We are so excited to announce the 2021 BlueCat Quarterfinalists! Congratulations Writers!
Features
There are 341 quarterfinalists out of a total of 4388.
| 1888 | by | Daniel Kelly |
| 10 Rounds Deep | by | Parker Bohner |
| 86’d | by | Allen Schubert |
| A Brother and His Gun | by | Gabriel D. Gilleland |
| A Family Reunion | by | Xavier Burgin |
| A Random Act of Kindness | by | Jason N. Hefter |
| A Sensible Lunatic | by | Lyle Deixler |
| A Wray of Light | by | Preston Harrison Ahearn |
| Ability | by | Benedict Cohen |
| Allegiance | by | Mat Nguyen |
| Alone Tonight | by | Ralph Waine Hoy |
| Amy and Zoe Take the Long Way | by | Rachel M. Weatherly |
| An East Meets West Ghost Story | by | Arran Crawley |
| An Invincible Summer | by | Goldie Jones |
| An Irish Errand | by | Ari Frankel |
| An Open Table | by | James James |
| Anesthesia | by | Matt Fuller |
| Anything Can Happen in the Woods | by | Scott Morse |
| Apocalyptical | by | Reynaldo Garza |
| Arseholes | by | Julia Hartley |
| Astray | by | Faizan Kareem |
| At the Corner of Hitler and Goering | by | Joseph Kovler |
| Aureum | by | Steffon Thomas |
| Bearspray and Cake | by | Rachel Werbel |
| Before She Cheats | by | Ryan Underwood |
| Behind the Curtain | by | Charlotte Maher Levy |
| Better Half | by | Raisa Machado |
| Beware, Wolf! | by | David Liberman, Jacky Revah & Itzik Revah |
| Big Girl | by | Cyn Harris |
| Blackbird | by | Britni Hatcher & Steven Staats |
| Blanca | by | Carlos Grana |
| Blood and Steel | by | J.H. Barnett, Jr. |
| Blue | by | Andres Valentin Lopez |
| Border Skirmish | by | James Mulcahy |
| Borderline | by | Andres E. Mendez |
| Brain Storm | by | James Mulcahy |
| Break Away | by | Romeo Ciolfi |
| Briarwood | by | Sierra Sands |
| Brilliant Miami Sunset | by | Michelle Cutler |
| Bruh | by | Brett Stanning & Edwin Zigterman |
| Burner: A Killing in Palm Springs | by | Bob Canning |
| Cadenza | by | Mark Nahuysen |
| Cairo | by | Ahmed Siddiqui |
| Camera Ready | by | Stephen Montagne |
| Capital Punishment | by | Alina Norman & Bart Norman |
| Captive Wild Things | by | Wendy Young |
| Carry Me Back | by | Claire Fortier |
| Cascade | by | Nathan Fleetwood |
| Celebrity Gladiators | by | Jennifer Shumway |
| Cents | by | Sam Davis |
| Chain Free | by | N. A. Williams |
| Chariot | by | William Howard Norris |
| Childish Things… | by | Trevor Munson |
| Cling Film | by | Alice Burden |
| Cloud to Ground | by | Ellen B Lent |
| Clubball | by | Todd Friedman |
| Counter Earth | by | Ryan Vaughn |
| Coverage | by | Maureen Foster |
| Cracked | by | Kristine Namkung |
| Crash Car: The Rise and Fall of Decadent Dmitri and the USSR | by | Greg Roque |
| Cressie and the Search for Greater Good | by | Fred Cooper |
| Crimelords | by | John Mahony |
| Dancing Through Cracks in Time | by | Alisa Khodos |
| Dead Woman Waltzing | by | Janine Horsburgh |
| Dead, But Whatever | by | Boris Coll |
| Deadmall | by | Patrick Crozier |
| Dedicated to Morris Burke | by | Jeremy Leder |
| Del & Phyllis | by | JP Bernbach |
| Despondence | by | Adrion Trujillo |
| Dimension X | by | Michael S Price |
| Divine Blood | by | Aly Miller |
| Doc Band-Aid | by | Bob Bland |
| Dropping Dimes | by | Samuel P. Strantz |
| Eddie’s Complex | by | Anna Israel |
| Eggs | by | Audrey Estrada |
| Emergency Contact | by | Erin Brown Thomas & Kelly Vrooman |
| Endurance | by | Chaz Harris |
| Entanglement | by | Tabata Burdell |
| Evacuation | by | Aubrey Reynolds |
| Everything Is Fine | by | Evelyn Anna Danciger |
| Eye on the Sparrow | by | Marcus Bleecker |
| False Flag | by | Edward Coffey |
| Family Gathering | by | Darko Mitrevski |
| Fast Car | by | Winsphere Jones |
| FDNY | by | Michael Burke |
| Ferocious | by | Dimitri Devyatkin |
| Finishing Wally | by | The Gideon Brothers |
| Five Fathers | by | Aron Flasher |
| Fleet | by | Ari Brown |
| Flesh and Blood | by | Merlin Camozzi |
| Flight Plans | by | Keith Rivers |
| Florence and the Nightly Gale | by | Annaliese Ciel Walker |
| Forced | by | Erin R Dooley |
| Fowl Road | by | Matt Flynn |
| Fox Spirits | by | Bruce X Li |
| Frankie And The Delinquent | by | Hannah Hendy |
| Fresh Meat | by | Lu Asfaha |
| Fringe | by | Mary McCormick |
| From the Whorehouse to the Whitehouse: The Scandalous, True Life Story of Victoria Woodhull | by | Julie Austin & Adrian Colesberry |
| Gathering Crowes | by | Hus Miller |
| George Plus Dolly 3374 | by | Charles William Maclay |
| GeriOsity | by | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Get A Life | by | Irina Prokhorenko & Rachel Greenberg |
| Get Busted | by | Marc A. Lapadula |
| Ghosted | by | Matt Gallagher |
| Giant Void | by | Michael Reisinger |
| Gichi Manidoo | by | Charles J. Musser |
| Girl In Snow: A Nightmare | by | Mike Peña |
| Good Bad People | by | Joshua Amar |
| Grandeur | by | Shaun Perry & Jay Perry |
| Greatest Love of All | by | Aaron Cini |
| Haitiana | by | Rossely A. Harman |
| Handsome Devil | by | Andrew Albert |
| Hard Cider | by | Tyrone Breaux Jr. & William Perdue |
| Haunt | by | Tom Goodger |
| Heart-Shaped Box | by | David Comfort |
| Heir Apparent | by | Yellowlees Douglas |
| Homegrown | by | Abhishek Raghavan & Chad Hermann |
| Hothouse Flower | by | Heidi Hayward |
| How Far We’ve Come | by | Nkosi Roma |
| Human Terrain | by | Henry Hughes |
| If It Rains | by | Bruce Dundore |
| Immaculate Catastrophe | by | Heath Miller |
| Impressionable Minds | by | Mark DiPaola |
| Indian Summer | by | Madhu Powar Garg |
| Into the Rust | by | Oliver Silver |
| It Was Written | by | Valeria Vallejos |
| Jess | by | Sean Jourdan |
| John Horse and Wild Cat | by | Quinn Saunders & Laurel Williams |
| Joseph Campbell’s Penis | by | Griffin Reister Johnson |
| Jubilee | by | Mason Thomas Freeman |
| Kill Protocol Omega | by | Paul Furr |
| Kip McGregor | by | Heath Miller |
| Kitaab | by | M. Akram Shibly |
| Kiwakw: Winter’s Witch | by | Nora Jacobson, Harry Gray & Jesse Bowman Bruchac |
| Legacy Faire | by | Dale Davida Lippman |
| Limerence | by | Sonja O’Hara |
| Lineage | by | Maria Soscia |
| Let’s Go Crazy | by | Cory Krueckeberg |
| Lookout Mountain | by | Jason Gordon |
| Lost Cause | by | Brent Lambert-Zaffino |
| Lost in LiquorLand | by | Joseph Lee |
| Love is Love | by | Jeff Kerr |
| Love Thy Neighbor | by | Philip Hall & Erin Fredman |
| Luca | by | Salla Alfieri |
| Lucy Prince Walks to Norwich | by | Nora Jacobson & Richard Weseley |
| Lupine | by | Stephen A. White |
| Maroon | by | Glenn Stanton |
| Meetings With Marty | by | Gregor Nicholas |
| Metastasis | by | Alessandro Guarino |
| MiDog | by | Laura Antonelli |
| Minor Miracle | by | David Henderson |
| Moirai | by | Alessandro Guarino |
| Molly | by | Daisy Aitkens |
| Moonstruck | by | Tyrel Pinnegar |
| More Than One Idiot Brother | by | Pearse Lehane |
| Morning Star | by | Jason Fink & Brandon Fink |
| Morry | by | Shelly Lipkin & Suzanne Fagan |
| Mourning Dove Cafe | by | Margaret Newlin Rice |
| MRS Degree | by | Cat Youell & Brad Crowe |
| Murder in Grace Falls | by | Ryan Northrup |
| My Own Flesh and Blood | by | Jacob Harpel |
| My Sister and I | by | Sean-Paul Thomas Cairns |
| Need to Know | by | Simon Craven |
| Neighborhood Watch | by | Matthew Rocca |
| Night Beat | by | Sean Arenas |
| No Time to Hide | by | Richard Krzemien |
| Not Alone | by | Terrence Ross |
| Nummo | by | Emmanuel Yoka |
| O Horizon | by | Madeleine Sackler |
| On the Run | by | Cath Gulick |
| Once A Colonel | by | Heather P. Shreve |
| One Night In The Country | by | Larry Hankin |
| Open House | by | Sean Jourdan |
| Optimism | by | Jennifer Harrison |
| Original Tru | by | Adam Huss |
| Our Game | by | Justin Servino |
| Ourselves Alone | by | Roland Greedy |
| Out Of Left Field | by | Zachary Stein & Stephen Marino |
| Out Of Nowhere | by | Marc Lapadula |
| Paint Made Flesh | by | Cady McClain & Howard Meyer |
| Paint Me a Painting | by | Corey Emanuel Jr. |
| Paradise | by | Jordan Carlson & Ryan Knapper |
| Powder Kids | by | Randy Zuniga |
| Power Trip | by | Jim Patton & Dwayne McKenzie |
| Prince of Lavendale Street | by | Bev Chukwu |
| Private | by | Brad Bong |
| Prove Up | by | Kathleen Williams-Foshee & Desa Larkin-Boutte |
| Provocation | by | Brett Stanning & Michael Kitson |
| Pulse | by | Pascal Mercay |
| Purity Sterling | by | Robert M Gallagher |
| Purple Heart | by | Steve McLean |
| Raptus | by | Bennet De Brabandere |
| Raven | by | Bill Hanan |
| Red Herrings and Pink Flamingos | by | J B Goerke |
| Red In Tooth And Claw | by | Brennig J Hayden |
| Red Ridin’ in the Hood | by | Roger Hart |
| Reign | by | Gabrielle Wendelin |
| Revolution | by | Charlotte Keneipp |
| Rifle | by | Franka Potente |
| Rise Up Little Girl | by | Matthew Avant |
| Rita RPM | by | Janet J. Lawler |
| Rivers of Gold and Tears | by | Steven S Hoffman |
| Rocket Girl | by | Kevin Noonan |
| Role Initiative: The Bard of Balmoral | by | Daniel John Harris |
| Ross Commons | by | Mike Gallagher & Holly Martinez |
| Ruby | by | Claudia Johnson & Matt Stevens |
| Run Free | by | Jessica Johnston |
| Sabertooth | by | Joslyn Jensen |
| Sanctification | by | Mendel Weintraub |
| Santa Inc. | by | Thomas L. Carmody |
| Santiago’s Prayer | by | Ed Johnson |
| Scarred Hearts | by | Andrew Akler & Niki Rihal |
| Scout’s Honor | by | Cynthia Mersten |
| Security | by | Isaac Meyer Levy |
| Seed of Knowledge | by | Eleonora Mignoli |
| Separation | by | Anna Bierhaus |
| September Sky | by | Vanita Shastry |
| Seven Slides | by | Jennifer Healy Gloeb |
| SGT Vasquez’s Playlist © | by | Yerania Del Orbe |
| Shotgun Ashes | by | Krysten Resnick |
| Show Me Your Teeth | by | Scott Liapis |
| Silence in Berlin | by | Matthew Wolff |
| Simple Kind Of Man | by | Ehren Parks |
| Sing Along With The World Stops Time | by | Leah Bronwyn Huss |
| Slipping Away | by | Craig Clyde |
| Slush | by | Michael Cherkezian & Salim Khanachet |
| Smoke Eater | by | Aidan B West |
| Snarl | by | Mark C. Spera |
| Sojourn | by | Christopher James Murray |
| Sonja | by | Oliver Clarke |
| Sons of the Soil | by | Lawrence Glasner |
| Soul Samurai | by | Dennis James Clarke |
| Southie Won’t Go | by | Jared Goodman |
| Space Scraper the Motion Picture | by | Suzy Schmidt & Kyler Wilmoth |
| Speed Reading Through The Garden State | by | Neal Mayer |
| Star-Crossed Potpourri | by | Richard Dane Scott |
| Stayin’ Alive | by | Sunny Mohajer |
| Strays | by | Robert Wooldridge |
| Sugar under the mat | by | Girish Kohli |
| Super Turbo Overdrive | by | Peter Hsieh |
| Suspended Belief | by | Catherine Craig |
| Sweeper | by | Nick Drago |
| Swine Heart | by | Theresa Anne Carey & Bruce Stephen Brochtrup |
| Take Off | by | Rachel M Weatherly |
| Team Emma | by | Andrea Zastrow |
| Tehrangeles | by | Lida Nasseri |
| Thank You My Dear | by | Paul Kelso |
| The Apiarist | by | James Liu |
| The Big Mahoff | by | Russell Brand |
| The Black Rose | by | James Mitchell |
| The Book of Men (TBOM) | by | Alex Coelho |
| The Carrier | by | Todd Restler |
| The Corner of Willow and Orange | by | Jason Murgatroyd |
| The Country Club Crashers | by | Zachary Stein & Stephen Marino |
| The Coward of Hickory County | by | Julia Maddox |
| The Cuyama Rodeo | by | Kathaleen Brewer |
| The Divided States of America | by | Vandon Gibbs |
| The Falling Chamber | by | Raymond McDonald |
| The Fat Trap | by | Kasi Brown & Brandon Walter |
| The Ghost | by | Adam Lucas |
| The Girl Who Sings In The Dreams | by | Huu-Tuan Nguyen & Vo Thach Thao |
| The Golem of Cotopaxi | by | Arnon Z. Shorr |
| The Grand Strand | by | Luke Lowder |
| The Great Haul | by | Max Kopelowicz |
| The Great Wall | by | Ellen B. Lent |
| The Half-ling | by | Noel Hoffmann |
| The Hitchhiker | by | Dan Ast |
| The Holdout | by | Nick Padmore |
| The Honeypot | by | Rodney Lawrence Bernardo |
| The Hotel Barbers | by | Daniel Woburn |
| The Image Makers | by | Marina Shron |
| The Inheritance | by | Nicholas Moreno |
| The Interdiction | by | Paul Frank |
| The King of Clovers | by | John Gallagher, Jr. |
| The Kiss-Off | by | Gio Forlenza |
| The Last Captain | by | Inigo Puente Bustindui |
| The Lies We Tell Ourselves | by | Courtney Froemming |
| The Life of Cockroaches | by | Gillian Croft |
| The Lone Wolf | by | Jannik Ohlendieck |
| The Medicine Line | by | Bill Keenan |
| The Menlo House | by | Ryan Vaughn |
| The Muse | by | Eve Rouverol |
| The Newlyweds | by | John Lawniczak |
| The Outcasts | by | Alkyoni Valsari |
| The People’s World of Wonders presents – JYOTI | by | Jared Goodman |
| The Present | by | Candace Kearns |
| The Punchline | by | Sara Murray |
| The Race That Stops a Nation | by | Nick Pollack |
| The Ranch | by | Geoff Ryan |
| The Resident | by | Mike Gerbino & Zahra Zubaidi |
| The Resurrection of Josie Layne | by | Alex Welch |
| The Ringmaster | by | Maya Albanese |
| The Road Out of Afghanistan | by | Artur Benson |
| The Rommel Gambit | by | John Doble |
| The Sea Captain’s Cottage | by | Stephanie M Couture |
| The Secret of Isabel | by | Regiane Margonar Reis |
| The Sixgun Saint | by | Warren Lane |
| The Sledge Patrol | by | Reed Arnold |
| The Strange Affair of the Elevator | by | Katy Regnery |
| The Synaesthete | by | Annie Thorpe |
| The Trophy Wife | by | Luke Carr |
| The Tunnel | by | Nick Taylor Buck |
| The Understudy | by | David Hoffman |
| The Unwoman | by | Tyler Rigby |
| The Utopians | by | Scott Winfield Sublett |
| The Waiting Room | by | Joel Stern |
| The Wax Doll | by | Stefan Haderer |
| The Way Home | by | Jason Grimste |
| The Way Out | by | Matt Dority & Robert Leader |
| The Wedding | by | Mashael Alqahtani |
| These Sad Things | by | Paul Hayward |
| Thick as Thieves | by | Brandon Silberstein |
| Third Man | by | Michael Ouzas |
| Tongues of Men and Angels | by | Elizabeth Hayes |
| Too Dangerous To Live | by | Christine Watson |
| Torch Song | by | Josh MacNeal |
| Touch | by | Cara Geyser |
| Treasure | by | Kenneth Irby & Stephanie Santos |
| Trojan | by | Brian Connolly |
| True Patriots | by | Valerie M Bischoff |
| Two | by | Rade Mileusnic |
| Uncle Ola | by | Sean Aydon |
| Under the Mountain | by | Sebastian Guzman |
| Undercurrent | by | Debby Huvaere |
| Venerated Vultures | by | Ted Hall |
| Visceral Fatherland | by | LeLe Park |
| Waimi | by | Matt Holcomb |
| Watching the Sea | by | Katie Ennis |
| We Flew When the Birds Walked | by | Daniel Leventhal |
| Westminster | by | Anthony Gilmore & Ryan Seale |
| When the Devil’s due | by | Nathan John Barnes |
| When the Music’s Over | by | Terrence Ross |
| Where the Oceans Meet | by | Pacifico Geronimo III |
| Widow’s Creek | by | Buster La Haye & Eugene La Haye |
| Will to Power | by | Chris Mul & Michael Mul |
| Yankee Goes Home | by | Shohreh Amirzafari Harris |
| Yiddish For Murder | by | Lee Stein |
| You Should Have Read My Screenplay | by | Allie Jennings |
Pilots
There are 189 quarterfinalists out of a total of 1964.
| 3/1 | by | Sierra Sands |
| 2 Falls Forward, 1 Step Back | by | Ada Lee Halofsky |
| A Guide to Good Ceasing | by | J. Eric Thompson |
| After The Earth Blows Up | by | Arik Cohen |
| Alice, Everywhere | by | Minda Wei |
| All the Sons of Bitches in the World | by | Nathan Karimi |
| All Turned Out | by | Haley Bresnahan |
| American Way | by | Jake Thomas |
| Angels of Avalon | by | Karl van Allen |
| Annalise, the Cursed | by | Jeff Zuschlag |
| Armageddon: 2043 | by | Mark Gambino |
| Ashtabula | by | Brad Small & Mark Paone |
| B Team | by | Michael Bradley Cohen |
| Ballsy | by | Patricia Nagy |
| Becoming Angel | by | Rich Tayloe |
| Between Here and There | by | C.J. Liao |
| Big Shoulders | by | Jennifer W. Wright |
| Black Ice | by | Pallas-Amenah Morgan |
| Blind Love | by | Tsu Shan Chambers |
| Bombay Boy | by | Sid Mehra |
| Brimley’s Best | by | F. Clark MacArthur |
| Cam Soda | by | Emily Abbott |
| Cardinal Spirits | by | Hyun Chessman |
| Carnies | by | Michael Joshua Knox |
| Cascadia | by | Katie Waldron |
| Choppa City | by | Cain Angelle |
| Clout | by | Rishabh Bhavnani |
| Clown Town | by | Laura Skopec |
| Club Hirado | by | Karly Seeley |
| Concert Pitch | by | Steven Holleran & Mary Holleran |
| Cooze | by | Wendy Jean Wilkins |
| Crackpots | by | Kate Pinato |
| Crocodile | by | Christopher Holt |
| Crowded | by | Lexi Foultz |
| Cwtch | by | Brennig J Hayden |
| Da Vinci Rising | by | Alessandro Chille |
| Dai Lo | by | Hymnson Chan |
| Daisyworld | by | Savannah G Pearson |
| Dead Air | by | Sam Griswold |
| Dead Serious | by | Jaimie Bouwkamp |
| Dead-End Job | by | Alison Lynch |
| Dig | by | Ricardo C. Lira |
| Dishonorable Discharge | by | Patrick Mulderrig |
| Dollar Princess | by | Emily-Anne Mikos |
| East Parkway | by | Jamie Nieto |
| End Times | by | Matt DeMotts |
| ENUMCLAW | by | Joseph Cefalu |
| False Prophet | by | Kaitlyn DeShon |
| Dimebag | by | Jimmy Prosser & Rohan Shankar |
| Freestyle | by | Kio Shijiki |
| Fugue State | by | Katie Lymn |
| Gated | by | Molly Skubak |
| Genesis | by | Vince Milazzo |
| Gilding The Lily | by | Lauren Anthony |
| Grace in the Clutch | by | Addie Talbott |
| Hammiral | by | Connor Paolo |
| Hardcore ’86 | by | Chris Pittas |
| Hawthorne – Betrayals | by | Scott Bastedo |
| Hazy | by | Han Tang |
| Hearth | by | Dalton Short |
| Helen | by | Tim O’Leary |
| Hellwath | by | Alastair Collinson |
| Her Majesty’s Spymistress | by | Marcus Goodwin |
| High Church | by | David Gray |
| Hit-Mum | by | James Spillman & Monica Spill |
| Hornswagglers | by | Nicole Rodriguez |
| Hound | by | W. Jones |
| Hounds | by | Jeremy Manning |
| Hunting Justice | by | Jennifer Phillips |
| I am Lucki | by | Leslie A. Witter |
| I Am That Man | by | Christopher De Paola |
| If I Can’t Dance to It, It’s Not My Revolution | by | Sara Cooper |
| Illegible | by | Josh Makinda |
| In the Weeds | by | Diane Carley |
| Infidelle | by | Anna Khaja |
| Into the Red Centre | by | Adrian Goodman |
| Jack Rabbit | by | Tex Gresham |
| Jaded | by | pp Hsiung |
| Jersey | by | David Schlow |
| Jessie’s Pharm | by | Christine West |
| Kana | by | Sam Sharpless |
| Knight Errant | by | Sabina Sattar |
| Less Actives | by | Adam E Broud |
| Letter From Takai | by | Matthew Mikulich |
| Librarians of the Jules Verne | by | Lincoln L Hayes |
| Lilith | by | Gregory Bell |
| Lincoln File | by | Josh Price |
| Live Aid | by | Michael Lwin |
| Lotus Flowers | by | Hilda Afrakoma |
| Love, LTD. | by | Ada Lee Halofsky |
| Madame Pooch | by | Fia Perera |
| Magic Hour | by | Arman Hovsepian |
| Matchmaker | by | Taylor Allison & Kylie Segert |
| Medicine Woman | by | Hilary Van Hoose |
| Meltzone | by | Tegan McLeod |
| Mental | by | Amy Julia Haeussler |
| Middle Age | by | Myles Hewette |
| Milton & Sons | by | Amy Baek & Joshua Gimenez |
| Minitaur | by | Allan Chaykin |
| Minority Party | by | Alexandria Churchwell |
| Mirella | by | G.S. Fields |
| Mister Hollywood | by | Jeremy Dozier |
| Mystik | by | Craig Fleming & Chris Webster |
| Not a Cult | by | Molly Skubak |
| Not Yet | by | Marieve Herington & Jeffrey Jones |
| NZR | by | Leon Masters |
| O.L.D. (Old Lady Dicks) | by | Karen T. Hartline |
| Oddjobbers | by | Jake Segelbaum |
| Off The Board | by | Neil Garguilo |
| Oleandrin | by | Nick Davis |
| Pangea | by | Thomas Smith |
| Paranormal Press | by | Arman Hovsepian |
| Pearland | by | James Shippy |
| People On Ice | by | Stephen Brower |
| Phoenix Rising | by | Ryan Paige |
| Popular Faith | by | Mark Skeele Wilson |
| Poseidon | by | William Jeffery |
| Project Nova | by | Milan Sanghani |
| Project TTC | by | Caitlin Benton |
| Pros and Cons | by | Andrea Lawson |
| Proud | by | Matthew Allen |
| Puppets | by | Sarah Bockian |
| Queerdos | by | Megan Foley |
| Ravens | by | Frances Flannery |
| Reivers | by | Will Murtagh |
| RMS Windel | by | Sierra Sands |
| Rotters | by | Jack Buckley |
| Rough Stock | by | Seppe Van Beneden |
| Santa Muerte | by | Douglas Stark |
| Scotus | by | Alan Jenkins |
| Secret Putin | by | Mackenzie Horras |
| Seeking Refuge | by | Ligia Maria Storrs Rojas & Justin Storrs |
| Selfish | by | Jennie Wolfgram |
| Sexual Healing | by | Jennifer Medvin |
| Shining Starla | by | Stephen Webb |
| Show Me Show | by | Mike Glazer & Mary Jane Gibson |
| Sick In The Head | by | Jaimie Bouwkamp |
| Slip Jig | by | Megan Meadows |
| Smoke Without Fire | by | Kelly Holliday |
| Special Toys | by | Benjamin Lewis |
| Spitfire | by | Bridget Visser |
| Starr X | by | Hugh O. Gorman |
| Stroke of Genius | by | Alexander Fichera & Luke Carlsen |
| Sundown Aisle | by | Amelia Bane & Kelsey McLaughlin |
| Sutton’s Case | by | João Leitão |
| Tales of the Demon: Night Terrors | by | Caleb King |
| Terra Vita | by | Alex Blumberg |
| That’s The Spirit | by | Kelly McInerney |
| The “ni hao” English Academy | by | Hedi Mclaughlin |
| The Art of Selling Yourself | by | Gavin Cutter |
| The Banks | by | Arthur Young |
| The Blue Line | by | Tai French |
| The Door | by | Cameron Wynn Blackwell |
| The Drowning Of Ghosts | by | Noni Salma |
| The Exhibit | by | Russell Putenney |
| The Farm | by | Marisa Schley |
| The Hat | by | Thomas James Linton |
| The Hive | by | Kristine Scruggs |
| The Jobber | by | Alie Turfe |
| The Knight’s Phoenix | by | Joseph Mwamba |
| The Knowledge | by | Matthew Feitshans |
| The Living Dead | by | Ed Connole |
| The Molly Maguires | by | Colin Ryan |
| The Moss on the Stone | by | Corey Holmes |
| The Nighthawks | by | Christopher Chambers |
| The Purity Ring | by | Nathan Floody |
| The Return | by | Hannah Richards |
| The Rez | by | Danielle Stratton |
| The Sand Creek Massacre | by | Timothy Weckesser |
| The Sheriff of Sturgill | by | Monis Rose |
| The Songstress | by | Kuros Charney |
| The Underdogs | by | Esme von Hoffman |
| They Listen | by | Debora Bottino |
| To The Depths | by | Benjamin Fraser |
| Tokens | by | Zoe Johnson |
| Toxic Shock | by | Scout Comm |
| Triptych | by | Sharbari Zohra Ahmed & Abigail Sands |
| Truck | by | Dan Baron |
| Under Heaven | by | Ben Bigelow |
| Unfinished | by | Eric Giancola & Tricia Olds |
| Untitled Gay Hitman Project | by | James Tison & Gus Constantellis |
| Variety | by | Joshua Collins & Matthew Morris |
| Virgins | by | Sophie Hessekiel |
| Virus, Inc. | by | Kelly Woodson |
| We The People: The Labyrinth | by | Esme von Hoffman |
| Where Do Hedonists Go Now | by | Lisa McAllister |
| Willum | by | Shahana Lashlee |
| Zion | by | Nisa Neza & Taja Sparks |
| ZoZi | by | Jordana I Frankel |
Shorts
There are 120 quarterfinalists out of a total of 1169.
| … | by | Rafael Pires Basanez |
| A Yemeni | by | Alyssa Amer |
| Act of Contrition | by | Stephanie Long |
| Addie and the Lightning Bugs | by | Alexander Jeffery & Paul Petersen |
| Affliction | by | Laura Fielder |
| Air Kiss | by | Gio Forlenza |
| Aisle 6 | by | Christopher Michael Mapp |
| An Inner Truth | by | Temistocles Diaz |
| Any Given Night | by | Ann Nelson |
| Arctic Lodge | by | Joseph Southworth |
| Argie Berman | by | Suzy Stein & Fernando Perez |
| Aurora | by | Tim Debruler |
| Belated | by | Leah Chen Baker |
| Between Rooms | by | Asher Jelinsky |
| Blind Bird | by | Fred O. Dery |
| Bumps | by | Riley Hamilton |
| Burn. | by | Amanda Scott |
| Celestus | by | Carl Huebner |
| Chilaquiles | by | Rocky Nguyen |
| Come Closer | by | Pierre Langenegger |
| Confidence | by | Marshall Logan Gibbs |
| Copycat | by | Victor Kammeijer |
| Cravings | by | David Mullin |
| Dancer at the Corps | by | Anna Thornton & L.A. Wolfman |
| Decisions, Decisions | by | Sonibel Rae |
| Dev | by | Deven Kolluri |
| Diamonds | by | Peter Andrews |
| Dime Store Cowboy | by | Barry Alan Levine |
| Dogfall | by | Nifemi Madarikan |
| Downfall | by | Veronica Ljungdahl |
| Dumplings | by | Wren Lee |
| Fragmented | by | Jiming Sun Lindal |
| Francis Bacon | by | Darcy Cagen |
| Fraud | by | Chris Conway |
| Fresh | by | Sancheev Ravichandran |
| Goodbye Esfahan | by | Natasha Forouzannia |
| Green Horn Planet | by | Dimitris Sokolakis |
| Gretchen | by | Joe Barajas |
| Grounded | by | Kath Callow |
| Growing Chains | by | Harlan Banks |
| Gymtimidation | by | Judith Casanova |
| Hair Days | by | Noam Argov |
| Heavy | by | Nuki Rhodes |
| Honey | by | Dane Barun |
| Hyphenated-Americans | by | Fareid El Gafy |
| In Freedom | by | Jorge Sistos Moreno |
| Innocent | by | Ben Ashelford |
| It’s Okay To Not Be Okay | by | Tannaz Keshavarz |
| Just Say Yes | by | Rachel Wagner |
| Learning To Smile | by | J. Jean |
| Like A Prayer | by | Paige Chung, Anders Finholt, & Liam Tait |
| Liquid and Dust | by | Michael Fairbrass |
| Little Orange Flags | by | Julianna Gelinas Bonifacio |
| Lone Star | by | Eli Lutsky |
| Lover Boy | by | Jeremy Bradford |
| Lyrical | by | Carter Stewart |
| Man of War | by | Sam Behrend |
| Mind Reader | by | Kimo Karp |
| New Moon 5280 | by | Dean Harakas |
| New to This | by | William Opperman |
| Night Job | by | Lauren Ernest |
| Ouroboros | by | Max Henry |
| Palingenesis | by | J. Zorn & Chayenne Lugo |
| Pay Attention | by | Sam Golland |
| Pickman’s Model | by | Ryan D. Coulton & H.P. Lovecraft |
| Piss | by | Paul Coleman |
| Price | by | Dustin Wiggins |
| Prima | by | Kimisha Renee Davis |
| Puppets | by | Rami Obeid |
| Quandary | by | Josue Berganza |
| Rachel Cho Goes to War | by | Michele Hogan |
| Right of Way | by | Jeremy Bradford |
| Rotten Meat | by | Rebekah Strauss |
| Roulette | by | Mitchell Martin |
| Sacrifices We Make | by | Rachel Fink |
| Seat Stealer | by | Ruby Hutson-Ellenberg |
| Seymour and Joyce | by | Warrick Druian |
| Shoot Me If You Can | by | Sylvain Loubet, Nicolas Polixene, & Jean-Jérome Loubet |
| Sidewalks | by | Harley Foos |
| Sins of a Father | by | Joe Gibbons |
| Sir | by | Molly Gardner |
| So Good To See You! | by | Pharra Perry |
| Something Like That | by | AJ Maryn |
| Strange Weather | by | Kio Shijiki |
| That Wasn’t So Bad | by | Dani Gomez |
| The Art Thief | by | Brendan Pinches |
| The Ball | by | Luis Hindman |
| The Castle Must Have a Princess | by | Skyler Tarnas |
| The Chapel’s Roof | by | Amelie Leclerc |
| The Client | by | Daniel Sheiman & Aaron Sheiman |
| The Doctor | by | Justin Patricolo |
| The Drive Back | by | Justin Guidroz |
| The Electric Bill | by | Max Burt |
| The Fainted Heart | by | Quinn Armstrong |
| The Ferryman of the Pali | by | Mike Gallagher |
| The Great Wingzini | by | Shaun Radecki |
| The Haunting | by | Ian Adelson & RJ Brown |
| The Machete | by | Rolando A Mendez |
| The Man in the Cabin | by | Robbie Lemieux |
| The Origin | by | Sunil Lama |
| The Other Half | by | Caitlin Burris |
| The Perfect Lamb | by | Omar Al Dakheel |
| The Prayer Of Constance Sorrow | by | Kat Foster |
| The Rug | by | Joshua Thornton-Alaln |
| The Stream | by | Kurtis Ratliff & Justin Martinez |
| The Thief and The Alchemist | by | Giacomo Tazzini |
| The Vision | by | Joseph Thomas |
| The Wall | by | Gary Gibich |
| There Used to be Sirens | by | Steve Hunt |
| Think Piece | by | Sam Barnett |
| Trying to Live | by | Marcela Onyango |
| Veneer | by | Scott Peters |
| Vivifica | by | Clara Deák-Leone |
| Wahala | by | Sunny King |
| Waiting for Schrödinger | by | Kevin M. Hanna |
| Walter and the 20-Million-Year-Old Spider | by | Shaun Radecki |
| We Were Never Right | by | Kevin D. Arms |
| Wereworm | by | Liam Hale |
| World’s #1 Grandson | by | Julian Stern |
| Wrecker | by | Aoife Bradshaw |
Our 2021 Semifinalists will be announced on April 13th, 2021.
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