Stage 32 Feature Screenwriting Contest

April 2020. AWAY WITH MY HEART, co-written by Lawrence Nelson and Hoyt Richards, was awarded the quarterfinalist status by Stage 32 Feature screenwriting contest and by the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards.

FLAT-RATE FRANK, Jeffrey Howe's historical coming of age drama, advanced to the quarterfinals of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. It also entered the semifinal round at the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices competition.

This story was inspired by the circumstances that led to a murder in India that an Indian friend told me about more than 30 years ago. The story could have been apocryphal, but I immediately felt its relevance to the racial problems in America and...