We are thrilled to share the five writers / writing teams who have risen to the top as our Write LA '21 Finalists. These writers will each have their script read/considered for representation by 5 different Literary Management Companies - Zero Gravity, Fourward, Fictional Entity, Circle of Confusion and Grandview! The Finalists will also get a free copy of Final Draft 12 courtesy of Final Draft and an additional screenwriting book courtesy of Michael Wiese Productions, along

We are thrilled to share the five writers / writing teams who have risen to the top as our 2020 Write LA Finalists. These writers will each receive targeted promotion through Roadmap Writers to Roadmap’s extensive network of agents, managers, and producers. To date, Roadmap Writers has helped 130 writers land representation! The Finalists will also get a free copy of Final Draft 11 courtesy of Final Draft and an additional screenwriting book courtesy of Michael Wiese Producti

We’re just too dang excited about our new and improved prizes this season, so instead of waiting until April 15 as planned, Write LA is opening for entries right now! But that’s just the start of the good news… We’re Offering 10% Off Our Lowest Entry Fee for One Week In light of the financial hardship that so many are facing at the moment, we want to make this competition as accessible to as many writers around the world as we can. With that in mind, if your feature or pilot

It doesn’t take much to get started on your first screenplay – all you really need is a pencil and paper. But if you want the physical task of writing and formatting a screenplay to be about a billion times easier, your very first investment is likely to be screenwriting software. And no name is more trusted or more well respected in that regard than Final Draft. A Cast & Crew Company, Final Draft has published Final Draft software – the number-one selling screenwriting appli

There’s no shortage of ways to learn about screenwriting. You can watch YouTube videos, attend webinars, read produced screenplays, read bad screenplays, take classes, get coverage on your own work. But for me (Angela) personally – and I think for many other writers – the foundation of my screenwriting education has been books. Classics like The Writer’s Journey, The Coffee Break Screenwriter, Rewrite, and Save the Cat… they all have one thing in common: they’re all published

As you may have already heard, we’re making some big changes this year at Write LA. We’ve held onto our core mission – helping dedicated writers improve their craft, build their community, and have their work celebrated. But we’ve added one very big new piece to the pie this year, and that’s helping our winner and finalists get repped. How? Through the help of the good people at Roadmap Writers. Roadmap Writers has helped – at current count – 111 writers find representation s

Write LA is back for our third season, and we’re making some changes that we’re really excited about! We’re confident Write LA 3.0 is going to be our best competition yet. We’ve listened, we’ve learned, and we want to make the prizes as valuable for writers as possible. So this year we’ll have one winner, five finalists, and fifteen semifinalists, all of whom will get a lot of love and attention. A quick note about COVID-19: Our prize package involves a trip for the winner to

We are thrilled to announce that the second season of Write/LA is open for entries. The early deadline is on 6/5, the regular deadline is 6/25, and the final deadline is 7/15. Write/LA accepts both feature and original pilot scripts. Write/LA is an annual screenwriting competition co-run by LA Screenwriter and LiveRead/LA. We had our first season last year, and it was an amazing success. Take a look at what we did. Enter Now via FilmFreeway What Makes Write/LA Worth Entering?