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ScreenCraft Horror Competition
2018
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“The industry’s #1 horror screenplay contest.” – IndieWire. Our jury is scary good, featuring talent reps from Zero Gravity, Gersh, Energy Entertainment, and more!
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ScreenCraft is looking for the best feature horror screenplays!

Past winners of the ScreenCraft Horror Competition have signed with top literary managers and agents.

Our Hollywood judges have produced some of the most iconic horror and dark-genre films of the last decade. Get your screenplay to these killer producers and launch your screenwriting career. Horror is one of the proven genres for newcomers to the craft – and we are looking for talented new writers. Check out this year's jury:

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the screenwriters of A QUIET PLACE, the surprise 2018 blockbuster (starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt) that topped the box office two weekends in a row!

Ryan Turek, VP of Development at Blumhouse Productions (company credits include PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, INSIDIOUS, SINISTER, OCULUS, THE PURGE, OUIJA, THE GREEN INFERNO, Academy-award nominee WHIPLASH and UNFRIENDED). Turek is also the founder of popular horror website ShockTillYouDrop.com.

Andrew Wilson Manager at Zero Gravity, the production and management company behind dozens of genre films, as well as such top Hollywood talent as Katherine Heigl, Madison Iseman, Will Yun Lee, Maggie Grace, Dolph Lundgren, Kellan Lutz and many more.

Kailey Marsh Manager / Producer and CEO of Kailey Marsh Media as well as the creator of Bloodlist.com & BloodList, the highly anticipated annual list of best-unproduced horror and dark genre screenplays in Hollywood. Kailey’s clients include multiple staffed writers & directors as well as clients writing projects for studios.

Sean McKittrick, Film Producer of DONNIE DARKO, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES and Jordan Peele’s recent blockbuster GET OUT!

Benefits

The winner will receive $1,000 writing grant, development with the ScreenCraft team, and you will have a meeting with a literary manager, plus your work will be introduced to ScreenCraft's partners at production companies, agencies, studios, and literary management firms.

Writer Success

The ScreenCraft Horror Competition completely changed the trajectory of my career as a screenwriter and director. Before winning the competition, I was getting a little traction on my script, but nothing solid. Now, I have a fantastic manager thanks to ScreenCraft, and am well on my way to getting my film made! The ScreenCraft team is so wonderful and really spends time working with their finalists and winners to make sure they are able to form a career plan that ensures success.
Ariel Sinelnikoff
2022 Winner
My script RAGE placed as a Finalist in the 2020 Horror Screenplay competition. The result of that is a production company has optioned it and has a savvy, beloved horror film director attached. When you write your nightmares passionately on the page — dreams become realities!
Don Roff
2020 Finalist
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2025 Winners on Coverfly

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Coalescence
Feature  · Horror  · 97 Pages
A fanatical religious family on a small rural farm spirals into insanity as they grapple with the terrifying effects of a world-changing, cosmic event.
by Jason Miller 1 Accolade
Jason Miller
Conway, Arkansas
Jason is a writer/director whose upbringing in a small southern town contributes to his stories about hardship and struggles of identity — often in the modes of horror and horror-adjacent, as with his 2023 directorial debut GHOSTS OF THE VOID. After writing and directing several well-received short films throughout his time in film school, Jaso...
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Final Girl F*ck*ry
TV Script  · Horror  · 38 Pages
Mel's trained to be a Final Girl her entire life-- and she gets her chance when her agnostic preacher father takes her to summer camp. Stakes heat up when they realize their ill-fated family trip is fated to begin the Apocalypse.
by Sophie Mutiara Nova 7 Accolades
Sophie Mutiara Nova
Valencia, California
Final Girl fanatic Sophie Mutiara Nova is a queer, half-Indonesian, SLE-diagnosed Writer-Director. (Writing Fellow of the ACEX TV Initiative, Finalist of the Emmy's TV Academy Foundation Directing Program). Their TV series have won the Launchpad Pilot Competition, ScreenCraft Horror Competition, and many others; their film work's screened in festi...
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The Hair Pin
Feature  · Horror  · 100 Pages
In a small village, the community holds a monthly lottery to determine which of their children will make a “small sacrifice” to the flesh-eating spirits of their dead ancestors, but after the death of her sister, a 16-year-old girl desperately seeks the truth and end the villagers’ suffering before they are slowly devoured by the past.
by L. Quimby 1 Accolade
L. Quimby
MD
Laura’s writing journey began in the bunny-eat-bunny world of children’s publishing. She published two middle grade novels before venturing into the indie world, where she published a series of paranormal mysteries. Always ambitious, she thought why not try her hand at screenwriting, because it seemed like a highly stable career choice. She’s a love...
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