Month: November 2025
Deadline: HISTORICAL STAGE PLAY Writing Contest (get play performed by professional actors)
Submit via Submittable: https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/331397/historical-stage-play-writing-contest-get-play-performed-by-professional-actors
Festival contest brough to you by the Documentary Festival: http://www.documentaryshortfilmfestival.com
I have to really thank the actors for my reading, nothing short of terrific as they were, nothing short of incredibly smart, attractive, and perceptive as they were. They brought the script to life. – F. Maffai
FULL FEEDBACK on your stage play from our committee of Professional Playwriters, Production Heads and Story Consultants. Get a best scene of your stage play performed at the writing festival and made into a video for the winner.
Submit your 10 Page Play, 1 Act Play, or Full Stage Play to the Festival.
SUBMIT your STAGE PLAY Today You will receive feedback on your play in 3-5 weeks
See other Stage Play Festival contest deadlines: https://festivalreviews.org/daily-stage-play-contest-deadlines/
Deadline: PARANORMAL Novel Festival (3 ways to submit)
Submit via the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival site: https://fantasyscififestival.com/paranormal-novel-festival/
Submit your PARANORMAL themed book by the deadline.
A paranormal story is a work of fiction that explores phenomena and beings that are beyond the scope of scientific understanding. They include elements like ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches, and other entities that cannot be explained by the laws of nature. They can be set in the real world, but generally includes elements that defy scientific explanation.
Watch Novel Performance Readings:
Get FULL FEEDBACK on either the 1st chapter or entire novel book from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your novel performed by a professional actor at the festival.
NEW OPTION: Or, just submit for an actor performance reading transcript of your novel (any 5 pages of your book). Great way to promote the sales of your book if you’re already published. (see examples on the video playlist below)
SUBMIT your novel now (both your 1st chapter or full novel accepted) To be eligible for our Writing Festival Events. Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation
Submit a novel book and get it seen by the world.
Deadline: EXPERIMENTAL Short Story Festival (automatic acceptance)
Submit via the Experimental Festival: https://experimentalfilmfestival.com/experimental-short-story-festival/
Submit your EXPERIMENTAL Short Story to the festival and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
Accept only stories that fit into the experimental genre. An experimental story is a narrative that challenges traditional storytelling conventions and explores new concepts and representations of the world. Experimental stories often use innovative language, non-traditional narrative structures, and metafiction to create unconventional and complex stories.
See example of recent reading completed:

Deadline: DYSTOPIAN Screenplay Festival
Submit via the Thriller/Suspense Festival: https://thrillersuspensefestival.com/dystopian-screenplay-festival/
Submit your screenplay that’s a DYSTOPIAN genre and/or plot line to the festival.
Dystopian stories are a type of speculative fiction that explore the darker aspects of human nature and the human mind. They often serve as a warning about what could happen to modern society if certain aspects grow out of control.
FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay from our committee of Professional Screenwriters, Production Heads and Script Consultants. Get your entire script performed at the writing festival.
SUBMIT your FEATURE, TV PILOT or SHORT SCREENPLAY.
Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation. Looking for screenplays from all over the world.
This festival has a guaranteed 4-tier set up for each accepted script. (No matter what, all screenplays submitted receive FULL FEEDBACK on their work.)
1st Tier: FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay (all submissions)
2nd Tier: Accepted scripts (25% on average of submitted entries) get a best scene of their screenplay performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
3rd Tier: We will send you a list of questions to answer for our blog interview that will promote you and your film.
4th Tier: Then we will set up a podcast interview on our popular ITunes show where will we will promote the winning writer and script.
(BONUS: 5th Tier. A winning screenwriter’s WhatsApp group has just been formed. Over 50 writers to date. Great way to share ideas and contacts with people in the industry.)

FANTASY/SCI-FI Best Scene Reading: ETERNAL LIFE, by Jaaered Brown
Waking in a future with floating cities topping thousands of stories, run by radioactive intelligence, where imagination blends with machine, an amnesiac finds her destiny.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Alis: Hannah Ehman
Anne-Marie: Val Cole
HORROR Festival 1st Scene Script: ANXIETY, by Meredith Stack
Emily suffers from extreme anxiety. Her younger sister, Meredith, is the only one who can calm her but when Meredith dies unexpectedly, Emily’s anxiety takes a dark turn exposing terrifying secrets from her family’s past and creating a sinister way of dealing with her fears.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Julie Sheppard
Lori: Val Cole
Father McMann: Shawn Devlin
ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIPS 1st Scene Reading: AUDITORIUM, by Stuart A. Pollack
On his first day of college, Mark Shoots, an anxious underachiever planning to drop out, arrives early at a large, empty lecture hall. There, he encounters Amanda Lists, a driven overachiever anxiously awaiting news from an Ivy League waitlist. Initially hostile toward each other, they gradually form a bond, sharing personal struggles such as Mark’s academic difficulties and Amanda’s grief over her deceased sister,
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Ned: Shawn Devlin
Mark: Sean Ballantyne
FEMALE Festival SHORT Story: She & the She-Goblin, by Renee Frackiewicz
Voice over by Val Cole