Awards

Winner of the 2025 SRN Screenwriting Teaching Innovation Award

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Every year, the Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) Teaching Innovation Award recognizes the achievements of an outstanding faculty scholar whose work demonstrates original approaches to supporting the teaching and learning development of screenwriters and scholars of screenwriting. The cerimony is celebrated during the annual conference.

This year´s Teaching Innovation Award Cerimony took place in the SRN Conference, in September, in Adelaide (Australia). The winner is Professor Lucian Georgescu for his pedagogy, curriculum reform, and industry integration at UNATC in Romania, that  are considered both innovative and visionary.

Read the words of the jury regarding the winner:

-He has clearly made a significant impact on his screenwriting students. 

-We are particularly impressed with the exportability of his approach to teaching and learning. Grounded in psychology and practice, Lucian has implemented new teaching methods to equip emerging writers to develop their work within a community of filmmakers — rather than in isolation — enabling them to thrive amid rapidly evolving media and production realities. 

-Lucian’s thirty-year teaching career with visible and impressive results represents the kind of pedagogical leadership the SRN Teaching Innovation Award seeks to honor.

Learn more about the winner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucian-georgescu-a8596510/

Read more about the awards

The committee is particularly interested in reviewing materials from applicants who look critically at their research agenda and teaching practice and consider how in addition to being innovative in their classrooms they are intentionally integrating their screenwriting research into their pedagogy.

Additionally, the committee would like to encourage applicants to:

  • Demonstrate the significance and value of their
  • Address how their research and teaching practice is new to the
  • Consider the exportability of their teaching innovation (how the practice can be adapted by other educators).
  • Demonstrate an overall awareness of their research and teaching innovations and what they are trying to achieve. In other words, clearly articulate pedagogical objectives and the broader significance of their

Members of SRN may self-nominate for the Screenwriting Teaching Innovation Award, or may nominate a colleague.

The Teaching Innovation Award Jury is composed by three eminent academics:

Armando Fumagalli – [email protected]
Dee Hughes – [email protected]
Anna Weinstein – [email protected]

Winners of the SRN Book/Publication Awards 2025

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The SRN AWARDS cerimony was celebrated in the 6th edition at the 2025 Conference in Adelaide, Australia, September 2025.

The Awards this year was again in two categories:

Best Monograph – for single-authored or co-authored volumes (any format) category, the winner was Eva Redvall  for her book entitled “Writing and Producing for Children and Young Audiences: Cases from Danish Film and Television”

Check the words of the jury regarding this winner:

“This book stands out as a unique and timely contribution, offering the first comprehensive, empirically grounded study of Danish media for audiences from toddlers to teenagers. Redvall effectively uses her “Screen Idea System” framework to analyze this often-overlooked sector, brilliantly illuminating how screenwriters, producers, and commissioners engage audiences and reshape script creation, including co-creative practices with children. This work provides valuable global lessons, bridging theoretical frameworks with practical industry knowledge that resonates far beyond a single nation”.

Where to read it: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-67073-2

Best Journal Article/Book Chapter – For articles and chapters normally category, the winners were Craig Batty & Allyson Holbrook for the work entitled “Screenwriting as research: How do doctoral candidates articulate the screenplay as a contribution to knowledge?”

Check the words of the jury regarding this winner:

“This book stands out as a unique and timely contribution, offering the first comprehensive, empirically grounded study of Danish media for audiences from toddlers to teenagers. Redvall effectively uses her “Screen Idea System” framework to analyze this often-overlooked sector, brilliantly illuminating how screenwriters, producers, and commissioners engage audiences and reshape script creation, including co-creative practices with children. This work provides valuable global lessons, bridging theoretical frameworks with practical industry knowledge that resonates far beyond a single nation.”

Where to read it: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790726.2025.2490239?src=exp-la

While no ratings of journals/publishers will be a factor in the evaluation of submissions, all publications should be scholarly, fully peer-reviewed work underpinned by substantial research specifically in the area of Screenwriting Studies.

Learn more about the criteria of the awards

All submissions in both categories should be made directly to all the members of the Jury.

All submissions will be evaluated independently by our Jury of distinguished academics:

Professor Carmen Sofia Brenes [email protected]

Leslie Kreiner Wilson [email protected]

Garrabost Jayalakshmi [email protected]

If you have any enquiries, please contact Rosanne Welch [email protected]

SRN Awards 2024

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The results are in!

Our esteemed judges, Carmen Sofia Brenes, Lee Kreiner Wilson and Garrabost Jayalakshmi are happy to announce the winners of our Book Awards in 2024. They also added this comment:

“The year 2024 has been remarkably productive in terms of publications, both in books and articles. Selecting the winners was no easy task. We would like to take this opportunity to highlight the transnational and transcultural aspects present in the winning book, as well as in some of the articles submitted for the competition.

As jurors of the SRN Awards, we celebrate the diverse backgrounds of the authors, the variety of topics, and the range of perspectives addressed. After thoroughly reading and evaluating all submissions, we reached a unanimous decision to grant the following awards”

The winning edited book by Rosamund Davies, Paolo Russo and Claus Tieber’s Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies is described in this way:

‘Bringing together 44 authors, the Palgrave Handbook is, as its preface announces, a comprehensive collection of research that demonstartes the state of the art in a certain field. The editors have successfully compiled a wide range of perspectives and approaches, showcasing the breadth and strength of contemporary screenwriting studies. While the chapters inevitably vary in detail and depth, the book as a whole is undoubtedly a milestone in advancing screenwriting studies research.’

The best journal article went to Gabriel Paletz’s article in Writing sound in the screenplay: traditions and innovations, pp. 61–75. This article is described in this way:

‘This fascinating article challenges the traditional approach of sound being “minimally written or written out” of screenplays, advocating instead for the intentional writing of sound into scripts. This approach could greatly benefit students—one common issue in students of screenwriting is the poor use of sound, and this article offers valuable insights on how to rectify that. It is well-researched and provides practical examples for screenwriting teachers and writers on incorporating music into scripts.’

As well as judging these to be the best book / chapter, the judges wished to acknowledge Margaret McVeigh’s Screenwriting from the Inside Out: Think and Write like a Creative (2023), and James Deaville’s journal article, ‘Writing on screens: (Re-)mediating music and sound through captions’ (2023). These received honourable mentions from the judges.

 

Inaugural Screenwriting Teaching Innovation Awards 2024

The Judges of the Inaugural Screenwriting Teaching Awards, Rosamund Davies, Ian Macdonald and Anna Weinstein, are pleased to announce the winners for the 2024 Teaching Innovation Awards.

Armando Fumagalli, of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, in Milan, won our inaugural teaching innovation award for establishing the ‘Director of the Master in International Screenwriting and Production (MISP)’ course at his university.

Dee Hughes, at Bournemouth University, also won an award for applying ‘Team-based learning (TBL) to screenwriting instruction’.

The Awards were presented in person at the annual 15th International Conference of the Screenwriting Research Network in Olomouc in the Czechia on Friday 13th September.

Congratulations to all winners!

 

SRN Awards 2024

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The SRN AWARDS will celebrate the 5th edition at the 2024 Conference in the Czech Republic this September 2024.

We invite all members and colleagues to submit Nominations for the best publications of 2023/2024 by the new deadline of 15 July 2024 for articles published between 1 June 2023 & 31 May 2024.Both nominations and self-nominations are welcome. Winners will be announced at the 2024 SRN Conference in the Czech Republic.
The Awards this year will be again in two categories:
Best Monograph – for single-authored or co-authored volumes (any format)
Best Journal Article/Book Chapter – Both articles and chapters normally range around 6-8,000 words but the format may vary.
While no ratings of journals/publishers will be a factor in the evaluation of submissions, all publications should be scholarly, fully peer-reviewed work underpinned by substantial research specifically in the area of Screenwriting Studies. Submitted titles must have been published between 1 June 2022 & 31 May 2024.

Guidelines for the submission of nominations:
All submissions in both categories should be made directly to all the members of the Jury (see contact details below) by 15 July 2024. However, early submissions are most welcome and encouraged.
MONOGRAPHS – Nominees and self-nominees should send hard copies of their monographs directly to each Juror via regular mail/courier. Publishers are usually happy to supply complimentary evaluation/inspection copies: only where this is really not possible (including, for instance, volumes due out very close to the deadline), authors can send a PDF copy of the approved preprint manuscript (in this case via email) as a backup option.
ARTICLES/CHAPTERS – Individual journal articles (i.e. not the whole journal) or chapters (i.e. not the whole book) should be sent as PDF (as per preprint approved draft) directly to each of the Jurors via email.

All submissions will be evaluated independently by our Jury of distinguished academics:

Professor Carmen Sofia Brenes [email protected]

Leslie Kreiner Wilson [email protected]

Garrabost Jayalakshmi [email protected]

 

If you have any enquiries, please contact Rosanne Welch [email protected]

 

SRN Teaching Innovation Award – Inaugural Year 2024

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Screenwriting Teaching Innovation Award

 

New for 2024, the Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) is implementing a Screenwriting Teaching Innovation Award to recognize the achievements of an outstanding faculty scholar whose work demonstrates new and original approaches to supporting the teaching and learning development of screenwriters and scholars of screenwriting.

This may include (but is not restricted to) new teaching methods and new insights into learning around screenwriting, ways of linking screenwriting research with practice, ways of developing the writer’s individual ‘voice’ and their understanding of screenwriting as an artform, interventions into syllabus content and presentation, ways of engaging with industrial practice (such as improving the ‘fit’ between classroom work and production), or new ways of using screenwriting research to support teaching.

 

As a member of SRN, you may self-nominate for the Screenwriting Teaching Innovation Award, or you may nominate a colleague. Each candidate is responsible for collecting, collating, and preparing their application materials.

 

Please submit a nomination packet of no more than 15 pages by May 1, 2024 including the following materials:

 

  • Two-page summary statement describing an innovative assignment or teaching method including goals for the assignment or instructional technique, implementation in the classroom, student feedback and interaction with the assignment or teaching method, student success, and an explanation of reflective teaching and adjustments in response to student work and feedback.
  • Three-page CV highlighting accomplishments in teaching including screenwriting courses developed and taught, student mentoring, student successes, teaching workshops or lectures, institutional teaching awards, or published scholarship on the teaching and learning development of screenwriters and scholars of screenwriting.
  • Sample assignment or syllabus.
  • Two letters of support, including one from a faculty colleague and one from a former student.

 

Nomination packets are due May 1. The SRN Teaching Innovation Award Committee will select two awardees for 2024. Awardees will be notified will be notified July 15, and awards will be presented at the 2024 SRN conference.

Please direct questions to Teaching Innovation Award Committee members:

Dr Ian MacDonald [email protected]

Dr Anna Weinstein [email protected]

Dr Rosamund Davies  [email protected]

SRN Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award 2023

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Our inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to Screenwriting Research goes to Dr Tom Stempel, Professor Emeritus at Los Angeles City College, presented at the Annual General Meeting at the 15th Annual Conference held in Columbia, Missouri, USA. Presented on 22nd September, 2023.

SRN Awards 2023

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The SRN AWARDS will celebrate their 4th edition at the 2023 Conference in Missouri this September 2023.

We invite all members and colleagues to submit Nominations for the best publications of 2022/2023 by the new deadline of 15 July 2023 for articles published between 1 June 2022 & 31 May 2023.Both nominations and self-nominations are welcome. Winners will be announced at the 2023 SRN Conference in Missouri.
The Awards this year will be again in two categories:
Best Monograph – for single-authored or co-authored volumes (any format)
Best Journal Article/Book Chapter – Both articles and chapters normally range around 6-8,000 words but the format may vary.
While no ratings of journals/publishers will be a factor in the evaluation of submissions, all publications should be scholarly, fully peer-reviewed work underpinned by substantial research specifically in the area of Screenwriting Studies. Submitted titles must have been published between 1 June 2022 & 31 May 2023.

Guidelines for the submission of nominations:
All submissions in both categories should be made directly to all three members of the Jury (see contact details below) by 15 July 2023. However, early submissions are most welcome and encouraged.
MONOGRAPHS – Nominees and self-nominees should send hard copies of their monographs directly to each Juror via regular mail/courier. Publishers are usually happy to supply complimentary evaluation/inspection copies: only where this is really not possible (including, for instance, volumes due out very close to the deadline), authors can send a PDF copy of the approved preprint manuscript (in this case via email) as a backup option.
ARTICLES/CHAPTERS – Individual journal articles (i.e. not the whole journal) or chapters (i.e. not the whole book) should be sent as PDF (as per preprint approved draft) directly to each of the Jurors via email.

All submissions will be evaluated independently by our Jury of distinguished academics: Professor Emeritus Tom Stempel

[email protected]

Associate Professor Eva Novrup Redvall

[email protected]

Professor Carmen Sofia Brenes

[email protected]

 

If you have any enquiries, please contact Rosanne Welch

[email protected]

SRN Awards 2022

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Presented at the Vienna Conference on Friday 23rd September 2022

The SRN Awards apply to eligible publications between June 2021 and May 2022 in two categories: Best Published Monograph, and Best Published Article. This includes peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. The Executive Council has worked throughout the year to consolidate the process by liaising with the expert jury, Professor Emeritus Tom Stempel, Associate Professor Eva Novrup Redvall, and Professor Carmen Sofia Brenes.  The SRN 2022 Awards winners were announced at the Vienna Conference by jury chair, Eva Novrup Redvall.

The SRN award for Best Monograph went to s. Anthony Mullins for his book Beyond the Hero’s Journey

 

The SRN award for Best Published Article went to Alison Pierce for “The Hidden Work of Women in Commissioning and Development in British Television Drama.”.

The SRN Executive Council would like to thank our judges for their time and commitment in reading all the submissions to come to these conclusions. We also want to thank all SRN members who submitted their published works to the competition. It is always an achievement to complete and article or book and have it published.

And of course, we offer the warmest congratulations to our winners, Anthony Mullins and Alison Pierce, for their outstanding works. We know they will be valuable for years to come to scholars and practitioners alike.

SRN Awards 2021 – 2022 – Call for Nominations

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SRN AWARDS 2021 – 2022 – CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

 

The SRN AWARDS will celebrate their 3rd edition at the 2022 Conference at Vienna this September 2022.

We invite all members and colleagues to submit Nominations for the best publications of 2021/2022 by the deadline of 31 May 2022 for articles published between 1 June 2021 & 31 May 2022.

Both nominations and self-nominations are welcome.

The Awards this year will be again in two categories: 

 

Best Monograph – for single-authored or co-authored volumes (any format)

Best Journal Article/Book Chapter – Both articles and chapters normally range around 6-8,000 words but the format may vary.

 

While no ratings of journals/publishers will be a factor in the evaluation of submissions, all publications should be scholarly, fully peer-reviewed work underpinned by substantial research specifically in the area of Screenwriting Studies.

Submitted titles must have been published between 1 June 2021 & 31 May 2022.

All submissions will be evaluated independently by our Jury of distinguished academics: Professor Emeritus Tom Stempel, Associate Professor Eva Novrup Redvall and Professor Carmen Sofia Brenes.

Winners will be announced at the 2022 SRN Conference in Vienna.

 

Guidelines for the submission of nominations

All submissions in both categories should be made directly to all three members of the Jury (see contact details below) by 31 May 2022. However, early submissions are most welcome and encouraged.

MONOGRAPHS – Nominees and self-nominees should send hard copies of their monographs directly to each Juror via regular mail/courier. Publishers are usually happy to supply complimentary evaluation/inspection copies: only where this is really not possible (including, for instance, volumes due out very close to the deadline), authors can send a PDF copy of the approved preprint manuscript (in this case via email) as a backup option.

ARTICLES/CHAPTERS – Individual journal articles (i.e. not the whole journal) or chapters (i.e. not the whole book) should be sent as PDF (as per preprint approved draft) directly to the Jurors via email.

 

Contact details for all submissions:

Tom Stempel, 2711 Coolidge Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064, USA. Email: [email protected]

Eva Novrup Redvall Dept. of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Southern Campus, Karen Blixens Vej 8, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. Email: [email protected]

Carmen Sofia Brenes, School of Humanities and Communication, Universidad Finis Terrae, Av. Pedro de Valdivia 1509, Providencia, RM, Chile. Email: [email protected] 

 

If you have any enquiries, please contact Margaret McVeigh.