Say hello to this years judges! All are prolific writers as well as long-time members here at theOffice. The deadline to enter is July 31st, so make sure you get your submission in soon!
Elise Loehnen
Elise does it all! Writer, editor, blogger, and podcaster. Her 2023 book, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good, is a New York Times bestseller. Previously, Elise was the editor at Lucky Magazine and was the chief content officer at Goop.
Roberto Marinas
Roberto is a screenwriter known for his work on Lasso and Headgame. Roberto is a recipient of the Walt Disney Studios Screenwriting Fellowship and his feature The Last Road Home won an honorable mention for the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. He is also an educator who currently teaches at the UCLA Extension Program.
Andrea Shawcross
With an arsenal of produced features and contest-winning pilots under her belt, Andrea Shawcross is a woman obsessed with writing thrillers and mysteries about obsessed women. Her produced films include Billion Dollar Bluff (Tubi), If I Go Missing (Tubi), and FAME: A Temptation Story (Lifetime). In 2022, Andrea won the top prize in both the Launch Pad and ScreenCraft Pilot Competitions with her YA mystery Who Is Monica Strange? And in 2024, she became a Moonshot Initiative Pilot Accelerator fellow.
To get your work read by these industry professionals, make sure you submit by midnight PST on July 31st. More info on this year’s fellowship here. Best of luck on your entry!
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