Real cash, stated up front
Prize money published before entries open, not 'prizes valued at' padded with software licences and coupon codes. When the season is announced, the number you see is the number that gets wired.
The house contests
The stage is built. The season is not open yet.
Scriptageddon Contests are coming, with real cash prizes and the same fifteen-category score every writer on this site already gets. Nothing is open, nothing is taking your money, and there is no entry form hiding behind this page. Stay tuned.
Coming soon · Season one being assembled
What we are promising before we take a single entry
Screenwriting contests have earned their reputation honestly. These are the rules the house is binding itself to, written down now so you can hold us to them later.
Judged on the rubric you already know
Every entry is scored against the same fifteen categories as any other read on this site. No secret panel, no mystery criteria. You will be able to see exactly where your entry landed.
Every entrant gets their score
Not just the finalists. Enter, and you leave with a full Armageddon Score report whatever happens. A contest that takes your money and sends a form email is not a contest, it is a raffle.
A guaranteed read at the end
Winners go straight to Hazard Talent Management for a genuine industry read, and onto the Wall of Fame permanently. Placement puts your pages in front of the verified industry desk first.
Seasons, not a permanent open door
Four seasons a year with hard closing dates, so a placement means something. Feature, TV pilot, short and stage play tracks judged separately against their own rubrics.
The fee stays honest
Entry will be priced against what the read actually costs to run, not against what the market will bear. Elite screenwriters get their first entry of every season on the house.
In the meantime, the Command Center is open
You should not have to wait on us to run a submission strategy. The Contest Command Center is live right now: a hand-checked directory of the competitions, fellowships, labs and grants worth your money, ranked by the writers who actually entered them, with a private tracker for every deadline, fee and result you are carrying.
Open the Command CenterHear it first
Leave an address and you will get one email when season one opens, with the prize amounts and the closing date. Nothing else.