Screenplay Award 2022

Michael and Mandi come from drastically different backgrounds. He, from relative comfort. She, from systemic abuse since childhood. Their attraction is instant and they’re determined to be together, but Mandi’s past, and her current abuser, put both their love, and their lives, on the line.

Payden Beck, PI, is ready to retire. When a young girl tries to hire him, he gives her the sad news. But, when she makes her plight clear, he knows he must take her case, even if it means confronting a police force on the take, the Spanish Mafia, and, perhaps worst of all, her family.

Payden Beck and his partner, Bryan Verrill, lose their first major case as detectives. Payden doesn’t take it well. When the accused disappears after trial, Payden finds himself the subject of investigation. His possible involvement in the disappearance could mean his career, if not his life.

When an eager police academy graduate is asked by his training officer to watch over his wife for the weekend in his absence, he feels he’s living his dream. But when his training officer is found at home, dead, the following Monday, his perfect weekend quickly becomes his worst nightmare.

Being black in early 1960's racially torn Alabama your outlook was grim at best. What if you were a white supremacist, woke up one morning and found yourself with black skin and the black person you bullied the day before now wore your white skin? Would you hold onto to your racist views or change?

Mountain Dream is an inspirational memoir about the author's unlikely trip to Everest, the author takes readers along for every triumph and every near defeat, in the hopes that the story, will motivate others to take their own adventures and forge their own paths.

With an unusual happiness haunting the world, four strangers receive mysterious invitations from an unseen entity to come to a remote desert on Christmas Eve to witness something extraordinary. First, they must uncover the reason they were chosen if they are to survive what is about to happen.

Natalie Edwards wakes to realize her nightmares are now her reality as past lives resurrect. Will she survive the demons that stalk her, decipher the visions, and harness her own abilities or lose her life as she did in each nightmare? Her innate gifts awaken to reveal shocking truths.

A woman is contacted by her high school crush and soon marries him, unaware he's the alien president and their wedding was a campaign strategy.

Geckos and Guns is the story of the Bazant family’s five years in Pakistan—a time of adjusting to new and different surroundings, of embracing cultural differences, and of recognizing imminent danger.

Celebrates the indomitable courage embodied by young biracial lawyer Vashti Warner who, at age 34, is diagnosed with multiple myeloma. Here are penetrating insights into Vashti’s ability to understand her own mortality, articulate her illuminating lessons, and bravely face death on her own terms.

Paul Bourton is a depressed man in his forties, disaffected with his failing career developing high-rise properties for the wealthy and in desperate need of a financial boost himself. He has bought someone else’s life insurance – could it offer him salvation?

A divorcee and her young daughter, both displaced from their home in the country and now residing in Pittsburgh, struggle together to overcome a turbulent past – with the assistance of the “peace-making” rifle that once belonged to ancestor Lucas McCain.

A tempestuous romance between a bookish young woman about to start medical school and a traveling concertmaster turns into a complicated game of desire.

A deadly storm, a miraculous survivor, and a horrific new ability may be the only chance of survival for two kidnapped girls. The first of a four-book series, Prax blends global mythologies with torn-from-the-headlines realism to confront the issues of human trafficking in the American Midwest.

Grounded in historical truth and inspired by the will to live, FORZA curates death-defying drama peppered with comedy emotionally reminiscent of European writers . After the Nazi death train, the squad must survive an Odyssean journey if they ever hope to taste Sicily's sun again.

Following a forgotten childhood encounter with an otherworldly boy, a disillusioned office worker's brother returns from travelling, claiming to have the ability to 'astral view' other dimensions.

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.

When a young American journalist, travels from New York to Franco’s Spain in 1958 a terrifying dictatorship is revealed. A love affair was not expected, and this, combined with unearthing unspeakable tragedies, join hands to take him on a rollercoaster of raw emotion, culminating in a bitter end.

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