SCRIPT/SCREENPLAY COMPETITIONS - 2015

Network Programs

• *NBC Late Night Writers Workshop (Jan 10 - 24) - Read packet requirements carefully. Sketches, desk bits and monologue jokes.
• Nickolodeon Writing Program (Jan 2 - Feb 28) - Requires a comedy half-hour spec of a show that’s on-air and has been for more than one season. Also, you have to mail this one in.
• NBC Writers on the Verge (May 1 - May 31 submission window) - Requires a spec of any scripted show (one hour or half hour) that aired new episodes in the 2014-2015 season.
• WB Writers’ Workshop (May 1 - May 31 submission window) - List of accepted specs here (requires pilot for second round)
• *Disney/ABC Talent Development (May 1) - Requires both an original pilot and a spec.
• CBS Diversity Writers Mentoring Program (May) - Requires two samples, one original. Must be mailed. Unsure of “diversity” requirements. I don’t know a lot about this one. CBS’s programs seem very weird.

Fox has one but you have to be recommended and/or previously staffed.

Contests For Pilots

• Script Pipeline TV (Early Deadline Dec 31, Final May 1*)
• *Scriptapalooza TV (April 14/May 15)
• PAGE Awards (Jan 15/Feb 16/Mar 16/Apri 15 final)
• *Script Pipeline First Look (June 15)
• *Final Draft Big Break (April 30/July 31)
• *Austin Film Festival (April 30/May 31)
• *Slamdance (Apr 8/July 22)

Contests For Specs

• Script Pipeline TV (Early Deadline Dec 31, Final May 1*)
• *Scriptapalooza TV (April 14/May 15)
• *Final Draft Big Break (April 30/July 31)
• *Austin Film Festival (April 30/May 31)

Contests For Features

• *Scriptapalooza Features (April 14/April 21)
• Script Pipeline Screenwriting Contest (Early Deadline Dec 31, Final May 1*)
• PAGE Awards (Jan 15/Feb 16/Mar 16/Apri 15 final)
• *Austin Film Festival (April 30/May 31)
• *Final Draft Big Break (April 30/July 31)
• *Nicholl Fellowship (May 1)
• *Slamdance (Apr 8/July 22)
• TrackingB (opens in June)

(If additional links to other contests are submitted through "COMMENTS" I'll publish them in Comments.  I believe the list above includes contests of proven integrity and value. The others might be also, but the reader will have to research for themselves. - Slug the Lines)