Important announcement: Coverfly services are closed

Coverfly discontinued services on September 1st.

For information on competitions, labs, fellowships, and other valuable screenwriting opportunities, we invite you to visit our friends at FilmFreeway.

Thank you for being a part of the Coverfly community. We wish you the best with in your screenwriting career.

— The Coverfly Team

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Final Draft
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Enter to share over $80,000 in cash and prizes and get your script in the hands of industry reps!
 
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Shore Scripts
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The 2025 Spring Season of the Shore Scripts Short Film Fund will award a $15,000 cash production grant to one short script and $4,000 cash in finishing funds to one short film in post-production. Plus, free camera equipment rental from ARRI Rental, mentorship from two-time Oscar-nominated producer, festival strategy package from Tribeca programmer, and more.
Industry Judges include Farah Nabulsi, Kimberley Browning, Corin Taylor, Libby Peterson, Oliver Shuster and 11 more
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Barnstorm
The Grand Jury Prize winner chooses between $5,000 cash or a $5,000 screenplay option! Every script receives actionable and constructive feedback!
 
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Book Pipeline
The 2025 Book Pipeline Unpublished contest seeks new manuscripts across ten categories of fiction and nonfiction, including comics and graphic novels.
 
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Atlanta Film Festival
Coverfly is shutting down on August 1st, 2025. We are accepting submissions for ATLFF 2026 on FilmFreeway: Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
 
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Book Pipeline
The Book Pipeline: Adaptation contest seeks published fiction and nonfiction (self or trad), comics, and short stories for film & TV development.
 
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The 8th Annual Film Pipeline Short Script Competition awards $5,000 and supports writers and writer-directors looking to move their projects forward.
 
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New Media Film Festival
An innovative and award-winning festival created in 2009, Honoring Stories Worth Telling. "Festivals Worth The Entry Fee".-MovieMakerMagazine All Nominees receive perks including All Access Badge, VIP Soiree, Red Carpet your script title is screened in the theater, Q&A and more. Full Details at www.newmediafilmfestival.com/submit
 
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Renowned as the “future of the filmed arts," Cinequest provides a bastion of discovery that launches careers and empowers writers to take flight.
 
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ScreenCraft Recommended
ScreenCraft
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This career changing fellowship has led to dozens of writers signed by representation. Fellows have been hired to write for Netflix, Apple TV+, ABC, Amazon, FX, NBC, Hulu, and more.
Mentors include Alex Convery, Anna Fishko and Shukree Tilghman
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