Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2024 Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition. These exceptional screenplays and short stories were selected from over 1,124 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Main Category Semifinalists:
Here are the 1 Page Semifinalists:
| WRITER/S | TITLE |
| GEORGE MORRIS | “Keep an Ear Out” |
| FRANCESCA PAZNIOKAS | Annunciation |
| AMELIA CLOVER | Another Mouth to Feed |
| JASON RICE | Breakfast with Bag Man |
| MATT GILBERT | DO-GOODER |
| KELLY ASHER | Don’t Blink |
| VICTORIA HARRIS | Enjoy Your Stay |
| COLE MCCABE | Fill ‘Er Up |
| TRAVIS WILLIAMS | Fish Special |
| DARREN HINCHY | Joe’s End |
| SAM CARRUTHERS | Margaret’s Golden Birthday |
| CHRIS MITCHELL | Mirror Me |
| MOSES NEBRASKA | MUSCLE OUT THE DEMONS |
| NOËMIE MARTINEL | No Peeking |
| PHILLIP DISHON | Reunited |
| EVAN BAUGHFMAN | Scary Larry |
| FRANCESCA PAZNIOKAS | Sea Child |
| JOSEPH X CASILLAS | Ten Thousand |
| FRANCESCA PAZNIOKAS | Terminated |
| MARKO PANDZA & JASON KERR | The Miracle |
| EMMA HUANG | The Smile Room |
| NATHAN PATTON | TRAILER TRASH |
| KARELINE CASTOR | Watch This |
| LEE COTMAN | We Don’t Bite Our Friends |
| AIDAN KILPATRICK | Wet Dreamer |
Here are the Short Story (Prose) Semifinalists:
| WRITER/S | TITLE |
| DEREK LADD | A Shade of Scarlett |
| CHRISTINE RIFKIN | Alternates |
| TIYAN NEWMAN | Eden |
| MARK RENSHAW | Ganglers |
| BRYAN DEMORE | Jeremiah |
| ANDY FARRANT | lofi beats to kill to |
| DANIELA KRÁLOVÁ | Maryja |
| JACKIE FENN | Nurture |
| SHAINUR ULLAH | our teacher doesn’t call us by our real names but by our future potential |
| ADAM NARIMATSU | Out of the Mouths of Babes |
| C. E. SIMON | Red River Valley |
| LARISSA ZAGERIS | Something In the Night |
| JEFFREY FREEMAN | Spirits |
| MELISSA SWEAZY | The Beach House |
| VASANTHI VARADARAJAN | The Birdhouse |
| SURINA BELK-GUPTA | The Burned City |
| LEN FORGUES | The Cat’s Meow |
| JULIE ANN SLABY | The Final Spectacle |
| JON DOUGLAS RAINEY | The Kitchen Drawer |
| C.T. ROEMER | The Mercy |
| AZZURRA ROWLAND | The Unconventional Tea Party |
| CHARLENE CLARKE-TODORUK | The Wood in the Window |
| JERRY SAMPSON | The Wood Sprites Made Me Do It |
| P.M. RAYMOND | Things Are as They Should Be |
| DAVID SHARP | Under the Moonbow |
Big thanks to our sponsors Final Draft, Rue Morgue, Stan Winston School of Character Arts, Horror Pack, QWERKYTOYS, Stage 32, Robert McKee’s Horror Webinar Series, Ghoulish Gary, The Script Butcher, Coverfly, Filmfreeway, Script Hive, ISA, Script Hop, Script Revolution, Scrivener and Fright Rags.
Thanks also to our festival partners, and the following Womxn & BIPOC organizations: The Write or Die Chicks, Women Make Movies, Ladima Foundation, NYWIFT, African American Women in Cinema, The Light Leaks, Hedgebrook, Screen Queens, Rianne Pictures, Alliance of Women Directors, LIFTT, Black Screenwriters, Ms. In the Biz, and Indigenous Australian Filmmakers.
