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.

"Closer than Breath - How a near-death experience reset rejection to limitless, unconditional love." by Louise Coetzee Coetzee
Genre: Christian

When a woman’s near-death experience results in her meeting Jesus, it contradicts her beliefs about God, the afterlife, and life on Earth. The encounter changes her forever and brings with it an unexpected surprise.

"The Tally Man, Book Two of The Stoker Trilogy" by Tod Benjamin

After the death of his war hero father, Charlie Stoker lives by two principles: honour and duty. In 1930s London, consumed by an impossible love outside his sterile marriage, he battles Mosley’s fascists, a hero to others but tortured within, seeking self-respect as the dark clouds of war gather.

"Chicken Tenderized" by Bonnie Tunick
Genre: Drama

An eight-year-old daughter of Jewish immigrants reluctantly inherits her father's legacy as she helps him peddle poultry to small local merchants in 1948 Chicago.

"Me n' Mona" by Jonathan Grupper

Mona defies her due date and refuses to give birth until the world is ready for her baby. Chaos - and monumental change - ensue.

"Beautiful-People Time" by Scifari Irvin
Genre: Drama

The left and right sides of the brain process information differently, but what happens if the wires get crossed?

"LUCY FELL " by Lisa Marie Nagy-Isaacson
Genre: Drama

A woman who's already changed her identity once, runs off with an Irish band to work as a roadie when sinister figures from her past and the homicide detectives investigating her dead boss’s murder close in on her.

"Notes for My Nieces" by Lisa Marie Nagy-Isaacson
Genre: Drama

A Gen X-er chronicles her real-life struggle with speaking phobia, unemployment, and unwanted pregnancy during her search for autonomy and self in 1990s NYC through present-day letters to her nieces.

"Antares Trap" by Anjula Evans Evans
Genre: Fantasy

A young man discovers a catalyst that could brighten the future or ignite a dictatorship in the Antares solar system.

"Antares Trap" by Anjula Evans Evans

A young man discovers a catalyst that could brighten the future or ignite a dictatorship in the Antares solar system.

"COVID ICU" by Anjula Evans Evans
Genre: Drama

Brought together during the worst global disaster of the century, Karly and Clay are part of the final defense that stands between life and death. As doctors in the COVID Intensive Care Unit, lives hang in the balance, including their own. However, an ominous presence overshadows their every move.

"COVID ICU" by Anjula Evans Evans
Genre: Romance

Brought together during the worst global disaster of the century, Karly and Clay are part of the final defense that stands between life and death. As doctors in the COVID Intensive Care Unit, lives hang in the balance, including their own. However, an ominous presence overshadows their every move.

"Marked Exchange" by Anjula Evans Evans
Genre: Romance

A young woman is drawn into the world of 'shifters', humans that can shape-shift into animals, and unexpectedly becomes a trophy in an arena battle.

"Marked Exchange" by Anjula Evans Evans
Genre: Fantasy

A young woman is drawn into the world of 'shifters', humans that can shape-shift into animals, and unexpectedly becomes a trophy in an arena battle.

"FAUX REAL" by Shelly Steig

A twelve-year-old must save her family's struggling Las Vegas pawn shop after she loses Elvis' mortuary toe tag. To keep her celebrity-impersonating parents from bankruptcy, she creates a fake, crashes casinos, and faces her fear of Elvi (in the plural) at the King of Rock 'n Roll World Convention.

"Disappearance" by Julien Ayotte

The Witness Protection Program, run by the U.S. Marshal Office in Wahington, DC, prides itself on having never lost a witness who remained in the program...until now. Suddenly, two witnesses are murdered, and a third witness narrowly escapes being killed. WITSEC must find out who is leaking names

"Code Name Lily" by Julien Ayotte

A 21-year-old Belgian nurse becomes a key member of the Comet Line escape network during WWII. She rescues over 250 downed airmen in just two years and guides them to safety over the Pyrenees Mountains into Spain

"Dog" by Steve Sloan
Genre: Drama

Recent widower Jack is lonely and depressed, he's let himself go. So, when he has a stroke, in his mind there's not much left for him to live for. His sister Daisy has other ideas and gives him a dog to cheer him up. Jack isn't impressed and vows to get the mutt removed before he pops his clogs.

"Chase: The Secret Billionaire Society " by Nancy Pennick
Genre: Romance

A daring billionaire. An unseen adversary. One risky venture. Can he save his fortune and get the girl?