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.

"The Brahmin Girl" by John Picciano

The investigation of the grizzly murder of an unidentified teenaged savant in Maine leads the town's police chief, a young criminology student, who solved the cold case twenty years after the fact, and a retired FBI agent through a forty five year maze of intrigue, revenge, and eventually, justice.

"Clampdown" by RAAkerlund Akerlund
Genre: Fantasy

Clampdown is a fictional story about a forgotten dystopian society that resembles a 1970’s northern UK town.
The people who live there are divided into four groups, The Skinheads, The Mods, The punks and The Goths. The groups' war to get what they want and no one is safe. Welcome to Clampdown.

"The Rainbow Crossing Academy" by Jacob Sarkisian
Genre: LGBT

A troubled young gay man tries to become straight by joining a conversion camp, but his attraction to an alluring fellow student makes things difficult.

"Gloves" by Michael Clifton
Genre: Horror

After years of co-dependency, a resentful mother and bedridden daughter take cruel steps to change up their relationship.

"A Good Death" by Chris Leonard
Genre: Drama

An inspirational episodic series about a dedicated hospice nurse and his colleagues, striving to give terminally ill patients a ‘good death’ despite their hospice’s financial challenges and the emotional toll it has on their personal lives.

"In Country" by Chris Leonard
Genre: Drama

When a teenage boy is murdered in a small UK town, his parents piece together what their son was involved in and must fight to protect their son’s pregnant girlfriend from a county lines drug gang hunting for stolen money.

"Life Patterns" by Damian Santamaria

A famous fashion designer escapes the superficial and destructive nature of the corporate fast-fashion industry and begins a new life in the secluded Peruvian-Andes in an attempt to reconnect with himself and, in doing so returns the dignity and power of the Amazon Rainforest to its native people.

"TAMMY AND WILLOW" by Gillian Young

A much-loved pet dog dies and struggles along with its owner to adjust - until a puppy comes along and befriends them both.

"The Box in the Closet" by Jayne Doxtater
Genre: Memoir

A happily married aesthetician is living the small town dream, but when she finds a box in the closet full of women's lingerie, she realizes her soulmate isn't who she thinks he is.

"The Box in the Closet" by Jayne Doxtater
Genre: LGBT

A happily married aesthetician is living the small town dream, but when she finds a box in the closet full of women's lingerie, she realizes her soulmate isn't who she thinks he is.

"The Cleaner: Evasion in Lockdown" by Rachel K Parsonage Parsonage

Kyle is disillusioned with his involvement in a county lines drug dealing gang. After being afforded a lucky break, he manages to extrapolate himself from the gang and takes a job as a hospital cleaner. Lockdown hits. But a former gang member who is on the run and desperate wants Kyle back.

"Altchemica" by Adir Golan
Genre: Fantasy

He used to love her, now he killed her husband on a job and he’ll do anything to save her boy from the clutches of the duke. An assassin is brought back from death on condition that if he takes another life, he’ll die.

"Freya's Child" by P.J. Roscoe

What would you do to save your child? Fight the dead? Defy the gods?
When Helen moves to a new town in an attempt to save her marriage, she had no idea that it would become her worst nightmare, to save her child, and bring an end to a thousand years of torment. The old Norse gods have awoken.

"The Chameleon Bush" by Scifari Irvin

It’s hard to become a doctor; infinitely more so if you’re an orphan from a Nairobi slum.

"Between Worlds" by P.J. Roscoe

When Emily is found lying next to a headless corpse, the police are convinced they have the murderer, but she is refusing to speak. Taken to a psychiatric hospital, Emily undergoes hypnotherapy with Dr Marian who is determined to find out the truth...But what is revealed, couldn't possibly be true.

"Echoes" by P.J. Roscoe

Attempting to hide from her past, Bronwen moves to a quiet, Shropshire village, but when she witnesses murder, it sets her on a quest to find the truth about what really happened during the 15th century and how is she involved in a terrible decision that echoes down through the centuries.

"The Call of the Cobra" by Scifari Irvin

A teenage anti-terrorist organisation has to prevent uranium ore being smuggled out of Tanzania to rogue states wanting to develop nuclear weapons.

"Leeches" by dobreboskov@ya… Boshkov

In a case involving his family, a San Francisco detective is facing his toughest test in his lifetime, catching a mafia boss and saving his daughter’s life, while dealing with spies among loved ones.

"Oligarchs" by Jonny King

A documentary crew follow a Russian oligarch and his family, who, after their assets are seized by the UK authorities, begin trying to rebuild their lives, reputation, and fortune from a semi-detatched house in High Wycombe.

"Welcome to Transylvania" by David Geasor

When her girlfriend falls strangely ill after a funeral in remote Romania, a young American teacher sceptical of the supernatural must cut out the heart of an alleged vampire to save her. Inspired by actual events.