International Writing Competition | Screenplay | HH Publishing

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320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.

The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk

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320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.

The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk

320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.

The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk

320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.

The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.

The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk

320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.

The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By submitting your entry you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions.

All entries must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but stories must be withdrawn from this contest immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. The entry fee will not be refunded. (Note: If your story is posted on a personal blog, please remove it before submitting.)

Entries that fall outside the parameters of the set out in the submission guidelines will be disqualified. The entry fee will not be refunded.

Current and former employees of Hammond House Publishing and their family members are not eligible. Previous contest entrants, including winners, are free to submit.

Entrants agree to their submitted manuscripts being published and or performed as required by Hammond House publishing for a period of 12 months from the date of winners being announced.

All revenue from the sale of published work from competition entries will be retained by Hammond House Publishing Ltd to contribute to the cost of administrating the competition and other activities.

Copyright of all manuscripts submitted remains with the Author, who is free to publish their work elsewhere on the announcement of competition results unless their work is chosen for publication, in which case they are required not to publish elsewhere until 12 months after first being published by Hammond House Publication Ltd in which their work is included. This only applies to competition entries and does not include other work submitted by members for publication on the Hammond House site, for which the Author would receive any revenue due under the terms and conditions that apply at that time.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By submitting your entry you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions.

All entries must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but stories must be withdrawn from this contest immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. The entry fee will not be refunded. (Note: If your story is posted on a personal blog, please remove it before submitting.)

Entries that fall outside the parameters of the set out in the submission guidelines will be disqualified. The entry fee will not be refunded.

Current and former employees of Hammond House Publishing and their family members are not eligible. Previous contest entrants, including winners, are free to submit.

Entrants agree to their submitted manuscripts being published and or performed as required by Hammond House publishing for a period of 12 months from the date of winners being announced.

All revenue from the sale of published work from competition entries will be retained by Hammond House Publishing Ltd to contribute to the cost of administrating the competition and other activities.

Copyright of all manuscripts submitted remains with the Author, who is free to publish their work elsewhere on the announcement of competition results unless their work is chosen for publication, in which case they are required not to publish elsewhere until 12 months after first being published by Hammond House Publication Ltd in which their work is included. This only applies to competition entries and does not include other work submitted by members for publication on the Hammond House site, for which the Author would receive any revenue due under the terms and conditions that apply at that time.

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SOPHIE HOLLINGSWORTH

Twenty-four-year-old Sophie lives in the peaceful village of New Waltham and enjoys walking in the local countryside with her young puppy, Jasper. Her wide range of work includes screenplays, historical fiction and short stories. Inclination Pursuit, her latest short story set in a dystopian London a hundred years in the future will be published by Hammond House later this year. Sophie’s guilty pleasure is daytime TV, where she finds inspiration for new and unique characters. If you like your fantasy mixed with a good dose of science fiction, you’ll love reading Sophie.

Inclination Pursuit

Everything is as it should be In a world where mind control signals have abolished wars and banished independent thought ... until a signal fails inside one girl's mind, and the compliant world that has been created unfolds in front of her. Eighteen-year-old Kimmy has lived her whole life in the city, surrounded by a population who are being controlled by higher powers. They reside in tall towers in the middle of every city in the world. Signals are sent out to microchips, implanted in people’s necks as soon as they are born, to stop free will and to try and ‘save’ society from the state of war and poverty it had got itself into in the past. When Kimmy starts suffering blinding headaches she wonders what is happening as she begins to feel her own free will coming through for the first time. As she tries to explain to people what is happening to her and tries to convince them to stand with her against the conformity, she comes up against the controllers who are determined to get her back in line, no matter what it takes.

Annabel's War

Annabel's father has gone away to fight in World War II. In his absence Annabel and her mother battle the loneliness and fear which comes with living in London during wartime.

Escape - Screen play

A downtrodden woman, Mia, experiences first hand the horrors of domestic mental and physical abuse. Her fight to escape from her partner Adam's clutches results in unforeseeable circumstances which change everything.

SCREENPLAY COMPETITION

Short film script (up to 10 pages)

Winner: £100 & Trailer

2nd Place: Trailer

3rd Place: Trailer

Entries open from 6th February 2019

Entry Fee: £10

Hammond House Members: £5

Feedback Option: £10

Submission Deadline: 30th September 2019

Scripts should be submitted in a PDF file using the correct industry format. We recommend using industry-standard software such as CELTX for scriptwriting. You can download a free version here.

Your name must NOT appear anywhere on the manuscript itself, as the contest is judged anonymously.

For full Terms and Conditions and Submission Guidelines, click here.

CLOSED

Our annual Hammond House Screenplay Competition attracts writers from around the world in search of recognition and valuable feedback. The winners receive a cash prize, and trailers for the first three places. Our 2019 competition, LEAVING, proved extremely popular, receiving entries from over twenty-five different countries.

The theme for the 2020 competition - SURVIVAL - is intended to be inspirational, not restrictive, so please feel free to interpret it in any way you choose. Be creative, be unpredictable, be different; the judges are looking for honesty and emotion.