Feature 2025 Winners

Quarter-Finalists

(Alphabetized by Title)

#19,665 by Aliki Sakallerou
#CustomerRage by Marty Howe
(I'll Never Find) Another You by Michael Elliott
A Few Red Flags by Derek Garrison
A Halloween Happening by Kyle Knopf
A Kiwi Kind of Christmas by Kate Powis
A Little Death by Joshua Lederman
Aimee by Anne Collins
Alpha Chase by Chuck Gordon
American Gulag by Michael Casey
Annie Hell by Ervin Anderson
Arcadia by Paul Sheridan
Arctic Fix by Randy Taylor
Ashes by Kevin Brodie
Authoress by Carolyn Kras
Autumn and Everything After by Virginia Austin
Baby by Brandy N Carie
Back to Brooklyn by Craig Weeden and Jimmy Palmiotti
Bad Romance by Chad Wellinger
Beneath the Flower Garden by Mike Baranik
Beyond Sacrifice by Alicia Dill
Beyond the Glass by Francis DiClemente
Billy Dutch Champagne for President by Regina Junior
Black Ice Below by Peter Fraser
Blood Moon by Brad Johnson
Blood Pact by Sean Mick
Blood Ties by Sabina Sattar
Bloodhound by Danny Katz
Bloody Mary by Kylie Boersma
Boys by Taylor Bartczak
Brides of ISIS by Scott Gordon Richards
Bubblegum Summers by Dan McCrory
Buffalo Creek by Vaughn Roste
Bullrush by Eliot Galan
Burden of Command by Shashank Upadhye
Burner: A Killing in Palm Springs by Bob Canning
Callers to Our World by Salvatore Bono
Canterbury Trails by Michael Brose
Carnage Candy by Paul Zecharia
Caught in the Rundown by Timothy Britto
Chasing Faberge by Margaret Price
City on the Edge by Stephen Yaffe and Barbara Vaccaro
Closure by Pete Comrie
Color of Homicide by Greg McIntosh
Contract Cookie Man by Vatisha King
Cowboy Anderson and the Montford Point Marines by Bill Wells
Coyotes by Demian Cuthbertson
Crime Spree by Louis Spirito
Cryowulf by Sam Roads
Darkwater Bay by Laura Hockridge
Darlins by Heather Foster
Daughter of Gonder by Arnon Shorr
Dead of State by Nathan Rulf
Dead Queue by Terrance Henry
Dead Winter Run by Jake Hart
Dead, Yet? by Jacqueline Fisher
Deepening the Divide by Jeff Rosenberg
Demons by Shiva Ramanathan
Detention by Steve Coy and John Ferraro
Disposable by Michael Hood
Divided States of America by Luc Sauser
Dog Tags by John Varkados
Don't Blink by Kelly Asher
Dreadel by Nick Roth
Drinking in Church by Kieran Angelini
E.L.Fin by Joseph Costa
Edge of the Rainbow by Barbara West
Erasure of Micro Buddy by Ashley Dacek
Esperanza by Cristian Lacatus
Eternal Legacy by Sandon Yahn
Eve’s Apocalypse by Woods Michael
Exonerated by Bob Crandall and Bruce Dunn
Fall Into Me by Michelle Deni Malouf
False Flag by Peter Murphy III
Family Embers by Carlo Colecchia
For You by Shunsuke Funakoshi
Forgotten Dream by Leon Klapper
Fourplex by David Schwartz
Gentlemen of the Gridiron by Birgit Syran Myaard
Ghost in the Grid by D Ross
Ghosts Live Forever by Harold Hababou
Girlfriend by Justin Davi
Gridiron by Travis J. Opgenorth
Growing up in Public by Kanchi Wichmann
Heartrace by Will Bermender
Heavy by Collette Legault
Heavy Driver by Chad Magnant
Hemispheres by Robert Potter
Highway to America by AJ Dhalla
Hire a Liar by John N. Michaels
Hit Mom by Kevin Lee Miller
If Only by Erika Knight
In Plain Sight by Brian Lipford
Jack and Dianne by Johnny Galvan 3
Jaded by Damian Colomb
Just Wait 'Til You're Dead by Sam Robotham
Kate's Light by Dave Schroeder
Kavings by Daniel Lewis
Kids Together by Matthew McLachlan
Kutter by Scott Winlaw
Last Leg by Kyle Thomas
Let's Stay Together by Ted Gavarkavich
Light Keepers by Duncan Putney
Little Deer and the Conqueror of Satan by Wiktor Grodecki
Locals by Miles Kahn
Love Loss by Kelly Cochran-Yzquierdo
Love on the Christmas Train by Lisa Hagen
Loyalty by Paula Murrain
Meet the Rudolphs by James Sismanes
Midnight Rainbow by Kelly Song
Migrants by Lindsay Waite
Mischievious by Warren Lane
Mixed Feelings by Brielle Wines
Moon Shine by KT Roth
Motion Talent Agency by Cosima Cabrera
Murder in Frames by Geoff Hall
Murder on the Rio Grande by Madeleine Vessel
Neighbors by Andi Lipo
Ni Fu, Ni Fa by Esteban Garza
Nightfall by Lynn McPherson
No Gimmies by Nicholas Cariddo
Nobody Stops for Normal by Lee Karaim
Nobody's Heroes by Michael Elliott
Nuptiality 101 by Robert Skollar
Oath by Paul Frank
Old Nick by Sean Plemmons and Jeff Hassen
On the Record by Adam Goudchaux
One Less Egg To Fry by Dennis Manning
One Mens Terrorist Is an Other Mens Freedom Fighter by Helga Smit
One Night Stan by Robbie Robertson
Origin Story by Ama Adair
Out For Blood by Derek Jones
Override by Carlo and Erin Carere
Overwhelming Darkness by S A Hart
Paradiso by Tyler Harvey
Payload by Phillip Cook
Peter the Great! by Jack Zafran
Philadelphia in Phases by David Sanders
Phillis by Wilandrea Blair
Picture Man by Broderick Fox
Pinch by Jared Raman
Play Responsibly by Donald Lewis
Postmark - Havana by Matthew Doherty
Put Me Out by Steve Coy
Quicksilver by K Wolf
Return of Blackbeard by Douglas Charles MacLeod
Return to the Allagash by Jim Levi and Bob Harris
Revolt of the Good Guys by Christy Daniels
Round Trip by John Laurence
Ruby Ridge by Lawrence Kane
Run Little Brown Boy by Michail Eggelhoefer
Sally by Jon Meredith
Sea Change by Steven Miller
Searching for Shadow by Marie Smalley
See Me by Christian Hearn
Sestra by Ali Jordan
Show Runner by KT Roth
Show Up! by Jeanne Taylor
Showtime by Grayson Brooke
Silent Library by Jose Manuel
Soul Trader by Ralph Henry Price
Stay Awhile by Anthony Martinez
Stone Lion in the Garden by Rae Jones
Stories My Father Never Told Me by Jeff Rosenberg
Subsidence by Lisa Nagy Isaacson
Suburban Samurai by Gerald Smith
Sullen Falls by Frank Palumbo
Summer of '04 by Traian Toma
Sundowning by Shay Michael
Takao by James Sutherland
Tangled Web by Robert Morgan Callahan
Terminal Flight by Omar M Amer
The 3B Club by Crystal Walkup
The Agitators by Andrew Sloth
The Appalachian Revenant by Angel L Martinez
The Big Gun by Tristin Yun
The Bloody Claws of Willow Creek by Matt Hausmann
The Blue Engine by Sean O'Connor
The Broken Spoke by DonnaMarie Miller
The Cat Lady by Jessica Denson
The Corruption by Alyssa Stevens
The Dark Season by Steve Clune
The Day by Anthony Martinez
The Dead Ringer by Suzanne Lutas
The Degenerate by Dominic Graham
The Dutchman by Robert Morgan Callahan
The Eighth House by Zack Van Eyck
The Empty Sea by David Poulshock
The Firedogs by Lit Kilpatrick
The Ghostwriter by Selton Shaw
The Good Club by Gerald Smith
The Language of Wolves by Nan Schmid
The Last Page by Jason Cooper
The Last Resort by Barry Brock
The Last Summer of Childhood by Shaun Coast
The Leaves Will Change by Kevin Taylor Bryce
The Legend of Yakatutch by Sean Francis Ellis
The Life I've Made by Patrick Hayes
The Long Way Home by Beverley Wood
The Lot by Eric Anderson
The Lyon of Times Square by Christopher Loveland
The Meeting House by Sophie Neville
The Nights We Danced at Stonewall by Stephen Lane
The Old Master by Anthony Murphy
The Paper Squadron by Carlton Welch
The Past Is Not by Kevin Barney
The Phantom Directive by Jack Sherry
The Pit by Duncan Putney
The Place of the Dead by Joanna Thyer
The Polski Affair by Kenneth Gildin
The Queen of Dystopia by Tina Field Howe
The Realtor by Jack Newsome
The Red Zone by Terry Podnar
The Red, White, and Boom by Hymnson Chan
The Second Prom of Willy Strom by Jim Spivey
The Shakespeare Plays by Martin Keady
The Silence Devours by Alyssa Jefferson
The Singer or The Allure of Being a C*nt by A S Vieira
The Spirit of Life by Margie Walker
The Sun's Mirror by Allen Burch
The Teacher by Jay Fjestad
The Teenage Bodyguard by JZ Murdock
The Theory of Almost Everything by Vicki VanArsdale
The Timeline Jumper by Kimberly McLeod
The Two of Us by Dianna Ippolito
The Venusian Chronicles by Lynn Vincentnathan
The Whispers in the Woods by Tony McBride
The White Diamond by M Howard Sewell Jr
The Woods by Trey Everett
The World Turned Upside Down by Dennis OFlyng
The Year I Saved Christmas by John Purvis
The Yearning by Paul Frank
Thoughts & Prayers by Bob Ingraham
Tilt by James Sismanes
Tip Toe by Seth Conley
Transit by pp Hsiung
Tuesday Night Dragonslayer Club by Michael Rogan
Two Wheeled Odyssey by Dexter Gareau
Under the Texas Sky by Dan Southard
Unexpected Guest by Alison Hope Hickli
Unfathomable by Barry Brock
Walkers by Gary Cearlock
What's a Zayde? by Andrew Epstein
White House at Night by Richard Carson Bailey
Who Let the Wallflowers Out? by Virginia Austin
WindRider by Zachary Moddejonge
Wintergreen by Lyndal Simpson
Wishing Well by Gary Bickal
Written in Her Skin by Michelle Blau and Marva Whitaker
Yasuke's Legacy by John Logan McGee and Nelson Moses