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The Women's List
The Women's List
2025
Reads in Coverfly
Active Since 2
The Women’s List is not a contest; it’s a treasure hunt. We’re looking for as many outstanding scripts written by women as we can find.
Accepting Features and TV Pilots
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About

The Women's List is a project designed to discover excellent, camera-ready feature and TV pilot scripts that might otherwise languish unseen in a slush pile. The Women's List  is a non-profit organization created by a volunteer group of WGA writers, DGA directors,  SAG actors and other industry professionals whose goal is to make The Women's List the go-to resource for over-looked women writers and for the filmmakers looking to discover their stories.  The scripts on our list are not only written by women but vetted by women professionals. They are stories we want to see, stories we think the world will want to see.

Prices & Deadlines

May 8th
Regular
May 31st
Late
Feature, One-hour Pilot, 1//2 Hour Pilot
$55.00
$70.00

Benefits

The great prize is being chosen by your peers to be on the list. Once chosen, our team of volunteers will send personal emails to producers, directors, actors, agents and managers inviting them to read. We'll also make countless social media posts promoting the scripts. We hope our efforts will eventually result in these scripts being produced, and getting a read is a vital step in that process.

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2024 Selections on Coverfly

Top 1%
Feature  · Drama  · 115 Pages
When a resilient WWII army nurse and her team are shot down over Nazi-occupied Albania in winter 1943, they make a harrowing escape over the treacherous Accursed Mountains and across hundreds of miles of enemy territory, relying on grit and the help of an Albanian opposition leader with his own agenda.
Woodland Hills, California
I’m an LA-based writer obsessed with telling stories about underestimated heroes forced to answer, “What would you do for family?” As the mom of a bio and an adopted kid, “family” means adoptive, step, found, & traditional. I've recently optioned a script to an A-lister and my indy horror feature , “Murder Van” comes out in 2025. Other scripts...
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Top 1%
Feature  · Drama  · 108 Pages
A suburban housewife in the midst of an existential crisis decides to run away and end it all. But when she stumbles upon an unplugged community of creative misfits, she rediscovers the artist she once was.
Susan Brunig fell in love with cinema while studying experimental film at Binghamton University. Her script, The Surveillance of Ordinary Things is a Nicholl Top 50 semifinalist, a Cinestory Fellowship Winner and Final Draft Big Break Drama winner. She writes diverse, female-driven indie dramas and is an unflinching examiner of human behavior throu...
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The Beginning of the End
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TV Script  · Comedy  · 39 Pages
The Beginning of the End: A depressed suburban housewife feels like she's drowning in debt and, like any rational forty-something woman, turns to a transient man living in an RV for help.
  • Verified WGA Member
Studio City, California
Erica Spates is the eldest of five and moved around a lot growing up. As a kid this was hard, but as a writer it's been invaluable. Erica's lived everywhere from rural Vermont, to the wealthy suburbs of Georgia, to the busy streets of New York City. This has given her insight into a variety of cultures and economic backgrounds. Erica has over thirt...
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Announcements

Jul 15th
Finalists

Rules

The Women's List is open to all writers who identify as women. Please submit just one script per writer or writing team. Choose your best! Feature scripts must be 120 pages or less, one-hour pilot scripts must be 65 pages or less, and half-hour pilots must be 45 pages or less.  Blind submissions only. The name of the script should be the only thing on the title page. Do not put any identifying information anywhere on the script. No names, agent contacts, registration information, logos for previous awards, or anything else that could tell readers who you are and, potentially, influence their opinion.