We would like to each and every one of the entrants for the 2008 Blazing Quill Screenwriting Competition. We received a record amount of entries and a record amount of good, solid screenplays. Entries were judged on originality, creativity, and industry standard formatting. We were looking for a writer's sincere effort to produce a quality story. All winners will receive a congratulatory letter with details of their prizes enclosed. The winners of the 2008 Blazing Quill Screenwriting Competition are as follows:

First Place
Name: Julia Cunningham
Screenplay: Damien and Isabella
Brief Synopsis: Damien and Isabella are two star-crossed sweethearts in 19th century France. However, when Damien wounds the son of the Vicomte defending Isabella’s honor he must go to war to serve out his sentence. Now believing Damien to be dead, Isabella is driven into madness and the arms of another man. With Damien’s return the two lovers must fight the class system and Isabella’s impending marriage to a man she doesn’t love in this grown up fairy tale of passion, loss, and revenge.

Second Place
Name: Jeremy Dorfman
Screenplay: Love Me Don't
Brief Synopsis: When the husband in a couple who were married purely out of spite has an affair, he decides to search out a man for his wife to have an affair with, so as to put her at fault for the divorce.

Third Place
Name: Timothy Armstrong
Screenplay: Trash
Brief Synopsis: A boy and a girl fall through the city dump into a magical underground world where they befriend strange thrown-away creatures called Trash. The Trash are wary of wasteful humans, but they accept Jack and Desiree, and together they fight the Deadpans - evil scrap-iron soldiers who are plotting to blow up the world above.

Honorable Mentions
Gridiron Gaels by Andrew Black
Mistress of the Sea by Rebecca Howland

 

Finalists:

Merzouk by Ryan Allison
A Task of Draculian Proportions: The Quest for Kermit the Vampire by Dave Vaughan
The Avon Man by Dave Vaughan
Flying With the Devil by Roi J. Tankin
Gridiron Gaels by Andrew Black
Long Way Home by Chris Morrison
Straightening Simon by Gary Barrett
The Moon and the Sea by Kristina Tew
Killer Solitaire by Tom Basham
Putting Honey on Fractures by Courtenay Dolson
Mistress of the Sea by Rebecca Howland
Damien and Isabella by Julia Cunningham
Love Me Don't by Jeremy Dorfman
Trash by Timothy Armstrong
Journal of a Dinka Boy by Jomo Merritt

Semi-Finalists

The Swimmer Manuscript	Cold Blooded
Putting Honey on Fractures	Lone Cypress
The Ace of Aces	Splintered Porch
Borders of Paradise	Kamikaze
Fortune Cookies	Devil's Due
The Devil's Chaplin	The Day Rock Died
Draft Pick	Damien and Isabella
The Nutcracker	A Death in Concord
The Raven's Treasure	'a fish story'
Love Me Don't	Journal of a Dinka Boy
Outside the Box	Allargando
Welcome to Gary	Looking for Leonardo
From Time to Time	The Year of the Dragon
King of Tragedy	Sleep Traveler
Falling Into Place	Brave
Powder Brown	Girls on the Run
Milkweed	My Own Private Myocardial Infarction
Mistress of the Sea	Blood Angel
Long Way Home	Savage Paradise
Realm of the Goddess	Doll
Trash	W.A.S.P.
Judgement Way	Merzouk
Lone Dog Barking	Olas Altas
Savage Paradise	Long Way Home
Countdown to Bliss	Attempting to Connect
Money Dearest	Just Like Chicanery
Gridiron Gaels	Straightening Simon
Opposites Attract	Killer Solitaire
Moon Walkers	When Women Rule
Flying With the Devil	Switched Fate
The Moon and the Sea	The Dragon's Lair
The Avon Man	The Sketch Comedy Movie
A Task of Draculian Proportions: The Quest for Kermit the Vampire	The Dubious and Dangerous Legacy of Lady Zac-Kuk

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