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 are thrilled to advance entries to the Semifinalist round for another read. A huge congratulations to every writer advancing.
We also want to acknowledge all of the strong scripts that did not advance. If your script is not on this list, it does not at all mean that our judges didn’t enjoy the read – in fact, we’re confident some of the scripts not advancing will bring their writers success in the very near future. Thank you for entering your script and always keep writing.
Without further ado, the Spring 2020 Diverse Voices Semifinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| A Ballad for Syria | Annie Macdonald, Robert B. Mac |
| A Couple of Months | Deborah Riley |
| A Little Race-Ish | Ursula Taherian |
| A Need to Kill | Mark Pettit, AJ Jones |
| A State of Crisis | Alec Kenney |
| A Tent on Jupiter | Derek Nicoletto |
| A Turban & A Beard | Jaskaran Singh |
| Adults of an Undescribed Species | Kathryn S. Gardiner |
| After Hebden | David Kirkham |
| After Saint Marks | David Scala |
| All But Dissertation | Yancey Hrobowski |
| All the Gallant Men | Ken Gire |
| All The Real Boys | Ohad Ira Amram |
| All We Are | Will Stewart |
| American History | David Moriya |
| Anansi and the Chest of Stories | Ayinde Ricco |
| Arranged | Mithra Alavi |
| Artemisia, an Allegory of Painting | Gisella Faggi |
| As You Wish | Suhashini Krishnan |
| Asians Can’t Play Jazz | Carlos Gutierrez |
| Assimilated | Christopher Guerrero |
| Astronomica | Matthew Wollin |
| Asylum | Sarah Ream |
| Barnstorming: A Story of Sex and Baseball | Ronald Drescher |
| Beast of Silk City | Courtney Sposato |
| Before We Arrive | William McGhee |
| Being Brave | Ambika Vas |
| BELLE | Melissa Birks |
| Beyond Basketball | Ashok Ginde |
| Black Creek Trail | Jaime Saginor |
| Blood and Dreams – “Complicit” | Suzanne Griffin |
| Blood Trail | Hind Metwalli |
| Body Farm | Karen Hendry |
| Bonnie & Bonnie | Lena Murisier |
| Boricua | tony barone |
| Breaking Up | Andrew Williams |
| Brooklyn Pansy | Jason Forbach |
| Brujería | Daniel Pfeffer |
| Bully | Stuart McMeans |
| CareFull | Talie Melnyk |
| CHERRY HILL BLUES | Shay Ball |
| CHOKEPOINT | Tamra Teig |
| Chow | Herman Chen, Carrie Wong |
| Chrissy Judy | Todd Flaherty |
| Chronic Connections “Silver” | Mimi Newman |
| CIGAR BOX LETTERS | Douglas Spaltro |
| Coney | Jesse Klein |
| Conscience | Brandon Kelley |
| Coriander: The Lost Elephant | Jordan Sandfer |
| Courageous Kat | Pamela Brewster |
| Covet | Becca E. Davis |
| Cryptids | Joanna Ke |
| Curry | Mrittika Sarin |
| Curveballs | Suzanne Reed |
| D.J.J.D. | Taylor Hopkins |
| Darkmatter | Storm Ashwood |
| Dawn of the Rising Son | Junot Lee |
| Deluge | Kenneth Vatan-Woodall |
| Diamonds | Marcus Thomas |
| Don’t Look Back | Jesse Klein |
| Earth Ninja | Rob Hooks |
| El Barrio | Cassidy Harrison, Adam Prince |
| Fabulosity | Jesse Klein |
| Fat Lady Sriracha | Reeyaz Habib |
| FEATHER | Kevin Schwartz |
| FEATURE CREATURES | Sophie Hessekiel |
| Fester | Robbie Lemieux |
| FET 12 | Gia El Aynaoui |
| FIVE POINTS | Vivian Kerr |
| Flint Hill | Elizabeth Yanders |
| Fool’s Gold | Alexandra Shields |
| For Later Times | Miguel Ramirez |
| For the Culture | Phylicia Pearl Mpasi |
| Forging Heavenly Peace | Duane Butler |
| Frankie & the Estrellas | Roxana Altamirano |
| Gay Fury | Joel Mahr |
| Gifted | Tess Meyer |
| Good Vibes Only | Kyra Jones |
| GREENWOOD | Jody Hadlock, A.J. Orr |
| Guncle | Tom Stovall |
| Happy Camp | Liz Farrar |
| HAVE A GOOD ONE | Shay Ball |
| Heavy Pilot | Collette Legault |
| Hey Handsome | Joe Borg |
| HOUSE MONEY | Don I. Waldo |
| Icon | mikhail marks |
| If Wrong Could Weep | Calvin Beckett |
| In His Name | Eissa Saeed |
| In Light of Leaving Jonas B. | Liz Smith |
| INCOMPLETE | K. Junicue |
| Infinity Plus One | Stefani Zabner |
| Inheritance | Kurt Choate |
| Intros/Outros | thy riedel |
| Irritable | Sam Josephs |
| It Was Written | Valeria Vallejos |
| JAANI | Suhana Chander |
| Jason Sharp: Confirmed Bachelor | Steven Greenwood |
| Joyless | Ryan Manns, Jocelyn Manns |
| LANCASTER PASTORAL | Raymond Cho |
| Lateslip | Veronika Gribanova |
| Left Behind | Yara Caubet |
| Little Sister | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Loa | Francisco da Silva |
| Loving Me Straight | Ruby Smith |
| Maa | Kasia Kaczmarek |
| Made of Dishonor | Megan Bacharach |
| Made Wright | Tedros Habib |
| Mango Magic | Ina Sotirova |
| Manhunt In Panama | Ronald Drescher |
| Meera | Alex Arjuna Hughes |
| Minor | Mexi Gremillion |
| Mixed UP | Nathan Cheney |
| Money, Blood and Conscience | David Steinman |
| Motherload | Layla Soileau |
| Mr Wellington | Diane Young |
| Mr. Rose | Kari Mote |
| My American Dream | Guillermo Noriega |
| My Best Friend’s Love Story | Ushmey Chakraborty |
| Night Passing | Scott Button |
| Nikkei Curse of Yokai | Keiko Sugihara |
| NO GOOD DEED: THE OLIVER SIPPLE STORY (LGBTQ ANTHOLOGY SERIES) | Heather Farlinger |
| No Quarter, “Welcome to Arcadia” | Travis Kehoe |
| One of Them | Laksmi Hedemark |
| Pansy Craze | Samuel Josephs |
| PINS | Jim Provenzano |
| Pizza Boy Saves the World | Bret Grafton |
| Please. | Elise Brown |
| Pressure Drop | scott cramer |
| Pride, and Joy | Keela Buford |
| Private Lives | Cate Holahan |
| Project Eve | Becca Mann |
| Puck’s Game | Alexander Hurt |
| Queen of the Channel | Mark Williams-Abrams |
| Raghead | Natassia Halabi |
| Reaper Girl | Eudie Pak |
| Rear | Edward Worthy |
| Reflections | Cynthia Wright |
| Right Hand Mann | Geoffrey Glenn |
| Right of Passage | Ally Iseman |
| RNWY | P.A. Lopez |
| Road to Zion | Andrew Reid, Jeremy Palmer |
| Saints and Sinners | Brit Cowan |
| Savant | Johnny Gilligan |
| Scattered | Karen Agresti |
| SCOTUS | Alan Jenkins |
| Selling Heaven | Susie Lohse |
| Semper Fi | Amanda Norman |
| Settle The Score | Sharissa Holopainen |
| Shitty Fucking Advice | Elissa Aron |
| Shooting Blanks | Syd Goin |
| SK8ER BOI | Christopher Sullivan |
| Skin in the Game | Julie Zografos Koegl |
| SLEEPER | enrique almeida |
| Sometimes Boys Don’t Cry. . .They Scream | Anna Schwarz |
| somewhere there’s a church in crowning | Cheran Rush |
| Sonata Coffee | Cara Schultz |
| Soul on Soul | Linda Dahl |
| Space for Raven | Shawna Baca |
| Strange As Angels | Akiva Penaloza |
| SUGARPLUMS | Jefferey Spivey |
| Taejon | Jongson Park |
| Taxi Moto | Guy Prevost, Mario Malivert |
| The Andes Project | Jose Casado |
| The Animus | Mandy Foster |
| The Appeal | Yoav Potash |
| The Black Wall Street | Brianna Adams |
| The Bronze Queen | Patricia Escoto |
| THE BUSINESS OF LOVE | Karen Pluemer |
| The Carolinas | Richard Stone |
| The Chocolate Kandinsky | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Compound | Heather Stiteler, Mikaela Shwer |
| The Corinthians | Talie Melnyk |
| The Countdown | Amadou Diallo |
| The Demon | Dan Carrillo, Eugenio Villamar |
| The Dining Room | Shawn Parikh |
| The Drag Show | Lawrence Daly |
| The Farrell Girl | Lyndal Simpson |
| THE GOLDEN BOY | Cindy Matta |
| The Gospel According to Charlie | KAMAL JOHN ISKANDER |
| The Gotaways | Patty Carey |
| The Great Leader | Vinny Lopez |
| The Hollow Kind: Episode 1 – Where’s Jenny | Gregory Burgess |
| The Homestudy | Derek Nicoletto |
| The Immigrants | Ivana Strajin |
| The In-Between | Jaime Chapin |
| The Inheritance | Daniel Hess |
| The Interpretation | Alexander Clavijo |
| The Itch | Jeremy Bradford |
| The Jesuit | Jordan Guingao |
| The Mughal Empire – Rise of a King | Kranti Pally |
| The Mystery Knight | Abril Carpio Marion |
| THE NEED FOR SOMETHING NEW | John Frederick |
| The Player’s Son | Gillian Muller |
| The Spacer 6 | Alexandria Sinclair, Sara Detrik |
| The Wisdom of Water | Erica Kent |
| The Witch of Dedham | Jessica Ross |
| THERAPY | scott cramer |
| This Is The Last Time | Jeff Bretl |
| Three Dates With Ben | Oliver Warren |
| Three Squared | Frank Wood |
| Throw Like a Girl – “#NoMercy” | Elfi Martinez |
| Tighter | Arun Croll |
| TORCH | Jason McBeth |
| Trust The Process | Paul Marsh |
| TWITCH | Tucker Morgan |
| Two-Week Program | Hyasha Kogge |
| Up The Rio | Jaime Osnato-Rosario |
| UXO: Unexploded Ordnance | Celina Dobson |
| Vampire Facial | Liz Fields |
| Wake | Julie Snider |
| Walk With Me Into Winter | Sophia Khan |
| Weekend at Bernie’s III | Craig Miller, Pete Johnson |
| Welcome to the Neighborhood | Aimee Dansereau |
| What’s Left of Us | Joseph Hemsani |
| Where Light Hides | Yvonne Paulin |
| Wilmington | George Ruelas |
| Winter | Tes Noah Asfaw |
| Wire Hangers | Jon Davis |
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