"

John Aldriedge (Arlington, Virginia)

"I really appreciate the feedback in your contest. The notes were insightful, clear, concise and gave me a great sense of the level of importance and detail that went into the analysis. It's nice to know that someone worked as hard to critique it as I did to write it."

Leon Hendrix (Rhinebeck, New York)

"Thank you for, again, another great analysis. Your advice is so clear to me to be exactly on the mark that I can't believe I spent so many hundreds of hours on this project without any of it occurring to me! I think I'll go back to writing limericks, epigrams and shopping lists ;)"

D. Jay Williams (Spokane Valley, Washington)

"This is the first screenplay contest that means something to me. I've won others with better pieces of writing that were less commercial and got me nowhere. Your helpful summary pushed me towards my second draft faster that any meaningless award could have. $60 for an entry free: questionable. Honest notes on my screenplay: priceless."

Ellyn Shull (Kirkland, Washington)

2018 Competition Details

Prizes

Deadlines & Entry Fees

Rules & Eligibility

Announcement Schedule

Resubmissions

Enter Here

Feature Screenplay

$60

TV Pilot & Spec Sample

$60

Short Script

$50

Resubmission/ Reentry

$50

Or Here

Meet Our 2017-18 Grand Prize Winner

Those Who Hear by Jerome Velinsky

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Sponsors, Partners & Affiliates

		Feature Screenplay	TV Pilots & Specs	Short Script	Reentry Resub	Feedback/ Analysis
Early	Aug 14th	$55	$55	$45	$50	+$50/150
Regular	Sept 12th	$60	$60	$50	$50	+$50/150
Late	Oct 10th	$65	$65	$55	$50	+$50/150
Final	Nov 7th	$70	$70	$60	$50	+$50/150

Rules & Eligibility
Screenplays should be submitted with a title page. Name and other personal information are optional. The title of the PDF document must be saved in the format (Screenplay Title by Author First and Last Name) For Example - A Beautiful Mind by Akiva Goldsman). Entries must be received on or before the deadline and payment made in full at time of the submission. All submitted material must be original, and all rights must be owned by the entrant at the time of submitting. Adaptations are only eligible if the underlying rights are owned by the entrant, or the work is in the public domain. Submissions are accepted via electronic submission only.	Scripts must be submitted as a PDF document. All unproduced screenplays written in English are eligible. Each applicant will receive an e-mail notifying them of the competition results. Substitutions of corrected pages or new drafts of the entered material are not allowed unless formally resubmitted. Material written by a writing team must be submitted by one writer with consent of the others. If a writing team is chosen as a winner, prizes will be distributed to the person who entered the project. Each team is responsible for dividing or sharing the prize package.	All ages from anywhere in the world are eligible. All material submitted to other competitions or contests are eligible. There are no requirements as to when the material was written. The material submitted must not be professionally published or produced prior to entering the competition. Any submitted work that is published or produced between the time of submission and the end of the judging period will no longer be eligible. Previous Grand Prize Winners and employees of Fresh Voices, past or present, are not eligible.

Quarter Finalists	January 2019
Semi Finalists	February 2019
Finalists & Awards Nominees	March 2019
Winners	April 2019