Emerging Screenwriters
Emerging Screenwriters Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition
2023
Active Since 2021
Do you have a great sci-fi or fantasy script that's ready for the industry? This contest is a celebration of traditional and idiosyncratic sci-fi and fantasy narratives.
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2025 Semifinalists on Coverfly

Top 4%
TV Script  · Sci-fi  · 45 Pages
White House Press Secretary Grace Harrison has recurring dreams of a daughter she thought she lost in childbirth twelve years ago. When unidentified aircrafts arrive in Washington, DC, Grace discovers that they are from an alien planet and one of their inhabitants looks like the twelve year-old daughter from her dreams. Can a mother and daughter sep...
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Los Angeles, CA
Jennica is currently the Writers’ Assistant on the upcoming adult animated comedy series BREAKING BEAR to be released on Tubi. She grew up in suburban Sacramento, California and travels there whenever possible to help care for her mother who suffered a massive stroke, leaving her nonverbal. From experiencing this reversal of mother-daughter roles to...
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Top 11%
TV Script  · Sci-fi  · 47 Pages
Still reeling from past trauma, a college student invents a way to see into the past to find his brother and learn who abducted him years ago. But his discovery soon grabs the attention of the United States Government Engineering Acquisitions Repository, or USGEAR - an agency dedicated to preventing mankind’s most dangerous creations from ever seein...
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Denton, TX
Zach Brown is a writer with a degree in Radio-TV-Film from the University of North Texas, and a graduate of the AMTC (Actors, Models and Talent for Christ) acting workshop. Zach was active in the Dallas-area standup comedy scene for 4 years but is now pursuing his love of screenwriting. He recently went from 330 lbs to 205 lbs all from the keto diet...
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Top 9%
Feature  · Sci-fi  · 115 Pages
A courageous young women named Luna is taken by a group of curious aliens that left stranded on a dangerous barren wasteland of a planet. Back on Earth, Ted, her so-called boyfriend, searches and searches for Luna to no avail. On the alien planet, Luna’s unwavering determination and resourcefulness defies the odds, and she survives the harsh conditi...
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Founder of CREDO LLC. We specialize in Script Writing (Screenplays), Artistic & Graphic Designs, Website Management, and IT Management. Over three decades of experience serving in executive key strategic planning roles to include Senior Policy Advisor, Information Manager, Program Manager, oversight for programming, budgeting, resourcing of complex ...
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