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.
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.) 1) Full Feedback on your script 2) Actors performance video reading of your script 3) Blog interview promotion. 4) Podcast interview on the Film Festival ITunes show
Submit your DEATH short story to the festival and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
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 by industry professionals.).
Full Feedback
Performance video reading of your script
Blog interview to promote your script
Podcast interview on the ITunes Film Festival show
Submit your HISTORICAL FICTION Short Story to the Festival here and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
A historical fiction story is a fictional story that takes place in the past and incorporates details about the time period to achieve authenticity. These details can include social norms, customs, traditions, and manners. Historical fiction stories can include actual historical figures or events, but the people and their actions are invented by the author.
Garner FULL FEEDBACK on your crime/mystery novel by our committee of industry professionals. Get a transcript reading of your book performed by professional actors at the Crime/Mystery Festival and made into a promotional video for your novel.
3 options to submit:
Full novel for feedback & results
1st Chapter for feedback & results
Performance video promotional reading of your novel
How political discourse has gotten in the way of relationships and how to cope with this through love and compromise.
2. What genres would you say this story is in?
Political.
3. How would you describe this story in two words?
Sadly topical.
4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?
The Big Lebowski
5. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)
I Will (The Beatles)
6. Do you have an all-time favorite novel?
The Cather in the Rye
7. What motivated you to write this story?
The sorry state of political discourse in our country and how it has needlessly and mindlessly divided us
8. If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
Paul McCartney
9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
I belong to Braver Angels. This organization brings Republicans and Democrats together to discuss issues in a fair, non-threatening and non-judgmental way. I firmly believe this is the way to a more unified and secure future for all of us.
10. What influenced you to enter your story to get performed?
I wanted to reach a wider audience with my message of love and compassion as the answer to divisive politics.
11. Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?
Keep writing even when the pile of rejection keeps growing and the naysayers become too much to bear.
Two children, who are forced to deal with the start of World War II and its struggles and loss of life consistency, seek a finer meaning of life and how to continue love. Despite both these sudden massive changes, they eventually recognize their mother’s determined wish. That wish is to find and enjoy the beauty always present in living life no matter what happenstance befall you . How? by experiencing her unique way of finding a piano although once lost and taking a new type of piano lesson, thereby finally realizing that beauty does always remain no matter what struggles and pain life hands you. This is a story that easily become a beautiful screenplay someday.
Performed by Val Cole
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your short story about?
Survival and finding lost joy again by doing so .
2. What genre(s) would you say this story is in?
Historical Short Fiction
3. How would you describe this story in two words?
Survival Joy
4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?
There are too many wonderful ones to pick a favorite, but “To Kill a Mockingbird” is certainly one of them. As a child I loved “The Wizard of Oz”. I also always watch “A Few Good Men”and all Sidney Poitier’s wonderful films.
5. Do you remember the time in your life when you realized that you wanted to write?
I think I was eight when I first started writing. My best friend and I then both started writing because her mother and two aunts, Marchette Chute and B.J. Chute, were very well known writers. Marchette Chute was a famous biographer who wrote Shakespeare of London. B. J. Chute wrote novels, including Green Willow, which was made into a Broadway show starring Tony Perkins. Given those amazing contacts, we both started writing our own stories in 2d and 4th grade.
6. Do you have an all-time favorite novel?
Gone With the Wind has been one of them, but I have many. Usually my favorite novel is the one I am reading and loving at the moment.
7. What is your favorite meal?
Broiled Lobster fresh from the ocean in Downeast Maine (Jonesport)
8. If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
There are many I’d like to meet, but one of them is certainly Robert Frost. He came from Vermont as did I, and I was honored to be able to serve him lunch at the Woodstock Inn many years ago when I was waiting table there during college.
9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
Editing and helping others become superb writers, teaching at all levels, tutoring literacy and helping students with disabilities succeed, and of course playing the piano. That is where the idea for my short story originated.
10. Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?
There are many, but the most important probably is be true to yourself and to your characters and their themes. Also try out all kinds of genres and see where they lead you. I am a worldwide editor now and also a poet and a children’s writer. I studied screenwriting at Dartmouth with Bill Phillips and Maury Rapf and the Frommers. Bill wrote the screenplay for the movie, Christine, and worked with Stephen King on it. Maury came from a famous Hollywood family and worked with Walt Disney on several famous scripts. He also founded the Dartmouth Film Society and taught screenwriting there. The Frommers ( Myrna and Harvey) wrote books on the different times in New York and taught Liberal Studies. Always try to find other writers who can teach and inspire your own genius and help you create wonderfully. Writers groups are great too, especially small and intimate ones. I started one years back. The major key to becoming a better and a good writer is to keep writing, no matter the genre. Also, keep writing notebooks with your ideas noted. I’ve learned if you don’t write down a great idea when you first have it, it will easily disappear!
Estranged brothers confront their mother’s grave, unearthing buried resentments and dark secrets.
2. What genres would you say this story is in?
Crime genre
3. How would you describe this story in two words?
Poetic justice
4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?
The Wrestler (2008)
5. What is your favorite song?
Quarter on the Ground – Matt Andersen
6. Do you have an all-time favorite novel?
Asylum Series by Madeleine Roux
7. What motivated you to write this story?
This was my first attempt at writing in the crime genre. I’ve always enjoyed twists in stories while slowly giving aways hints. Hopefully I’ve done the genre justice.
8. If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
Edgar Allan Poe
9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
The theatre. Especially your local community theatres. Outside of writing I try to support my local theatres through attendance and volunteering my time.
10. What influenced you to enter your story to get performed?
I’ve been trying for awhile to find this story a home, and when I learned about Wildsound and the vocal renditions I thought this could finally be the perfect fit.
11. Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?
Embrace rejection. You will have a lot of no’s when submitting your work, but for every rejection it gets you closer to refining your art and your search. It just makes the acceptance that mush sweeter
A travel story is a piece of writing that describes a location, its people, culture, and customs. It can also be a narrative of a journey that provides information about the physical, biogeographic, and ethnographic characteristics of an area.
Accept only stories that fit into the TRAVEL genre.
Mainly what this contest does is give exposure to the writer. They will be able to obtain a solid agent, plus get notice by producers looking for writers like yourself. NOTE: The writer will always own 100% rights to their story. The only thing we do is help the writer. Either with notes on their next draft, or gain exposure by having their story showcased at our festival.
Submit your FAMILY or KIDS Short Story to the Festival here and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
Mainly what this contest does is give exposure to the writer. They will be able to obtain a solid agent, plus get notice by producers looking for writers like yourself. NOTE: The writer will always own 100% rights to their story. The only thing we do is help the writer. Either with notes on their next draft, or gain exposure by having their story showcased at our festival.
Submit your CRIME Short Story to the Festival here 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 CRIME genre.
Mainly what this contest does is give exposure to the writer. They will be able to obtain a solid agent, plus get notice by producers looking for writers like yourself. NOTE: The writer will always own 100% rights to their story. The only thing we do is help the writer. Either with notes on their next draft, or gain exposure by having their story showcased at our festival.
SHORT DEFINITION of an essay: A short piece of writing on a particular subject, often expressing personal views. In a school test, an essay is a written answer that includes information and discussion, usually to test how well the student understands the subject.
Submit your ESSAY to the Festival here and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
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