Submissions now accepted for 2008 Festival competition!
43 of 48 sold out performances from twelve final works in the First
Annual Mystery Writers' Festival took place in Owensboro, KY during
June 2007, with agents, critics and top industry professionals among
the 10,000 audience members. An impressive line-up of multiple award-winning
authors shared the same bill with the industry's best emerging writers
as audience members selected the next great Mysteries of stage and screen.
Now, it is your turn to enter this international festival as we continue
Discovering New Mysteries!
"Discovering New Mysteries" is NOW accepting submissions
of original plays, screenplays, teleplays and short stories. Deadline
for submissions is November 30, 2007. A new work qualifies so long as
it has not been presented professionally (for profit) within the United
States.
A panel of professional readers will review the
scripts and narrow the field to the Final 15 "mysteries" or Who-Dunnits,
Cops & Robbers, courtroom dramas, Thrillers or Adventures.
The "Festival Final 15" will be notified no later
than February 2008 with national press coverage of the finalists' performances
to be released shortly thereafter.
THE FESTIVAL DATES ARE: JUNE 12 – JUNE 22, 2008
The Annual International Mystery Writers' Festival awards are named for Oscar,
Tony & Emmy Award winning star ANGELA LANSBURY who has been asked to co-host
the Awards Ceremony and Festival Gala. The "Angie Awards", will be presented
in the following key categories:
OVER $20,000 in cash prizes for winners, 8 ANGIES Awarded
BEST NEW WORK, plus a $10,000 prize
MOST PROMISING NEW WRITER, plus a $5,000 prize
OUTSTANDING FULL-LENGTH SCREENPLAY or TELEPLAY, plus a $2,500.00 prize
BEST SHORT MYSTERY PLAY (1-Act), plus $1,000
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY (60 minutes or less), plus $1,000
BEST SHORT STORY (80 pages or less), plus $1,000
BEST WORK FOR YOUNG ADULTS (ages 12-18), plus $1,000
BEST WORK FOR CHILDREN (ages 11 and under), plus $1,000
THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Send full script/story with a separate cover sheet to:
"Discovering New Mysteries" at RiverPark
101 Daviess Street
Owensboro, KY 42302
