Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered Diverse Voices this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received.
As you probably know — WeScreenplay believes that the best way for writers to grow is through feedback. That is why WeScreenplay is providing free, written feedback with every single competition entry. We are glad to hear from so many of you how helpful the notes were and excited to see WeScreenplay writers are improving all the time!
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We have a few upcoming announcements for the Fall 2021 Diverse Voices Screenwriting Lab, including:
- Finalist Announcement — July 21st, 2021
- Winners Announcement — August 15th, 2021
Winners will be invited to participate in our career-changing Fall Diverse Voices Lab! Many thanks to the competition jury who are helping us select our winners. They include:
Talitha Watkins, Head of the Management for Issa Rae’s company ColorCreative
Rhys Ernst, Producer and Director on TRANSPARENT
Charlie Swinbourne, Screenwriter focused on Deaf Culture
Michael [Boogie] Pinckney, Director & Creative Producer, Jax Media
Jen Ray, Literary Manager at Heroes and Villains Entertainment
We are thrilled to advance entries to the Semifinalist round for another read. A huge congratulations to every writer advancing.
Without further ado, the Fall 2021 Diverse Voices Semifinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below
| A Mystic Fog I Carry | Yen Huang |
| Admissions | Delani Wolf |
| Alien of Extraordinary Ability | Rishan Dhamija, Sola Fadiran, Edwin Joseph |
| Americano | James Tison, Gus Constantellis |
| And A Child Will Lead | Jamil Akim O’Quinn |
| Ann Arbor | Trevor Zhou |
| Ann Lowe | Rodney Wilkins |
| Anthony & Miguel – “Pilot” | Trevor Brown |
| Arrangements | Sarah Casey |
| Astronomica | Matthew Wollin |
| Awakening | Zaelyna Beck |
| Bad Mango! | Meghan Weinstein |
| Binding | Mike Sheriff |
| Black Box | Alexandra Shields |
| Black Santa | Parco Richardson, Aiden Chapparone |
| Bucky Johnson | James Barnes, Garrett Vanderwielen |
| Cambados, NJ | Thomas Rivera Montes |
| Captain F*ck It | Melanie Holmes |
| Caveat Emptor | Ray Goldberg |
| Chasing Honey | Laura Shamas |
| Cheaters | Brittany Harris, Caitlin Gallo |
| Chilmark | Stephen Nolly |
| Chokepiont | Tamra Teig |
| Circle of Illumination | Trisha Difazio |
| City of Skol | Jason Cho |
| Colour My Love | Starlett Hill |
| Commonwealth | Jared Hardy |
| Concrete Evidence | Paul Clarke |
| Control Z | Jorge Pulido |
| Copper Ridge | Rebecca Ghusn |
| Crowded | Cori Woods |
| Daddies | Ramon Watkins |
| Dark Magnolia | Sam Overton |
| Double Negative | Kelsea Mayfield |
| El Otro Lado | Jianna Maarten Saada |
| Ela | Antonio Aguinaga |
| Enter the Kingdom | David Chang |
| Fight For Life | Melvin Webb |
| Forbidden to See Us Scream in Tehran | Farbod Ardebili |
| Generationals | Suhashini Krishnan |
| Grunt Work | Sal Bardo |
| Hatch | Karim Khan |
| Her Mortal Remains | Tracy Clifton |
| Hey , Wait A Minute! | Michael-Leon Wooley |
| Hoe-Mission | Eric Pou |
| I Enjoy Being a Girl! | Brandon Krajewski |
| Lady Libertine | Lina Khan |
| Lift | Allison Orr Block |
| Lift Off | W.E. Richardson |
| Mabel | Elisa Manzini |
| Miss Shepherd | Alison Headrick |
| Motherload | Layla Soileau |
| My Best Friend’s Ashes | McKenzie Moser |
| No Good Deed | Heather Farlinger |
| No Traveler Returns | Randall Thom |
| Off The Field | Jormond Thompson |
| Original Tru | Adam Huss |
| Our Town | Talya Klein, Emmett Anderson |
| Out/Sourced | Noa Aimeé, Wesley Tysdale |
| Outspoken – The Untold Story of Helen Keller | Kathryn Fox |
| P***Y | Connie Shi |
| Pendulum | Dae Dunn |
| Perdido | Eduardo Maytorena |
| Picture Book Perfect | Gian-Paul Bergeron |
| Pig Lake | Joslyn Jensen |
| Plum Town | Kelly Yu |
| Pole Moles | David Morris |
| Predatory | Ashley Rose Wellman |
| Pulling Seedlings | Eris Qian |
| Queen of the Amazons | JL Ivory |
| Rendez-Vous | Coxy Rodoni |
| Represent | Susan Cinoman |
| Righteous | Kathy Patterson |
| Root | Katherine Street |
| Saturday Night Lesbian | Tracie Laymon |
| Secondhand Miracles | Jared Pascoe |
| Séverin | Maggy Torres-Rodriguez |
| Sk8er Boiz | Christopher Sullivan |
| Snow Globe | Sheikh Jallow |
| Soar | Becca Mann |
| South Central L.A | Brenda E. Alvarez |
| Stepping On Dad | Alexander Troxler |
| Sunshine Shifts | Rebecca Davis |
| Swimming in Cuba | Josie Melendez |
| Tasteless | Lottie Finklaire |
| The Academy | Brit Cowan |
| The Big Time | Josh Bourne |
| The Devil | Jennifer Hawkins |
| The Home | Efrain Aldaco |
| The Mender | R.B. Ripley |
| The Mural | Carolyn Bradley |
| The Only Safe Place Left Is The Dark | Warren Wagner |
| The Othered | Minh Anh Vo Dinh |
| The Things I Cannot Change | Aaron Lomeli |
| The Trade Winds | Christina DeHayes |
| The Vet | Karan Talwar |
| The White Mouse: Witch | Heather Farlinger |
| Tiger Sea | Suki Kaiser |
| Tiny-Time Hustlers | Yvette Wren |
| Twin Talons Ladies Society for Acceptable Women | Alex Otis |
| Whirlwind | Monika Moreno-Lapp |
| White Terror | Philip Lyu |
| Wildfires | Eudie Pak |
| Winston | Aashish Gadhvi |
| Yellow Fever | Winnie Kemp |
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