Barry Brennessel's Blog

The Simpsons: A Spoonful of Medicine Helps the Medicine Go Down was named the Grand Prize winner and The Simpsons: What a Revoltin’ Development was named a Silver Award winner in the American Movie Awards Screenplay Contest.

https://americanmovieawards.com/past-...

My screenplay Nagasaki is a Nominee in the Toronto International Film and Video Awards:

http://www.tifva.com/2014-tifva-nomin...

The Celestial, The Simpsons: A Spoonful of Medicine Helps the Medicine Go Down, and The Gifted, Episode 1: The Calling are all Finalists in the Las Vegas Screenplay Contest:

https://lasvegasscreenplaycontest.com...

Sideways Down the Sky and Wellspring are Finalists in the 2014 IndieFab Book of the Year Awards at Foreword Reviews:

https://indiefab.forewordreviews.com/...

Sideways Down the Sky is a Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction in the 27th annual Triangle Awards.

http://www.publishingtriangle.org/

The screenplay version of the The Celestial received Honorable Mention in the Canada International Film Festival/Write Brothers Screenplay Competition:

https://www.canadafilmfestival.com/2015

The screenplay version of The Celestial was named a Quarter Finalist in the Bluecat Screenplay Competition, Features category:

http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/blog...

The screenplay version of “Kill Them With Kindness” (from A Special Kind of Folk) was selected to the top ten percent in the Bluecat Screenplay Competition, Shorts category:

http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/blog...

The screenplay version of Reunion advanced to the Semi-Finals in the Marquee Lights Screenplay Competition:

https://www.marqueescreenplay.com/

The screenplay version of Nagasaki (from the linked story collections Reunion and Sideways Down the Sky) was named a Quarter Finalist in the Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition, and also nominated for the Culture & Heritage Award and the Diversity & Inclusion Award.

The screenplay version of Reunion was named a Quarter Finalist in the Marquee Lights Screenplay Competition!

https://www.marqueescreenplay.com/mar...

The screenplay version of The Celestial was a Finalist in the Great Gay Screenplay Contest, and won 1st Place in the Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition (Flickers).

The screenplay version of Reunion won 4th Place in the London Film Awards Screenplay Competition.

My Simpsons script "What a Revoltin' Development" won 3rd Place in the Scriptapalooza TV Competition.

Paradise at Main and Elm and A Special Kind of Folk are both Finalists in the 2013 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards.

https://botya.forewordreviews.com/fin...

https://botya.forewordreviews.com/fin...

The winners will be named during the American Library Association Annual Conference in Las Vegas on Friday, June 27.

My spec script for The Mary Tyler Moore Show was named a winner in the October 2013 Wildsound Screenplay Competition!

http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/winn...


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