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Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards - Winter 2026
Winter 2026 Edition
•Now providing winners and selected finalists DIRECT EXPOSURE TO PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS!
•The 2025 Fall Contest is now open where every entry receives professional, studio-grade written feedback and analysis guaranteed to bring your script up to the truly marketable level
•This is the only screenplay competition established and managed by award-winning WGA writers, producers, show runners, and DGA directors
76 days left to enter
Santa Barbara Screenplay Awards Diverse Writers Outreach - Winter 2026
Winter 2026 Edition
•Now providing winners and selected finalists DIRECT EXPOSURE TO PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS! (See our website at https://www.wherehollywoodhides.com/ for details.)
•The FALL 2025 CONTEST IS NOW OPEN...WITH PROFESSIONAL WRITTEN FEEDBACK FOR EVERY ENTRY!
•Now, more than ever before, the world needs to hear from diverse writers who have important personal perspectives and stories to share with us.
76 days left to enter
Palm Springs Diversity Screenplay Contest - Winter 2026
Winter 2026 Edition
•Now providing winners and selected finalists DIRECT EXPOSURE TO PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS! (See our website at https://www.wherehollywoodhides.com/ for details.)\n\nTHE FALL 2025 COMPETITION IS NOW OPEN...with WGA Professional Analysis for EVERY ENTRY!\n\nNow, more than ever before, the world needs to hear from diverse writers who have important personal perspectives and stories to share with us.\n\nWe take great pride in and strive to celebrate writers with diverse and under-represented minority perspectives, including those who may be disadvantaged as members of ethnic, religious, racial, LGBTQIA+, disability, or 50+ age groups.\n\nSubject and theme "agnostic," we are focused on the diversity of writers and the personal generational, racial, ethnic, and sexual orientations they bring to the art and craft of screenwriting\n\nOur Senior Judging Panel is dedicated to finding the best diverse writing talent and to light the path forward to lasting industry success.\n
76 days left to enter
Palm Springs International Screenplay & Pitchdeck-Sizzle Reel - Trailer Contest - Winter 2026
Winter 2026 Edition
•This is the place to grab the attention of the film and television industry with your writing, filmmaking, and creative marketing skills.\n\nEvery entry receives 6-10pp of WGA Professional Analysis/Feedback
76 days left to enter
Wiki Screenplay Contest - January 2026
January 2026 Edition
•Is your script ready to show to agents...managers...producers?
•Find out FAST with a new contest every 30 days.
•Featuring industry professional judges with credits at every major studio.
17 days left to enter