Podcast scripts should be between 10-40 pages.

Writers from all countries are welcome to enter. All Podcast scripts must be written in English.

All ages are welcome.

Podcast scripts should be written in either screenplay, radio play, or stageplay format.

Podcast scripts should be formatted at size 12 Courier.

We only accept completed scripts. No synopses, treatments, or bibles.

Please submit your script as a PDF.

Previous entrants from other contests may apply. However, previous winning scripts are ineligible.

The Podcast script must be the writer’s original work. Adaptations are allowed but the writer must own all copyright. 

Podcast scripts must be fiction and work as a serialized episodic form.

All genres are welcome.

Writing Teams are accepted.

Each writer, or writing team, may not have earned more than $50,000 in screenwriting fees in the preceding 18 months. This clause is in place to help us support emerging talent. (Contest & Fellowship awards do not count toward this total).

You may enter a newer draft of an already submitted script. There is a small additional fee as the script will be reread. You may re-enter your script through the Resubmission page.

Multiple entries are accepted. Each entry must be for a different show.

If your script is optioned, purchased, or produced during the competition, then it will no longer be eligible for the contest.

If you become one of our winners, you consent to Shore Scripts producing your Podcast episode and being listed as one of the Production Companies. The writer will have involvement during all stages of production and will always retain the ‘creator’ and ‘written by’ credits.

The writer(s) will retain full IP over their work.

The two winners consent to Shore Scripts promoting the winning Podcast online, to the media, at live events, and in any other capacity that will generate positive exposure.

If Shore Scripts, or a production company we introduce you to, commissions the winning podcast pilot for a full podcast series, television show, or feature film, we will be allocated one of the ‘Executive Producer’ credits. The winning writer(s) will have the final say on all potential commissioning offers.

If Shore Scripts helps a writer gain representation, option, sell or have his/her screenplay produced, then we are entitled to state this on our website and on any other platform, whenever we see fit. 

Shore Scripts staff and associates are unable to enter the Podcast Contest.

The decision of Shore Scripts is final. By applying to this contest each participant agrees to hold Shore Scripts, our judges and sponsors are immune from any competition disputes, claims, liabilities, and expenses.

By entering Shore Scripts, you authorize us to use any trusted third-party online, cloud-based, and email services and databases for hosting, managing, and/or sending/transmitting your submission file(s).

If we see fit, we can extend the final deadline for the competition. (Please note that this has never yet happened).