Books – Screenwriting Research Network

The SRN AWARDS will celebrate the 6th edition at the 2025 Conference in Adelaide, Australia this September 2025.

We invite all members and colleagues to submit Nominations for the best publications of 2024/2025 by the deadline of 15 June 2025 for articles published between 1 June 2024 & 31 May 2025.Both nominations and self-nominations are welcome. Winners will be announced at the 2025 SRN Conference in Adelaide, Australia.

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.

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 June 2025. 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 csbrenes@gmail.com

Leslie Kreiner Wilson leslie.kreiner@pepperdine.edu

Garrabost Jayalakshmi g.jayalakshmi@napier.ac.uk

If you have any enquiries, please contact Rosanne Welch Rwelch@stephens.edu

Ian Macdonald, co-founder of the SRN, has published a new book: ‘Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea‘, Palgrave Macmillan.

This is a new and original investigation into how screenwriting works, applying a range of film, media and creative theories to the study and research of screenwriting. It includes three new, original case studies: story development in the successful ITV soap Emmerdale, the silent film work of Hitchcock’s first major screenwriter Eliot Stannard (‘exemplary scholarship’ says Emeritus Professor Charles Barr), and on David Lean’s last, unfinished ‘magnum opus’, Nostromo.
SRN members can get 20% off this publication. Quote ‘XP356ED’ when ordering the book directly from Palgrave Macmillan to claim your discount.

US members should order it here: http://us.macmillan.com/screenwritingpoeticsandthescreenidea/IanWMacdonald

And UK members here: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=570398

This is the first title in the new Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting book series. Further titles will be published in December, and in the New Year. More information on these to follow.

SRN Book/Publication Awards 2025

New Book – ‘Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea’