Prizes

Champion Screenwriting Competition

GRAND PRIZE

  • $10,000 cash
  • 10 pitches from VirtualPitchFest.com
  • A year-long membership to itsonthegrid.com
  • A seat in the week-long Champion Screenwriting Lab
  • Proofreading from Reader Ready
  • An Inktip Prize Package
  • Two career coaching sessions with Rhona Berens, Ph.D.
  • A script development package including notes from Jim Mercurio
  • John Truby genre DVD
  • Script and/or synopsis to be read by several production Companies

SECOND PLACE

  • $2,000 cash
  • 10 pitches from VirtualPitchFest.com
  • A year-long membership to itsonthegrid.com
  • A seat in the week-long Champion Screenwriting Lab
  • Proofreading from Reader Ready
  • An Inktip Prize Package
  • Two career coaching sessions with Rhona Berens, Ph.D.
  • A script development package including notes from Jim Mercurio
  • John Truby genre DVD
  • Script and/or synopsis to be read by several production Companies

THIRD PLACE

  • $1000 cash
  • 10 pitches from VirtualPitchFest.com
  • A year-long membership to itsonthegrid.com
  • A seat in the week-long Champion Screenwriting Lab
  • Proofreading from Reader Ready
  • An Inktip Prize Package
  • Two career coaching sessions with Rhona Berens, Ph.D.
  • John Truby genre DVD
  • Notes from a Champion Reader
  • Script and/or synopsis to be read by several production Companies

LOW BUDGET PRIZE

  • $500 cash OR $1000 option agreement.
  • 10 pitches from VirtualPitchFest.com
  • A year-long membership to itsonthegrid.com
  • A seat in the week-long Champion Screenwriting Lab
  • Proofreading from Reader Ready
  • An Inktip Prize Package
  • Two career coaching sessions with Rhona Berens, Ph.D.
  • Notes from a Champion Reader
  • Script and/or synopsis to be read by several production Companies

20 FEATURE SEMIFINALISTS

  • A seat in the week-long Champion Screenwriting Lab with Jim Mercurio
  • 10 pitches from VirtualPitchFest.com
  • A year-long membership to itsonthegrid.com
  • Proofreading sample and Logline/Query Letter help from Reader Ready
  • Two career coaching sessions with Rhona Berens, Ph.D.
  • One logline listing in an issue of InkTip Magazine
  • Script and/or synopsis to be read by several production Companies

SHORTS WINNERS

BEST DRAMA

BEST COMEDY

BEST SHORT SHORT (three pages or less)

TELEVISION

BEST COMEDY (1/2 hour or hour)

  • $1,000 Cash
  • A seat in Ellen Sandler’s private TV Workshop in Los Angeles and a copy of her The TV Writer’s Workbook
  • Career and script feedback from a professional TV writer

BEST DRAMA (1/2 hour or hour)

  • $1,000 Cash
  • A seat in Ellen Sandler’s private TV Workshop in Los Angeles and a copy of her The TV Writer’s Workbook
  • Career and script feedback from a professional TV writer

BEST PILOT (comedy or drama; hour or half-hour)

  • $1,000 Cash
  • A seat in Ellen Sandler’s private TV Workshop in Los Angeles and a copy of her The TV Writer’s Workbook
  • Career and script feedback from a professional TV writer

TOP 10 TV WRITERS

  • A seat in Ellen Sandler’s private TV Workshop in Los Angeles and a copy of her The TV Writer’s Workbook

EARLY BIRD PRIZE

  • A quarterfinalist from both the TV and Screenplay category who entered before the Early Bird Deadline will be randomly chosen for the TV Lab and Champion Lab, respectively.

CHAMPION SCENE AND PITCH COMPETITION

SCENE WRITING

TOP 10 SCENE WRITERS

All 10 semifinalists will be invited to a private online Scene Writing Class with Jim Mercurio, author of Linden Publishing’s upcoming book, The Craft of Scene Writing: 14 Steps to a Better Screenplay.

Best Dramatic Scene

  • $250 Cash

Best Comedy Scene

  • $250 Cash

Most Audacious Scene

  • $250 Cash

ALL ENTRANTS

We may find a few scenes we likes, so all entrants will be eligible to accept (or decline) a license offer to have their scene or revised scene featured in an educational book, ebook or DVD to be published or produced by A-List Screenwriting.

PITCH

WINNER

  • $250 Cash plus a development package worth more than $3000 that includes Script Coaching from Jim Mercurio and notes from manager Andrew Kersey.
  • 10 pitches from VirtualPitchFest.com
  • Logline/Query Letter help from Reader Ready
  • An Inktip Prize Package

THREE SEMI-FINALISTS

  • $100 Cash
  • 10 pitches from VirtualPitchFest.com
  • Logline/Query Letter help from Reader Ready
  • An Inktip Prize Package