Congratulations to the Top 50 Finalists from this year’s competition! Our Top 10 list will be announced on September 24th.
| Title | Writer(s) |
| 2 6 8 | Marcus Ashley |
| After School | Aaron Barrocas |
| Alien of Extraordinary Ability | Rishan Dhamija, Edwin Joseph and Sola Fadiran |
| Altered | Evyn Williams |
| Apollo 19 | Ray Gettman Bush |
| Blackappella | Danny Rogers |
| Clean Slate | Indigo Hinton |
| Codeswitch | Sasha Kai Parker |
| Desi Family | HUSE MADHAVJI |
| Dex and Lilla: Galactic Explorers | Rose Bueno |
| Entre Nos | Jesenia Ruiz |
| First | Joe Haar |
| Firt | Peter Sullivan |
| Flower Girls | Eleanor Cho |
| Forgive and Forget | Eugene Garcia-Cross |
| Fuckboi | Warner Wood |
| GeriOsity | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Hatch | Sandy Nicholson |
| Hood | Pab Sungenis |
| Joe | Fred Salmon |
| Kintsugi | Lisa Sanaye Dring |
| Leatherette | Michael KY Yip |
| Little Helpers | Jacob S. Wydra |
| Mother Mary | Emily-Anne Mikos |
| Mystic | Cody Ashford and Eric Vue |
| Nannies of Belle Meade | Jessica Walter |
| Off the Rack | Pilar Gibson |
| Over The Hill | Ashley Hiller |
| Palmer Island | Bianca J. Ursillo |
| Pastor Kamal | Navid Mehrjou |
| Private Di | Alex May |
| Pulp Paper Nightmares | Ashley McCann |
| RMS Windel | Sierra Sands |
| Sage Canyon | Justine Ferrara |
| Shadowlink | Alana Grace |
| Single A.F. | Tosin Morohunfola |
| Sorta Rican | Jorge Thomson |
| Storme | John Lowe |
| The Secret Life of Samira Sen | Minoti Vaishnav |
| The Several Ghosts of Fantabulous Land | Thomas Bell |
| The Squire | DaManuel Richardson |
| The Taking of Lincoln Hospital | Karina Hurtado |
| Tino 99 | Byron Qiao |
| True North | Hope Tarr and Raj Moorjani |
| Undertaken | Jamie Severson |
| Voice | Kayla Rundquist |
| What’s Granddad | Ivy Johnson |
| Whisky Charlie Two | Harriet O’Neill |
| Who is Monica Strange? | Andrea Shawcross |
| Wild Forensics | Bill Watson and Emma Hamilton |
Make sure to check back for further announcements! Full details about the competition can be found here.
(As a reminder: If you entered into the Mentorship Program, or signed up to be part of the Guaranteed Signing or Guaranteed Option prizes, regardless of making the Top 50, you are still in contention for those prizes. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners)
