Kathryn Orwig

Thrilled to have my action-adventure feature script EXHALE place as a ISA Fast Track Fellowship 2023 Second Rounder!

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I'm beyond grateful to have my mafia murder mystery TV Pilot, CASUS BELLI make the semifinals in the Francis Ford Coppola American Zoetrope 2022 Competition! Out of 2,000 submissions!

I'm so thrilled to have my supernatural horror TV Pilot, BeTwIxT place as a winning Genre Selection of the ISA Fast Track Fellowship 2022 for Best Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy Category!

I am thrilled my mafia murder mystery TV Pilot CASUS BELLI and supernatural horror TV Pilot BeTwIxT made Top 50 of the ISA Fast Track Fellowship 2022!

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Excited that TWO scripts, CASUS BELLI and BeTwIxT made the Second Round Selections of ISA's Fast Track Fellowship 2022. 

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IGUANA DOG has advanced to the Top 10 of the Roadmap Writers' Shorts Competition!

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NOT MY BROTHER has placed in the ISA Action and Adventure Genre Busting Screenplay Competition as a Quarter Finalist!

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Look at this amazing poster art of BeTwIxT designed and created by Spencer Schulte! 

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I'm so happy that NOT MY BROTHER made it into the Semi-Finals of the 2021 FilmQuest Film Festival Feature Script Competition. It placed in the Top 85 scripts!

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I'm so grateful that NOT MY BROTHER has advanced to the Quarter-finalist round in The Script Lab Free Screenplay Competition 2021!

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BeTwIxT has placed as a Semi-Finalist in the 2021 Genre Blast Film Festival Script Competition! So grateful!

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NOT MY BROTHER has been selected as an Official Selection of the Script Summit Season 4 Screenplay Competition! So grateful!

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NOT MY BROTHER has placed Quarter-Finalist in the Los Angeles Screenplay Awards - Winter 2021! So so so excited and grateful!

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So happy that my Supernatural-Horror TV Pilot, BeTwIxT, won the 2021 International Horror Hotel Film Festival Dramatic TV Pilots Competition!

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So excited that my Supernatural-Horror TV Pilot, BeTwIxT, is an Official Selection of the Oregon Scream Week Film Festival Summer 2021 in Portland!

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So excited that my feature film script NOT MY BROTHER made the Quarter-Finals list for the Screenwriters Network (SWN) 2021 Screenplay Competition! ​

Check out BeTwIxT's opening pages in this year's RC Alumni Journal!

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My 30-minute short film script THE ADVENTURES OF STAR GIRL AND THE MARBLE ROLLER has been chosen as a finalist (top 4)! See my blog post for more details.

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Details to come about an 20 episode animated TV Web Series I'm writing for It's Not a Phase Mom, LLC.

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I don't have the words to express my gratitude to have my mafia murder mystery TV Pilot, CASUS BELLI advance in the Stowe Story Labs Sidewalk Film Festival Fellowship 2023 competition! What an incredible honor!

I'm amazed my historical action-adventure script, EXHALE, inspired by my great-great-grandmother and her experiences, placed in the TOP 10 of the Emerging Screenwriters Action/Adventure Screenplay Competition!

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I'm beyond blessed to have my historical action adventure feature script NOT MY BROTHER as a Semifinalist (Top 15) in the 2022 Stowe Story Labs Page Awards Fellowship!

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I am thrilled my mafia murder mystery TV Pilot CASUS BELLI made Top 50 of Roadmap Writer's Top Tier Competition 2021-2022 season.

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Excited to announce that my YA Viking novel placed Top 50 in Roadmap Writer's Write Start Competition! 

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NOT MY BROTHER has advanced to the Top 100 Semi-Finalists of the ISA Action and Adventure Screenplay Competition!

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IGUANA DOG placed in the Top 50 short scripts in Roadmap Writers' Competition!

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NOT MY BROTHER won 2nd place in the Michigan Writers Features category of Script Summit 2021!

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NOT MY BROTHER made Second Round Selections of the ISA Fast Track Fellowship!

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I'm so grateful that NOT MY BROTHER has advanced to Finalist in the Script Summit 2021 Screenplay Competition!

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NOT MY BROTHER has placed Preliminary Finalist in the 2021 Creative World Awards! So, so, so grateful!

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NOT MY BROTHER has placed Semi-Finalist in the Reno-Tahoe Cordillera International Film Festival! So grateful!

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I had a lovely time talking about writing with Script Summit! Check out the article linked below!

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So excited and honored that, NOT MY BROTHER, is a Quarter-Finalist in the 2021 ScreenCraft True Story and Public Domain Competition! 

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So excited and honored that NOT MY BROTHER took second place in the Best Feature Script Category as an Honorable Mention at the New York Movie Awards, March 2021! 

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So excited that BeTwIxT made the Semi-Finalist list for the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival 2021 Screenplay Competition! 

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Honored (and super excited!) that my original supernatural horror pilot script, BeTwIxT, is an Official Selection and nominated for Best Short Screenplay at the Women in Horror Film Festival 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia!

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PC: Isaac Bergmann and Matt Orwig

I am so grateful to have been selected as one of two winners for the Non-Fiction category for this year's Summer 2017 Hopwood Awards! The Hopwood Library has always been my favorite room at UofM. Read the blog post below for an in-depth dive of how the Hopwood library has made an impact on me. 

Wow! My mafia murder mystery TV Pilot, CASUS BELLI advanced in the Stowe Story Labs Sidewalk Film Festival Fellowship 2023 competition! 

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I'm so thrilled to have my mafia, murder, mystery TV Pilot CASUS BELLI place as a Quarter Finalist in The Script Lab Free Screenplay Competition!

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I am so happy my YA historical fantasy book THE SEA CHILD is a Top 10 Finalist in the Roadmap Write Start Manuscript Competition! 

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So happy that my YA Viking Manuscript THE SEA CHILD has made the Top 25 selections of Roadmap Writer's Write Start Competition!

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IGUANA DOG is a Grand Prize Winner of the Roadmap Writers' Shorts Competition!

IGUANA DOG has placed Top 25 in the Roadmap Shorts Competition!

CASUS BELLI won the LA Crime and Horror Film Festival's Best Crime TV Script 2021! I am so thrilled! Thank you LA Crime and Horror!

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I'm so happy that BeTwIxT made it into the Finals of the 2021 FilmQuest Film Festival. Top 50!

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I'm so happy that NOT MY BROTHER almost made it into the Quarter Finalists of the 2021 Academy Nicholl's Fellowship. It placed in the next 100 scripts behind the 360 chosen to advance out of 8,191 scripts entered! 

I'm so grateful that I have been selected as the Roadmap Writers Diversity Initiative Winner for August! Read the interview I had with them here.

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NOT MY BROTHER has placed Quarter-Finalist in the 2021 Page International Screenplay Awards! So, so, so grateful!

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BeTwIxT is a current finalist in the Oregon Scream Week Film Festival! Top Ten! So excited!

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NOT MY BROTHER has placed Quarter-Finalist at the 2021 Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition!

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So thrilled, excited, and honored that NOT MY BROTHER is a Quarter-Finalist in the 2021 New York International Screenplay Competition!

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So excited that NOT MY BROTHER is an Official Selection of the New York Movie Awards! 

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Thrilling to see BeTwIxT make Quarter-Finalist in the Southern California Screenplay Competition! 

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So incredibly grateful to write that my screenplay THE ADVENTURES OF STAR GIRL AND THE MARBLE ROLLER was selected as the Best Screenplay in the National Film Festival for Talented Youth 2018 Story Starts Here Screenplay Competition! 

I am excited to announce that Z Publishing has accepted seven pieces for publication in their 3rd Creative Writing Series Anthology! Two of my poems and five short stories are included in this collection. Confined Connections is now ready for purchase!!

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