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- Actor readings of your scripts will be videotaped
- Your scripts and these videotapes will be placed on line and promoted as winning scripts
- Email announcements will draw attention to your writing
- $2,500 Cash
- Free $300 Gold Pass to the 2011 Screenwriting Expo
- Free one-year subscription to Creative Screenwriting Magazine ($30-$50 value)
- We'll tell 300 production companies and agents you're among our top on-deadline creative writers
- $500 Cash
- Free $100 Basic Pass to the 2010 Screenwriting Expo
- Free one-year subscription to Creative Screenwriting Magazine ($30-$50 value)
- We'll tell 300 production companies and agents you're among our top on-deadline creative writers
- $250 Cash
- Free $100 Basic Pass to the 2010 Screenwriting Expo
- Free one-year subscription to Creative Screenwriting Magazine ($30-$50 value)
- We'll tell 300 production companies and agents you're among our top on-deadline creative writers
Fourth Through Tenth Place Prizes:
- Publicity: listing as a finalist in the contest
- Free one-year subscription to Creative Screenwriting Magazine or extension of subscription if winner has one.
Genre Prizes – $150 Each. Win A Genre Prize Even If You Do Not Advance To The Finals:
Four prizes will be awarded for the best
scenes in each of these four genre categories:
- Straight Drama (present day)
- Comedy: romcom, sitcom,
buddycom/bromance/sismance
- Historical, Future, or Elsewhere: set
In any era meaningfully earlier or later than now or someplace imaginary
- Gory or Scary: horror, thriller,
slasher, splatter, vampire/werewolf, ghost
All you
need to do to win a genre prize is write your Round 1 scene in any
genre. The genre prizes will go to high-scoring Round 1 scenes
which are not written by the first-, second-, or
third-place winners. An individual may win only one genre
prize.
All Entrants Receive:
- Feedback: We
will post scores and brief comments on every scene received.
Postings and scores will be by account number. Scores and
comments will also be sent via email to writers who include their email addresses on the title page of the scene.
- Discount coupons for script analysis services at CoverageInk.com
Cyberspace
Open Entry Fees, Deadlines, and Entry Links:
(All times are Pacific U.S. time)
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Midnight Wed. Feb. 15, 2011 -- Only $14.99 to Enter
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Extensions from this deadline are not guaranteed and would be at a higher price.
Key Dates in The Fall 2010 Cyberspace Open
(All times are Pacific U.S. time): |
- $14.99 Last-Minute Entry Deadline Midnight Feb. 15, 2011
- First premise posted on this web page Friday, Feb. 18, 2011, 5 pm..
- Deadline to send Round 1 scene to contest server: Mon. Feb. 21, 9 a.m.
- 100 (+ ties) Round 2 entrants announced: about March 21-24, 2011
- Round 2 premise posted Fri., April 1, 2011 at 5 p.m.
- Deadline to send Round 2 scene to server: Mon. April 4, 2011, 9 a.m.
- Finalists and genre winners named about: April 18-19, 2011
- Finalists' scenes videotaped by mid-May 2011.
- Voting by the writer community opens about June 4, 2011.
- Winners announced about 2 weeks after voting begins.
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Key Changes From Spring 2010 Contest:
1. Both the entry fees and the prize amounts have been slightly reduced.
2. Round 2 survivors now have an entire weekend to write their scenes rather than one day. |
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The Cyberspace Open Is managed for Creative Screenwriting by Coverage, Ink.:
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