| The Baltimore Film Office will accept entries for the 2010 Baltimore Screenwriters Competition on October 1, 2009 through January 29, 2010. The early submission deadline for entries is November 30, 2009. The early submission application fee is $35; thereafter, the fee is $50. The absolute deadline for entries is January 29, 2010. Final scripts will be judged by film industry professionals. Returning judges are Grant Curtis, Nina Noble and Richard Walter. The competition is designed to create awareness of screenplay as a literary art form and to encourage new screenwriters into the entertainment industry. The Baltimore Screenwriters Competition is a project of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Film Office at the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and sponsored by Municipal Employees Credit Union of Baltimore (MECU), Maryland Film Festival, NEXTCAR and Visit Baltimore. For an application or more information, please click here. The winners of the fourth annual Baltimore Screenwriters Competition were Steven Sullivan, David King and Ralph Hruban, and Chris LaMartina. SCREENWRITING RESOURCES *Important Viewing Today from Roundtable on Television on the Internet Screenwriting Sites *Great Columns and general information *Copyright information to Augment WGA *Charles Deemer: Nuts & Bolts Screenwriting Section *Author’s website with great links & columns *Writer’s Guild of America *Best website for free screenplays in master scene format (and transcript form only) *Strunk and White’s Elements of Style On-line |















