2023 Screenplay Award Longlist

Page Turner Awards is delighted to announce our 2022 Screenplay Award Longlist, shown in random order!

Please join us in congratulating these rising stars by leaving them a comment at the bottom of their finalist submission. Click 'see more' to read their submission. And you can also congratulate the writers in our forum.

Wherever you see duplicate faces, it's not a mistake, those writers are to be applauded for having more than one submission reach the finals!

Find entrants by adding a first name or surname into the search box below, don't search with both first name and surname.

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Olga Holtz for "Dark Matter"
Genre: Suspense & Thriller

Stowe Story Labs alumna. Writer/director of an award-winning short THE ZAHIR. Trilingual multi-ethnic multinational. Mathematician whose journey led from humble beginnings in the Urals to professorships in Berkeley and Berlin. Olga's writing explores follies of genius, elusiveness of belonging, and

Meredith Wargo for "DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them"
Genre: Non-Fiction

Meredith Wargo is an award-winning author and advocate for animals. The recipient of four Maxwell Medallions from the Dog Writers of Association of America, she has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Although a native Texan, Meredith currently lives in southern

Naomi Lamont for "Deceit"
Genre: Drama

I’ve been writing for many years and have published The Devils' Cradle novel (under my pseudonym Darcy Daniel), which has fantastic reviews on Amazon. Winner of TopShelf Magazine's Indie Book Awards for "The Devils' Cradle" under the pseudonym Darcy Daniel - available on Amazon: https://www.amazon

Nick Harrison for "The Training Room"
Genre: Comedy & Humour

Since attaining my MA in Play and Screenwriting – graduating from City, University of London, in 2014 – I have had three plays successfully produced in London, commissioned and directed by Martin Parr, known for producing work in unconventional spaces. Consequently, with a produced two-hander, one

Olga Holtz for "The Untamed"
Genre: Historical Fiction

Stowe Story Labs alumna. Writer/director of an award-winning short THE ZAHIR. Trilingual multi-ethnic multinational. Mathematician whose journey led from humble beginnings in the Urals to professorships in Berkeley and Berlin. Olga's writing explores follies of genius, elusiveness of belonging, and

Georges le Macon for "SILVERMANE"
Genre: Suspense & Thriller

Some of my biggest inspirations creatively are Stephen King, Thomas Harris, William Peter Blatty, William Goldman and Kenneth Lonergan. I aspire to one day make these novelists and screenwriters my competition and hope that people will compare me to them favourably. I’m confident I’ll achieve this

Robert Simpson for "A Story of the London Fog"
Genre: Drama

I am an Independent film maker based in Knoxville, TN working as a producer and editor in film and TV. A graduate of the University of Tennessee and The New York Film Academy, I began my film work with a series of Shakespeare film adaptations: Hamlet, Twelfth Night and Macbeth. I also have produced

Alysha Haran for "The Ride"
Genre: Drama

Alysha grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, performing on the professional stage from the age of five. She found her place on the other side of the camera and produced commercials and music videos for several years in Los Angeles. But after a last-minute change of plans kept her from traveling on

Jeremy Danger for "Pear"
Genre: Action Adventure

I live in Los Angeles with my lovely wife and cats. I’ve been working in the industry for almost ten years as a producer/director/DP. The majority of my work is music-videos for well-known artists (A Perfect Circle, Iggy Pop, Cypress Hill, Cold Cave, to name a few). I'm on the long, hard road of

Brian Bossetta for "$old"
Genre: Comedy & Humour

Brian Bossetta is a native of New Orleans, a die-hard Saints fan, a frequent consumer of classical music, jazz, dark beer and Scotch — a photographer, a woefully average guitar player, avid runner, dog lover and eternally struggling writer still trying to determine if writing the great American

Olga Holtz for "A Labour of Love"
Genre: True Stories

Stowe Story Labs alumna. Writer/director of an award-winning short THE ZAHIR. Trilingual multi-ethnic multinational. Mathematician whose journey led from humble beginnings in the Urals to professorships in Berkeley and Berlin. Olga's writing explores follies of genius, elusiveness of belonging, and

Erasmo Acosta for "K3+"
Genre: Sci-Fi

Erasmo Acosta was born in Cantaura, a small town in Venezuela, and moved to the United States in 1996 to pursue a software engineering career sponsored by a small Silicon Valley company. He retired to Portland, Oregon, in 2020 after achieving 32 successful years in the industry. In 2015, he became

Salvatore Bono for "Callers to Our World"
Genre: Sci-Fi

Sal brings a jetsetter's suitcase full of experiences to his writing. He is the son of Sicilian immigrants, a U.S.A.F. Veteran in SATCOM and Aircraft Maintenance, a government contractor, drummer, and former restauranteur. Having seen the world through a traveler's eyes -- living it with the wonder

Alan Fleet for "Woollyback"
Genre: Drama

Alan travelled extensively in the international oil and gas industry as a marine geophysicist and it was during his time off that he first began writing novels for adults. Following the selection of his third novel, Woollyback, for a tutored adaptation for the silver screen, Alan went on to complete