Once again, thank you to everyone who entered for helping support Books for Kids with over $3,000 this year between the two seasons of Diverse Voices; we're extremely excited to support this amazing organization. We encourage everyone to check out this program and all they're doing.
This Diverse Voices contest has brought together so much amazing talent and so many incredible stories. Everyone in the contest who made it this far deserves a round of applause. Just because a project may not have advanced doesn't at all mean that it isn't a fantastic story. In fact, we're certain that some scripts not advancing will bring their writer success in the very near future.
We also want to extend a sincere congratulations to everyone advancing. If you are advancing it means that after three reads, your judges agreed that this is a stand out story that needs to be told. Please make sure to congratulate these writers on the Facebook announcement — they deserve it!
And now, the Diverse Voices Finalists:
| American Jesus written by Monis Rose |
| Black Star written by Eric Glover |
| Chamber Music written by Jackie Thornton |
| Cult of the Tiger Mom written by Shawn Chou |
| Fallout written by Bronwen Clark |
| False Face Society written by Myriam Nafte |
| FLY! written by Dave Chan |
| Glitches written by Kelly Byrnes |
| Going written by Brian O'Donnell |
| Guns and Grace written by Odin Ozdil |
| Immaculate Pilot written by Colleen Scriven |
| In One Split Second written by Chloe Owens |
| Mercy written by Amanda Norman |
| Ollie written by Jim Corona |
| P.O. Box 1142 written by Lillian Wang |
| Phoenix written by Natasha Hall |
| Portalgate written by Ella Roby & Zahid Gamieldien, |
| Red Velvet written by Tom Radovich |
| Release written by Stacie Shellner |
| Rico Como Julio Lobo written by Gianpaolo Pietri |
| So You Want to be Korean written by Joy Regullano |
| Social Work written by Nancy Nyman & Heather McNama |
| Sweet Dreams written by Dianne Janis |
| The Art Of Color written by Bossou Twa Kon |
| The Experiment written by Lynda Lemberg & Jeffrey Allen Russel |
| The G.O.A.T. written by Sid Grey |
| The Game-Changer written by Patrick Sherman |
| The Last Bookstore written by Brooke Purdy & Colette Freedman |
| The Living Water written by Romeo Ciolfi |
| Uptown and Downbeat written by Denise Meyers |
| White Like Me written by Rudy Salo |
