Hot Springs Screenplay Competition
- May 1, 2025 -
Our second competition of 2025, enter by May 8 for an Earlybird fee of $25, $20 for Gold Members.
Click "Enter Now" above to enter.
We can't wait to read your screenplay!
- April 2025 -
Congratulations to the Winners of our "40 for 50 Competition"
Winner
A Commendable Position - g. Michael Nicolosi, David Hyde
2nd Place
The Stolen - Stephanie Banks
3rd Place
Morph Trouble - Richard Hohenrath
4th Place
Billy Dutch Champagne for President - Regina Junior
5th Place
The Holy Cookie - Alessandra Ashley
6th Place
The Scarlet Thread - John Martins III
The Hot Springs Screenplay Competition
supports young writers!
April 12, 2025: The winner and runner-up of our 2024-25 Arkansas Young Playwrights Competition
and the actors in the winning play.
Our entries from the Hot Springs Screenplay Competition pay for the AYPC and a $500 cash prize for the winner.
- Reviews of our Fall 2021 Competition -
Great competition! Finalists are given feedback notes which are constructive, helpful and show your script has actually been read by a person. Friendly, inviting and welcoming to all writers no matter what level in their career. Highly recommended.
In all the ways that matter this an exemplary script contest: it met (or beat) deadlines for announcements, had a meaningful number of finalists, and provided personalized feedback to them that clearly came from a human being and not an algorithm. I don't do a lot of contests not attached to festivals these days but this is a keeper.
Feedback on our Fall 2021 Competition
I rarely write back to contests, but I wanted to thank you and your staff personally: these notes were lovely, and as I posted on Facebook, "writerly" in the best sense of the word.
-Submitter
Thank you for your notes and kind words, I greatly appreciate them both. I can only agree with what you wrote and your thoughts. (Title of script) is a special story, a personal one, one I intend to revisit in January and your notes will greatly help. Will use your notes and resubmit with another script.
-Submitter
Wow! Thank you so much! And thank you for the wonderful notes. They were very useful and appreciated!
-Submitter