13th Annual Search for New Blood Screenwriting Contest
A horror contest for features and pilots, run by Stage 32 for the 13th time.
closes tomorrow
Screenwriting deadlines and events in November 2026
Everything with a deadline in November 2026, or an event that runs during it. 49 of them close for entries this month.
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The AFM Pitch Conference
At the American Film Market in Century City, a handful of attendees pitch an original film or series idea to industry panelists on stage and hear their reaction in the room.
closes in 2 days
La construction de personnages et de dialogues
Quebec's screenwriters' guild runs this six-day French-language course on building fiction characters for film and TV and on what dialogue does, from function to subtext.
closes in 3 days
Short Script Lab 2026 (Online)
Writers and writer-directors with an original short screenplay can rework it here with mentors from the Doha Film Institute, online and in English.
closes in 4 days
Stage 32 8-Part Screenwriting Lab: Write your Sci-Fi or Fantasy Script in 8 Weeks
Six Saturday classes on Zoom and two private consultations take a writer with a sci-fi, fantasy or supernatural idea from logline to a revised draft.
starts in 4 days
CineStory TV Retreat & Fellowship 2027
This pilot contest leads to a five-day retreat in Idyllwild, California, in late April 2027, where the writers invited from the top rounds work one-on-one with industry mentors.
closes in 5 days
Fall 2026 WriteMovies Screenwriting Contest
WriteMovies, set up in Hollywood in 1999, runs a fall and a spring round.
closes in 5 days
Genre Series Development Workshop (47th Cairo International Film Festival, Cairo Industry Days)
Writers based in Egypt who are shaping a crime, horror, fantasy, thriller or science fiction series can apply to this festival workshop for Arabic genre series.
closes in 5 days
Stage 32 8-Part Screenwriting Lab: Write Your TV Animation
Evan Anglin, who co-heads the animation department at Zero Gravity Management, leads this eight-week Sunday lab on Zoom for writers with an animated series in mind.
starts in 5 days
Rewriting Your Screenplay and Crafting Your Pitch
Writers who already have a full feature draft spend eight weekly Zoom classes revising it with screenwriter Jen Harrington, on Wednesday mornings Pacific time from December into February.
closes in 7 days
Austin Film Festival Writers Conference
A four-day program of panels, roundtables and workshops in Austin for screenwriters, held during the first half of the city's eight-day film festival.
starts in 9 days
ISA Fast Track Fellowship, Spring 2027 Season
Twice a year the International Screenwriters' Association picks two writers and sets up a week of online general meetings for each, this round in May 2027.
closes in 9 days
Stage 32 Screenwriting Lab: Write a Comedy TV Pilot in 6 Weeks - From Concept To Completed Script (October 2026)
In this six-week lab, literary manager Spencer Robinson of Art/Work Entertainment gives notes on a comedy pilot's outline, each act and the full draft.
starts in 11 days
Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship
Producer Cassian Elwes chooses one unrepresented feature writer from ten scripts the Black List shortlists, then takes the fellow to the Sundance Film Festival for meetings and events.
closes in 12 days
Garden State Film Festival Screenplay Competition
New Jersey's festival runs a script contest beside its film program, with feature, short and teleplay categories.
closes in 12 days
The FACTory International Pitching Forum
Documentary and factual teams pitch to commissioners, funders, streamers, sales agents and festivals at AIDC in Sydney in March 2027.
closes in 12 days
令和8年度 橋田賞新人脚本賞 (Hashida Award for New Screenwriters, 2026)
Japanese-language writers can enter either a one-hour drama or a 15 to 20 minute short on the theme of family or something mysterious.
closes in 12 days
FRAPA 2026 (Festival de Roteiro Audiovisual de Porto Alegre)
Porto Alegre hosts a five-day festival given over entirely to screenwriting, held in Portuguese at the Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana in early November 2026.
starts in 13 days
Guionistas del siglo 21: taller intensivo de guión para cine, televisión e internet
Cuba's international film school runs a three-week Spanish-language screenwriting course in November 2026 for up to 12 students, taught by Daniel Tubau.
starts in 13 days
Kreativní vývoj první verze scénáře pro celovečerní hraný film (call 2027-A-1-1-2)
The Czech State Audiovisual Fund pays screenwriters directly to write the first draft of a Czech feature fiction film.
closes in 13 days
Screenwriting: Core Elements (Self-paced), November 2026 session
Trey Ellis teaches this nine-week introduction to feature screenwriting for writers starting from an idea or a rough first draft.
closes in 13 days
VdR-Pitching 2027
Documentary makers with a feature-length film close to shooting can pitch it at Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland, in April 2027.
closes in 13 days
WIF x The Black List Episodic Lab
Women in Film and the Black List run a four-week, in-person TV lab in Los Angeles each March for six to eight writers with a pilot, working on the script, the pitch and a practice writers'…
closes in 13 days
Bolsa Paradiso: TFL ScriptLab e ScriptLab Story Editing 2027
Brazilian screenwriters and story editors accepted into TorinoFilmLab's 2027 ScriptLab can get one of two grants from Projeto Paradiso toward taking part.
closes in 14 days
CPH:FORUM 2027
Copenhagen's documentary festival runs this financing forum for feature-length nonfiction, hybrid and series projects, choosing about 30 from some 900 entries.
closes in 14 days
Robert McKee's STORY Webinar Series (2026 Fall Program)
Robert McKee's STORY seminar, given as 15 pre-recorded lectures of about 90 minutes, shown on Zoom three afternoons a week for five weeks.
starts in 14 days
ScriptLab 2027
For writer-directors at the idea or treatment stage, this nine-month lab develops a feature story in small peer groups led by script consultants.
closes in 14 days
FeatureLab 2027
Aimed at director and producer teams with a first or second feature already in script form, this lab works on rewriting, financing and the route to market.
closes in 16 days
Nordic NEST 2027
Ten established writers, five from Germany and five from the Nordic countries, spend five January days with Le Groupe Ouest on early ideas for features or high-end series, then pitch them…
closes in 16 days
Save the Cat! Beat Sheet Workshop
Playwright and TV writer John Yearley takes up to eight writers from a bare idea to a full 15-beat outline using the Save the Cat method.
starts in 16 days
Tony Cox Screenplay Competition
Nantucket's festival has judged screenplays since the early 2000s and now takes features, hour and half-hour pilots and shorts.
closes in 16 days
2027 Creative Launchpad
Queensland writers, producers and directors chosen for this program sit down with visiting screen professionals in small roundtables while the AACTA Awards and Festival run, February 3 to…
closes in 17 days
Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Out of each year's pool the Atlanta festival picks five scripts: three features, one pilot and one short.
closes in 17 days
South Auckland Short Film Workshop 2026
A one-day class at Friendship House in Manukau for people in South Auckland with an idea for a short film, taught by Tavu'i Dr. Marina Alofagia McCartney, whose credits include the feature…
starts in 18 days
BBC Comedy Liverpool Script Development Project
Growing out of the 2026 BBC Comedy Festival in Liverpool, this scheme wants a returning half-hour sitcom from writers who come from or live in the Liverpool City Region.
closes in 20 days
Omaha Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
A Nebraska festival in its 22nd year that takes feature, teleplay and short scripts alongside films.
closes in 20 days
Residential Writing Course: Adaptation
Writers turning a novel, a podcast or a true family story into a TV series, single drama or play can spend Monday to Saturday at Arvon's Shropshire house with Hannah Griffiths, who runs…
starts in 20 days
Screenwriting: From Outline to First Draft of Your Screenplay (November 2026 session)
Writers who already have an outline, or a draft to rebuild, spend 15 weeks turning it into a complete feature draft of 90 to 120 pages.
closes in 20 days
Writers Campus 2027
Writers without a producer yet can bring a first-season series idea to this five-day campus in Lille, held just before Series Mania Forum.
closes in 20 days
Writing the TV Pilot
Over two weeks on Zoom, writers draft a full 50-minute pilot for an original drama series, writing a few minutes a day and rewriting overnight.
starts in 20 days
BlueCat Screenplay Competition 2027
BlueCat has been running since 1998 and returns written notes on every script entered, so a writer gets feedback whether or not the script places.
closes in 21 days
Cartoon Movie 2027
Animated features at any phase, from first concept to sneak preview, are pitched to European financiers and distributors at this forum in Bordeaux.
closes in 23 days
Creative Screenwriting UNIQUE VOICES Screenplay Competition (Season 12)
Only the last tier of this feature and pilot contest is left: scripts are due November 12, 2026, at 79 dollars.
closes in 23 days
Drafting Your Feature Screenplay in Five Days
Kat O'Brien teaches this Monday-to-Friday Zoom intensive on drafting a feature quickly, from 1 to 4 p.m. Pacific each afternoon.
closes in 23 days
Sélection Annuelle 2027
Based on the Finistère coast in Brittany, this French program picks eight feature projects a year for coaching with consultant screenwriters from March to November.
closes in 23 days
Basic Course in the Art of Screenwriting (Online and Weekend)
On weekends from mid December to mid February, FTII's Centre for Open Learning teaches screenwriting online in English and Hindi, led by Hindi film writer Vikas Sharma.
closes in 24 days
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2026
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival's industry week groups several markets and talk strands in mid-November.
starts in 24 days
Online Writing Day: Screenwriting (TV Pitch Writing Bootcamp)
A one-day Zoom class with screenwriter and story producer Tolula Dada on writing the documents that sell a TV idea: the premise, the logline, the characters and what keeps a series running.
starts in 24 days
Docustart 2026
For Israeli filmmakers on a first or second feature documentary, this evening lab in Tel Aviv takes a project from early synopsis to a package ready for funds and broadcasters.
closes in 26 days
Crafting Your Short Film Screenplay (December 2026 session)
Over eight self-paced weeks, writers take one short film idea to a finished script of 5 to 15 pages, with lectures by Asher Jelinsky and written notes from an advisor twice along the way.
closes in 27 days
Soutien au scénario : aide à l'écriture et aide à la réécriture (long métrage)
France's national film center gives writers a grant to draft or rework a feature screenplay, judged first by reading committees and then at a hearing before the commission.
closes in 27 days
Stowe Story Labs 2027 Narrative Labs, Writers' Retreats and Fellowships
A Vermont nonprofit runs four-day, in-person labs where screenwriters and filmmakers work on a project, with two 2027 sessions in Stowe and writers' retreats online and in Europe.
closes in 27 days
Sundance Institute Graton Fellowship
Two film artists from California tribes, recognized federally or not, each receive USD 25,000 and a year of backing from Sundance Institute's Indigenous Program.
closes in 27 days
TV Writing: Core Elements (Self-paced), December 2026 session
For writers new to television, Angela LaManna's eight-week course works from a series idea to a full outline of the pilot episode.
closes in 27 days
TV Writing: From Outline to First Draft of Your Pilot
A ten-week course for taking an original TV pilot from outline to a first draft under 60 pages.
closes in 27 days
Expertiser un scénario de fiction (cinéma ou série)
La Fémis runs this part-time course in Paris for experienced readers, consultants and writers who want to sharpen how they assess and give notes on feature and series scripts.
closes in 28 days
11th Annual Feature Comedy Screenwriting Contest
Comedy features only, judged by named producers and executives from companies such as Whitewater Films and Shoot to Midnight.
closes in 29 days
WAVES Film Bazaar 2026
NFDC has run this film market in Goa next to IFFI since 2007, and its 20th edition is 20 to 24 November 2026.
starts in 31 days
Online Screenwriting Course for Film & TV
Ten full days of live online teaching spread across five weekends, for at most eight students, each writing a short screenplay of their own with notes from tutors and classmates.
starts in 32 days
Financiación de cine independiente: dossier, pitch, mercados y coproducciones
Writers with a project in hand, even just a synopsis, spend two weeks in Cuba building the paperwork to finance it: a sales dossier, a pitch and a list of labs, festivals and markets to…
starts in 34 days
Stoffentwicklung für Autor*innen (script development for writers)
Writers living in Austria, or citizens of the EU, EEA or Switzerland, can ask the Austrian Film Institute for a non-repayable grant to write a cinema screenplay or a documentary concept.
closes in 35 days
Thessaloniki Pitching Forum 2027
Tied to the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, this forum selects up to 14 documentary features and docuseries, mostly from Southeastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa.
closes in 36 days
Screen Australia x Australian Children's Television Foundation Kids IP Incubator
Aimed at children's content made for FAST channels and YouTube (Made for Kids), this second round picks up to eight teams for a Melbourne workshop, online modules with overseas platform…
closes in 37 days
Screenwriting Archives Symposium: Contemporary perspectives on an often-underestimated body of work
A free two-day academic meeting at RMIT's city campus on what screenplay archives reveal, run with Montreal's UQAM and CRILCQ.
starts in 37 days
JAFF Market 2026
The market arm of the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival fills the Jogja Expo Center for three days in late November.
starts in 39 days
Write. Design. Build. The Pitch Deck Masterclass
A one-day online class on putting together a pitch deck for a feature, TV pilot or limited series, taught by filmmaker Fenella Greenfield, who runs Euroscript's annual Screen Story…
starts in 40 days
ComedyLab 2027
Comedy is the whole subject of this lab, which takes writers and directors with a comic film project and also comedians who want to learn screen storytelling.
closes in 41 days
Lights, Action, Christmas!
Holiday TV movies are the whole subject of these four evening Zoom classes with Karen Schaler and Joany Kane, both of whom have written Christmas films for Netflix, Hallmark and Lifetime.
starts in 41 days
Series Mania Forum Co-Pro Pitching Sessions 2027
Producers carrying a drama series that still needs international money can apply to pitch it at Series Mania in Lille.
closes in 41 days
Television Writing Conservatory
Eight writers spend most of 2027 in this live Zoom class from UCLA Extension, meeting two evenings a week to write two original pilots, each with an outline, a pitch and a bible.
closes in 41 days
第3回StellaJeanコンテスト 青春小説・シナリオ・プロット大賞 (3rd StellaJean Contest: youth novel, screenplay and plot)
Run on BookLive's StellaJean writing platform, this Japanese contest takes youth stories as a screenplay, a novel or only a plot, looking for material to adapt.
closes in 41 days
Whistler Film Festival Content Summit 2026
The industry side of the Whistler Film Festival runs four days in early December, with panels, masterclasses, case studies and booked one-to-one meetings with executives.
starts in 43 days