1.  The entry consists of four copies of the first fifteen pages of your script and a cover sheet.  Your entry may be fewer than 15 pages.  The script must be unsold, uncontracted and unproduced before 5/22/2006.

2.  Standard script format is required.  Clean photocopies are acceptable.  Do not include your name anywhere on the entry itself or the cover sheet.  Use two brads to hold together each copy of the entry pages and cover sheet.

3.  Include the following items on your cover sheet: the title of your entry (in all caps), the genre, and a one to two sentence logline. 

4.  Contest Fees per entry:   $20 for Scriptscene members; $25 other RWA members. US funds only.  Please make your check or money order payable to Scriptscene RWA.  If you received a coupon from last year’s contest, they will be honored this year.  

5.  Your entry must be postmarked no later than May 15, 2006 and received no later than May 22, 2006.  Please do not send it in any manner that requires a signature from the recipient.  Instead you may include a self-addressed, stamped postcard that the coordinator will return to you, confirming receipt of the entry.  

6.  Judges may make written comments directly on the script.  Score sheets will be completed and returned in your SASE.  Be sure to enclose a large envelope with sufficient postage for return of your entries and score sheets.  No entries or score sheets will be returned without an SASE.

7.  An entry must earn a minimum score of 80 in order to be considered among the finalists.

8.  An entry must be an original story created solely by the entrant.  The entrant has all rights to the story.   If the entry is a collaboration, all the rules apply for each writer.  Though one entry and fee is submitted for a
collaboration, each writer completes an entry form and signs an agreement.

9.  The entrant must have registered the complete screenplay with either the Writer's Guild of America or the United States Copyright Office.

10.  NEW IN 2006! Some judges may accept electronic entries this year. Once all the contest submissions are received, entrants will be randomly assigned judges. If an entrant has a judge who prefers electronic entries, the entrant will be asked to send an electronic file of the entry. All other rules of entry apply (only the first 15 pages, acceptable format, no name on script, etc.)  

  DO NOT SEND ELECTRONIC FILE unless requested by the contest chairperson. The chairperson will send an e-mail request; the entrant will submit electronically in the requested format.

11.  No fees will be returned on any entry that is disqualified for any reason.

12.  This contest is limited to the first 25 entries received.  Entries over the limit of 25 will be accepted only if enough judges are available to give each a fair reading.  Fees will be returned for any entries that are returned under these circumstances.

13.  Scriptscene RWA reserves the right to cancel the contest if fewer than ten entries are received.  In the event of such a cancellation, entries and fees will be returned to entrants.

14.  The entrant must be a member of Romance Writers of America in good standing.  By signing the agreement, the entrant is providing permission for the contest coordinator to verify standing.

15.  You may enter no more than two scripts, and the contestant's agreement must be signed and returned for each entry.

ENTRIES must have romantic elements; if the romance is not plot A, it must be plot B.