In August 2025, several of your favorite screenwriting platforms and resources will no longer be available.
In the last year, I’ve entered several screenwriting competitions, mostly through the platform FilmFreeway. Recently, I’ve used Coverfly for two competitions that are currently ongoing. Today, I received a notification that Coverfly is going offline on August 1st. Meanwhile, two of the competitions I entered won’t issue the next round of announcements until after that date.
Upon further research, I found that a few other screenwriting resources will also be shutting down: ScreenCraft and The Script Lab. It sounds like the industry is looking to consolidate a lot of these competition platforms. I can appreciate that since it is often time-consuming to track competition submissions on multiple platforms.
Luckily, most of my competition entries are on the surviving competition platform FilmFreeway. However, in Reddit conversations around this topic, writers found it convenient to have all of their competition submissions and placements in one place, such as with Coverfly.
Coverfly does give users the option to export their data. It’s very easy to do, so take advantage of that option now so that you don’t lose information from competitions that you’ve entered.
What other screenwriting resources have you used that have gone away?
Gina N. Anderson 