2021-22 FICTION PODCAST WINNERS

We are honored to announce the Winners of our Fiction Podcast Contest! The Shore Scripts Team will now commence work with our winning writers to prepare their podcast pilot projects for production. 

For full details of what happens next, check out our Podcast post-contest timeline

We would like to send our heartfelt thanks to everyone for choosing to participate, and for making it such a high-quality contest. 

With the ever-increasing listenership and influence podcasts are having in the entertainment industry, we are positive that the many other talented writers who entered will go on to have successful careers in the industry.

Download our CONTEST CALENDAR to ensure you never miss a future deadline.

SPOOR

A sergeant begins to spiral out of control as he works on a murder case that resembles that of his Taborri girlfriend who disappeared one year ago.

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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES

When the high school seniors in Mr. Blick’s Media Studies class are assigned to make a podcast about their hometown of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, they uncover a secret within the walls of the school that puts their lives at risk.

READ THE PRE-RECORD Q&A WITH THE WRITERS

In addition to our two grant winners, we would like to congratulate our Top 5 Finalists.

SPOOR by Dylan Campbell
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LOTTIE CARMICHAEL by Patrick Emile
THE ESTATE by Lewis Carter
THE PASSENGER by Allie Ruben & Colin Stanley
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES by Lesley Hennen, Helene Griffin & Max Rasmussen

This season, our Top 5 Finalists will receive a Free Copy of Final Draft & Free Membership to our exclusive writers’ forum THE SCRIPT HUB. Plus, the Grand Prize Winner will also receive a free 6-Month Membership to Libro.fm, including 6 credits to use on the audiobook their choice of 150,000+ audiobooks, regardless of price (available in the US & Canada only).

OUR 15 PODCAST FINALISTS

(in alphabetical order)

	Allie Rubin & Colin Stanley	The Passenger	After she’s mailed a chilling audio recording from an anonymous source, Hannah Willetts decides to investigate what caused the death of her sister, who perished in a mysterious cult ten years earlier.
	Cassandra Wells	Tales of Dread: The Monkey’s Paw	When an elderly couple evokes the magic of a powerful talisman, a mummified monkey’s paw, and are granted three wishes, they discover (to their detriment) the hidden meaning behind the vaguely sinister adage “be careful what you wish for.”
	Cristina Pippa & Sharon Kenny	Teen Medium	A teenage pianist is contacted by the dead lead of her high school musical — through song. Attempting to solve a murder only gets her into trouble with the police, who want to know why she has so many of the dead girl’s things, and other spirits start chiming in that they want her help too.
	Daisy  Long, Daniel Ison, & Katherine Castro	Celestia	One man’s search for a future in the sun leads him to a city where he can escape his past but he can’t escape the darkness.
	Dylan Campbell	Spoor	A sergeant begins to spiral out of control as he works on a murder case that resembles that of his Taborri girlfriend who disappeared one year ago.
	Lesley Hennen, Helene Griffin, & Max Rasmussen	Truth or Consequences	When the high school seniors in Mr. Blick’s Media Studies class are assigned to make a podcast about their hometown of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, they uncover a secret within the walls of the school that puts their lives at risk.
	Lewis Carter	The Estate	Down on her luck voice actor, Echo Wilson must find her own voice when confronted with a malevolent force while investigating her favorite horror novelist’s death.
	Matthew McLachlan	The Demand Of Avarice	When the world’s three wealthiest billionaires wake in a dank basement to find that they have been kidnapped by a masked vigilante, they soon discover that their wealth and power will do nothing to grant them their freedom. In fact, the cost will be far greater than they could ever fathom.
	Milly James	The Oakston Mystery	Ordinary lives are disrupted by the alleged suicide of a schoolgirl and the arrival of a mysterious teacher.
	Patrick Emile	The Disappearance Of Lottie Carmichael	Two true-crime podcasters slip ever deeper into a violent world as they investigate the seemingly impossible vanishing of a local college student.
	Philip Catherwood	The Dial-Up	Two lonely Scottish men stumble across each other in a random, internet voice call, but soon realize they’re both talking from two different time periods – one in present-day 2021, one in late 1999.
	Randy Parker	The Vairon	Seven seemingly random passengers on a cruise to Neptune join together on an emergency communication channel to figure out why they all passed out, why they can’t reach anyone else on the ship, and why the ship’s AI has locked them in their cabins.
	Rick Kinnebrew	The White City: an Audible Exhibition on H.H. Holmes, Murderer	Ben Pitezel can’t provide his wife Carrie with a house or even a working stove as he strives to find work in Chicago during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Hired by  H.H. Holmes, Ben is happy to become the pharmacist’s confidant and only friend. But the friendship leads Ben into fraud and murder.
	Sean Braswell	Earworm	An ancient tune, lost for centuries, alters the minds and lives of everyone who hears it.
	Stephanie Elie	Alpha 8	An alien seeks to understand the meaning of family by surreptitiously implanting herself into a human household, only to discover it takes more than supermom skills to keep everyone together.