Lights, camera, action! We're searching for the next great unproduced screenplay to bring to life with the star power of TABLE READ. Features — Pilots — Series. One gifted writer will live out their Hollywood dream when industry icons breathe life into their vision during an immersive studio production to be featured on TABLE READ Season 2 alongside some of Hollywood's Top Talent. TABLE READ Season 1 has been on Apple's Top 10 Fiction for 39 consecutive weeks, has been nominated over 22 times, boasts 12+ Festival Selections, and has won over 8 Awards... and counting.

Picture this: your raw creativity transformed into an audio spectacle set in a stylish LA recording studio. A 20-person cast of working actors and iconic figures inject intrigue, humor, and emotion into your characters right before your eyes. An award-winning technical team punctuates each moment with cinema-quality sound design and score performed by top-working talent.

The winning script won't just meet with critical reception from our award-winning team. It will bask in the glow of Table Read’s podcast spotlight, which shone on 3 million eager downloads in Season 1. It will inherit the legacy of producers and writers like Anonymous Content, Scooter Braun, Ty Burrell, Tommy Wallach, and Sonny Postiglione while establishing the winner as part of Hollywood’s next wave of elite screenwriting talent.

And that lucky writer could be you! Finishers will earn cash prizes while soaking up the insider access and luxurious star treatment.

So what are you waiting for? Channel your inner creativity and send us your masterpiece today. Table Read is your exclusive portal into Hollywood’s inner circle as we transform undiscovered talent into spotlighted sensations. Let’s make movie magic!

Check out TABLE READ here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/table-read/id1673590083

Read About TABLE READ here:

https://deadline.com/2023/03/struggling-to-sell-pilot-script-table-read-podcast-1235280538/
https://deadline.com/2023/10/table-read-podcast-sag-aftra-1235580259/

Awards & Prizes

Table Read Screenwriting Contest Prizes

First Place:

• $1,000 cash prize
• An all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles
• Attend live studio production of your screenplay
• Table Read podcast creates fully produced episodes of your script featured among season 2 titles!
• Table Read podcast will produce a trailer for your script to be featured on the podcast

Second Place:

• $500 cash prize
• Table Read podcast will provide a full professionally narrated read of your script with score and mixing, to be available as an episode on the Table Read podcast
• Table Read podcast will produce a trailer for your script to be featured on the podcast

Third Place:

• $250 cash prize
• Table Read podcast will produce a trailer for your script to be featured on the podcast

Rules & Terms

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1) Submitted scripts must be original screenplays, and the sole property of the applicant(s). Screenplays submitted must not have been previously sold or produced. Adapted or based on screenplays are also accepted. It is the sole responsibility of the applicant to register their screenplay and secure clearance from the copyright holders of any copyrighted materials included within the submitted screenplay. All entrants, including the nominees and winners, retain complete and exclusive rights to their work.
2) All ages are eligible, and you can submit from any country.
3) All entries must be in English.
4) We accept screenplays between 1-140 pages in length. For scripts over 140 pages, you would need to pay an additional fee.
5) There is no limit to the number of screenplays you may submit. *Fee per submitted script
6) All entries must be uploaded in PDF format. Contact details or names are allowed to be on the title page, but not recommended.
7) All screenplays should be written in industry standard format.
8) Substitutions of either corrected pages or new drafts of the entry screenplay(s) are accepted. However, you would need to pay an additional fee
9) Competition judges, readers and employees of our competition, past and present, and their immediate friends and families, are NOT eligible to enter. Previous winning and finalist scripts are also NOT eligible.
10) Entries must be received on or before the deadlines and submission fee payment must be made in full at time of the submission. Entry fees (including services fees) are non-refundable and we do not provide any feedback (except for paid feedback).
11) By entering TABLE READ Competition you agree to all the rules listed. Regardless of your status (winner, nominee, or neither), please note that your script, logline and contact information may be shared with our partners and sponsors, and by submitting you agree with that. You also agree to release and hold harmless The TABLE READ Script Competition and its subsidiary, parent and affiliated companies from and against any and all claims, expenses, and liability, including but not limited to damages and negligence to property and persons, including but not limited to invasion of privacy, defamation, slander, libel, violation of right of publicity, copyright, infringement of trademark or other intellectual property rights relating to a participant’s entry, participation in the contest and/or acceptance or use or misuse of the prize.