If readers aren’t grabbed by your story in the first 15 pages, they may not keep reading. Submit the first 15 pages of your script and have a 15-minute story notes call with the executive of your choice. This call will help you create a strong opening/act one to keep readers going until FADE OUT.
Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com
Genre (sci-fi, fantasy, horror) done in a new and exciting, socially relevant way (think INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE). Diverse leads. Surrealism. Dramedies. Nonlinear storytelling.
Hari Ziyad (he/they) is a Cleveland, OH-born death doula, the bestselling author of the memoir Black Boy Out of Time, and the creator and former Editor-in-Chief of the online publication RaceBaitr. Their perspective is expanded by growing up as a Black and queer child in a Hindu and Muslim household, and their writing has been featured in Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Huffington Post, and in peer-reviewed academic journals, among other publications. They are a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and their credits include NEIGHBORHOOD (CBS, staff writer) and DAVID MAKES MAN (OWN, script consultant). They are a Rideback Rise Circle Member, a Screencraft Feature Competition quarterfinalist, a Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards quarterfinalist, and they are currently in development on a thirty minute horror-satire and a low budget dramedy feature.
After registering, you will receive instructions on how to submit your material in your order confirmation email. After submitting your material, please allow 3-4 weeks to receive proposed times for scheduling your call with the exec.
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Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com
Cancellation Policy: You may cancel your registration for a refund or Roadmap gift card if you have not yet submitted your material for review. However, once your material has been received by Roadmap, your registration cannot be canceled. Having revised material or a desire to retroactively apply a discount or gift card code are not grounds for cancellation, refunds, or gift card credit. Once your material has been submitted, the only acceptable grounds for cancellation and a refund or gift card credit is an unforeseen, ongoing emergency on the part of either the writer or the exec resulting in more than 6 weeks without any scheduling update from the exec via direct contact or Roadmap, or a sudden change in the exec's ongoing availability. In the instance of an irreconcilable scheduling issue, the writer may still receive a written feedback report from the exec. In this case, the writer is not entitled to a refund or gift card credit as the exec has read the submitted material and provided written feedback in lieu of the call.