09 January 2015

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

Contests For Specs

Contests For Features



(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)