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.

"Wooden Heart" by Maria de Luca
Genre: Drama

A young woman fights to save her grandfather’s seditious puppet show while dealing with two brothers, once her childhood friends, now part of the authoritarian regime, one a suitor, the other a traumatised soldier who brings the puppets to life.

"WHISTLEBLOWER" by T erry Morgan
Genre: Crime

Jim Smith, an ex-British politician, forced to flee abroad after threatening to expose massive fraud in international aid returns to renew his campaign. An international political thriller and study of an eccentric man who steadfastly refuses to fit into the stereotype of a modern politician.

"Visionary" by Claire Merchant

After getting corrective eye surgery, twenty-four-year-old high school teacher Cassia Reid opens her eyes to find that her vision is a lot better than she expected. Without her glasses, she can now see how people will die.

"The Darkness" by Robbi Bryant Bryant
Genre: Horror

In a stunning battle against evil, copycat killer Edward Olson must stop himself from killing his ultimate trophy, Caitlyn Derry, the daughter of his idol, the executed Lace Ribbon Killer.

"Paralyzed Without Fear" by JACQUE Dunkle
Genre: Drama

When a young daredevil's dreams are crushed by paralysis in a motorcycle crash, he faces life like he does fear - head on. Defying all odds, he goes rogue with his own ingenious life-risking plan to salvage his broken life and fulfill the dream of having a family, no matter what the cost.

"Day 3" by Bill Birney

A truly unbelievable break comes to a cynical, washed-up actor when he refuses to do a death scene on the last day of a movie shoot.

"Invasion of the Fifth Dimension" by Bill Birney
Genre: Sci-Fi

People of the earth take action when they learn their negative human traits are controlled by creatures from another dimension.

"Freedom" by Bill Birney
Genre: Sci-Fi

Two young people receive the ultimate punishment for prying into the secrets of a future dystopian civilization – their freedom.

"The Back Door" by Bill Birney

When a journalism student at a community college, interviews for an intern job she isn’t expecting to get thrown in the deep end.

"Something for Dr. Thode" by Bill Birney
Genre: Drama

A psychiatrist traveling to pick up a professional award has no idea the difficulties he will encounter and the gifts he will receive along the way.

"Killer in the Crowd " by Phil Johnson

Live music is in her blood, but as the death threats arrive, she fears there’s a killer in the crowd. Can teacher Cath take her mother’s place, and front her mum’s old band to inspire four ageing woman punks to catch a killer, and solve the mystery of what really happened to her missing mother?

"The Man Who Couldn't Stay Dead" by mayfly Read

A man is murdered in Italy. Hours later a boy is born in England with facial scars. He grows up with nightmares of being murdered. As an adult, he goes to Italy to find his killer using images from his nightmares. He then digs up his own body to retrieve the valuable object that is buried with it.

"The Come Up" by AlbieCullen Cullen
Genre: Drama

After being set up defense attorney Billy Sunday finds himself performing work release on the grounds crew of his nemeses' country club. For revenge Sunday bands together with a misfit crew of recovering addicts and migrant workers to exploit the club's annual high stakes “Four-Ball” Championship.

"Shooting Blanks" by oliviarosegarden Rose

"In a world where all boys are sterilised at birth; a man must meet the conditions of a formidable panel of women to have 'The Fix' reversed and marry the girl of his dreams."

"SILVERMANE" by Georges le Macon

Hunting the St. Lawerence Strangler, Dr. Bethany Lomax begins to believe there is a psychic link between herself and Canada’s most prolific child murderer.

"Secrets of the Deep" by Danielle Singleton
Genre: Crime

A dead millionaire. A fortune to be inherited. When everyone is a suspect, and everyone has a secret, will anyone ever know the truth?

"Safe & Sound" by Danielle Singleton

When Amy Millhouse and her sorority sisters travelled to Mexico for vacation, they never expected what would be waiting for them: sun, sand, and a drug cartel holding the girls ransom for everything they were worth – and more.

"Do No Harm" by Danielle Singleton

America's blood supply is supposed to be secure. But what would happen if it weren't? If a serial killer decided to hijack the tens of thousands of blood transfusions that occur daily, spreading an illness that killed everyone it touched?

"Every Star in the Sky" by Danielle Singleton
Genre: Romance

He's the son of an English Lord. She's a daughter of the American South. His family won't let her join their world. She won't let him give it all up for her. Can Richard and Rebecca's love stand the test of time and circumstance? Or will the ocean between their two worlds tear them apart forever?

"The Distillery - Raising the Bar" by Adir Golan
Genre: Drama

A Englishman in Hawaii operates an illegal distillery under cover of an actual legal one, clashing swords with a corrupt councilman who runs the liquor scene in town. Meanwhile, he does all he can to win over the councilman’s soon to be daughter-in-law.