Screenplay Award 2022

The Page Turner Award's Screenplay Award is for screenwriters who want to place their writing in front of film producers, and for authors who would like to see their books adapted to film.

"Fallen Star: A Return to Self through the Eight Limbs of Yoga" by Molly Chanson
Genre: Memoir

Wife and mom commits to a daily yoga practice while searching for the truth of her husband's infidelity and battling her own addiction. While seeking answers, she ends up finding herself, and learns of the profound healing available during our darkest times.

"The Ministry of Time Travel" by Sylvia Bluck

What if you accidentally travelled back in time and had no idea how to get home?

"The Dragon, The Witch and The Thirteen" by Sarah coyne Coyne

Ava doubts the power and magic inside of her until one day her father is taken by an evil force which threatens to destroy the world. Her father is an archaeologist, Professor Riley who leaves Ava a cryptic clue in his published field journal, The Hieroglyphic Fae, not to follow him, but she does!

"Loving the Enemy - Building bridges in a time of war" by Andy March
Genre: Memoir

Brilliant King's scholar, Fred Clayton, leaves the comfort of the halls of Cambridge at the beginning of the Nazi era to discover first-hand what life must be like to live under the despotic regime. Arriving in Dresden, he develops a friendship with a German family that will change his life.

"She Was Only 32" by Shewasonly32 Richardson
Genre: Memoir

She Was Only 32
A Soul Connection That Survived Beyond the Grave

"A Warrior Still" by M.C. Thomas

A young Marine Corps veteran, wounded and discharged after a deadly mission in the Caribbean, jumps back into the line of fire when he's hired by a spirited music star, who needs protection from traffickers claiming her to be the long-lost daughter of an island dictator.

"An American Househusband in India" by Gregory Buford Buford

​A hilarious, heart-warming tale of a company man turned trailing spouse when his wife gets his dream job and drags him halfway around the globe.

"Triple Jeopardy" by Norman Bacal Bacal
Genre: Drama

Identical twin brothers reconnect after a long estrangement. Each carries an understanding of events twenty years ago that almost destroyed one of them and has threatened to undo the other. What have they each sacrificed and how far will they go to protect one another? Where does their path lead?

"Japanese For Baseball" by Ray Keller
Genre: Drama

In 1943 rural Colorado, when a resourceful teenager's high school baseball team doesn't have enough players, he recruits three boys from the nearby Japanese internment camp, but when the town's violent, racist mayor finds out, nobody is safe. (Inspired by actual events.)