Harvardwood Writers Competition |
2025
The Harvardwood Writers Competition was founded to recognize superior work by Harvard writers and give them the chance to gain industry exposure.
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Finalists
Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 99 Pages
30 years after ordering toys from the back of a comic book, a group of childhood friends-turned-jaded adults receives the toys in the mail... and they actually work.
Cambridge, MA
Joey has made several short films in collaboration with the Harvard Office for the Arts. He also writes film reviews for The Harvard Crimson and comedy pieces for The Harvard Lampoon.
Finalist
TV Script
· Animated
· 35 Pages
In a retro 80s video game, an employee at a generically evil corporation navigates downsizing, blackmailing, and countless
spiked pits.
Los Angeles, CA
Michael is a writer living in Los Angeles. Originally from suburban Chicago, Michael attended Harvard University, getting a B.A. in Government and Film Studies. His script "Newsperson" won Best Original Comedy Pilot at the Austin Film Festival in 2015. Most recently he wrote for the animated series "Clash-A-Rama!", having started as the show's write...
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Crosswords
Private
Finalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 19 Pages
A son attempts to relocate his aging mother to an institution, which in turn sparks a confrontation about his hidden lifestyle.
Chicago, IL
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 90 Pages
Gulliver Saltonstall, a wannabe cowboy and college dropout, returns to his ancestral New England estate, where his eccentric grandfather—a Patton-quoting modern day Don Quixote—ropes him into a surreal battle against the Mass DOT. Meanwhile, his wayward friends pursue their own wild quest to find their supposed father, WWE legend Rey Mysterio, pulli...
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No bio yet, but trust me he's working on it...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
The intersecting stories of four Texas women in a weekly lunch club.
NY, NY
No bio available.
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Mazel Tov?
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 106 Pages
Jennifer always said she'd support her kids no matter what. But when her son Max announces that he is Orthodox and getting married ASAP, she must find a way to get him to the chuppah with her family and sanity intact.
Yael Schick is a writer and educator living in New York City. She graduated from Yeshiva University (yeah, she's super Jewish) with a degree in English in 2010, and has been writing, directing, and doing all other writerly things ever since. Her screenplay, BLESSING, was a semifinalist and a top 50 in the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowship.
Finalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 40 Pages
A teenage girl navigates modern-day cancellation after dressing up as Anne Frank for a school project.
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 37 Pages
Two ugly teenage mermaids become the subject of a nature documentary cataloging their achingly embarrassing high school experiences.
Los Angeles, California
Gwen Thomas is a comedian and writer in Los Angeles. She currently writes for The Onion. Her animated comedy Not That Deep won the Harvardwood 2025 Writing Competition, where she was additionally awarded the title of "Most Staffable Writer." Her humor writing has also appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Weekly Humorist, and Buzzfeed. She perf...
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The Cold After
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 106 Pages
This logline was hidden by the writer.
No bio available.
The Final Days of Boatsland
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 39 Pages
The eccentric ruler (and sole resident) of a self- proclaimed micronation is forced to contend with society when Rhode Island decides that it's finally time to "invade" his cruise ship home.
New York, NY
James had a really funny bio but he deleted it so how about you just imagine it in this gap? [ ] Hahaha yeah that sure is funny, huh!
Finalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 75 Pages
When a starry-eyed amateur photographer loses her
boorish husband in a brutal factory fire, she snaps, taking the
next train out to see the marvelous World’s Fair in St. Louis.
No bio available.
Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 104 Pages
When Harry Dreyfus, the popular owner of a café in Boston, becomes romantically involved with a Harvard student, he can’t imagine that in the next year, the President of Harvard will lead an investigation hunting down gay students, but also threaten Harry's business and livelihood with a vengeance. Inspired by true events.
Amsterdam, NL
Connor started paid writing gigs by editing PhD dissertations and academic journal articles, continued with expository writing in tech policy, and only after years of writing persuasive reports and papers at the office decided that it was time to switch to a real narrative medium: screenwriting.
Although forever a New Englander in their heart, toda...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 52 Pages
At a crossroads in her life, the ambitious Black attorney general of Louisiana must confront the demons that have literally haunted her family since slavery.
Riverdale, MD
Victor A. Kwansa, Esq. is a Ghanaian-American writer and attorney from Prince George's County, Maryland. He was a participant in the 2023 Harvardwood Feature Writing Intensive, and he was also a finalist in the 2023 Harvardwood Writers Competition. Victor received a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University in 2008, and he graduated from Harvar...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 60 Pages
Former Yale Admissions secretary starts a college consulting empire, juggling ethics, global elites, jaw-dropping schemes and adversaries. Inspired by true events.
It's WORKING GIRL meets SUITS with a hint of GOSSIP GIRL
West Newton, MA
Laurie McKinsey is a Harvard MBA and Boston-based entrepreneur-turned-screenwriter who has lived all across the US, Europe and Asia. Drawing from her experience as an Ivy League mom and volunteer college advisor to disadvantaged students, she exposes the uneven playing field in higher ed.
She loves to write badass female protagonists. Some would ...
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