SUBMISSIONS NOW ACCEPTED FOR 2011 FESTIVAL COMPETITION!
Discovering New Mysteries is now accepting submissions of original plays, screenplays, teleplays, and short stories for both adult and youth audiences.
Deadline for submissions is October 31, 2010. The final selection of mysteries, thrillers, who-dunnits, cops-n-robbers, courtroom dramas, suspense or adventures, will be produced and presented before live audiences on several stages within the RiverPark Center, home of the International Mystery Writers’ Festival
The festival finalists will be personally notified in early 2011 with national press coverage of the finalists’ performances to be released shortly thereafter.
FESTIVAL DATES ARE: JUNE 13 – JUNE 19, 2011
The International Mystery Writers’ Festival awards are named for Oscar, Tony & Emmy Award winning star Angela Lansbury. The “Angie Awards”, will be presented in the following key categories:
BEST NEW WORK, plus a $2,500 prize
MOST PROMISING NEW WRITER, plus a $1,000 prize
OUTSTANDING SCREENPLAY or TELEPLAY, plus a $1,000 prize
BEST WORK FOR YOUNG ADULTS OR CHILDREN, plus $500
BEST SHORT MYSTERY (1-Act plays, short screenplay, short story), plus $500
THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Over $5,000 in cash prizes for winners + prestigious Angie Awards!
TO ENTER:
Send FULL SCRIPT Submissions with a separate cover page with author information to:
“Discovering New Mysteries” at RiverPark
Attn: Donna Conkwright
101 Daviess Street
Owensboro, KY 42303
Or
Please do not list the author’s name or contact information on script pages or title page.
*Eligible works may not have been professionally produced (for profit) at any time.
Festival Executive Committee:
Zev Buffman, RiverPark CEO/Festival Co‐Producer/Chair
Roxi Witt, RiverPark G.M./Festival Co‐Producer
Lee Goldberg, Co‐Chair
Stuart Kaminsky, (posthumous)
René Balcer (Law & Order) Anthony Zuiker (CSI)
Robert Levinson William Link (Columbo)
Ira Levin (posthumous) Sue Grafton
Angela Lansbury Mary Higgins Clark
Rupert Holmes Samuel “Biff” Liff