Elsie Hedgspeth & Andrew Stengele talk to ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about Pens to Lens screenwriting competition.

Each fall, students squeeze between tables at the first Student Organization Fair of the year, listening to pitches from Northwestern’s prestigious clubs with claims of famous alumni and decades of ...

Scribes behind six of the season's most acclaimed scripts — including John Krasinski, Tamara Jenkins and Peter Farrelly — dish on the bittersweet beauty of a great love story, those wrongheaded studio ...

In a world where people tell their stories on film from ideas that start on paper, there are two powerful platforms that provide all the tools budding screenwriters need: Final Draft and Celtx. One is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The author of many tech books, Michael Ashley covers AI and Big Data. If you were paying attention to Hollywood, the summer of ...

The first Oscar for Best Original Screenwriting, awarded during a brisk fifteen-minute ceremony that took place over the clinking sounds of dinner in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List will open submissions for the 2025 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting via its website at 9 a.m. PDT on May 15. The widely known ...

The Drexel Westphal Screenwriting & Playwriting Program guides emerging artists in their pursuit of a career writing for the stage or screen. Our discipline is about writing for production – rather ...

Choosing to become a screenwriter is one of the biggest life decisions you’ll ever make. It takes hard work, discipline, and a willingness to hear a lot of people tell you “No” before finally hearing ...

George Lucas defied many of the commandments of screenwriting, so why is the Star Wars saga so memorable? We ask a script expert. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm ...

This article originally appeared in the July 1991 issue of Esquire. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. Several years ago my five-year-old daughter bounced into my study ...