Young Screenwriter Competition 2020 Winner!

5th October 2020

We are pleased to announce the Winner and Runners-up for this years highly contested Young Screenwriter Competition

The entries this year were fantastic, and we’d love to have been able to produce so many of the fantastic stories that our talented PQA students devised.


And the winners are…..

Winner – Sheetal Chopra, PQA Cambridge – for her drama ‘English-Lit’
Runner-up – Milly Auchincloss, PQA Watford – for her comedy/drama ‘Something Sensible’
Runner-up – Sofia Torrell, PQA Mallorca – for her drama ‘The Impossible Dream’
Runner-up – Lucy Johnson, PQA Sutton Coldfield – for her Untitled comedy/drama
Runner-up – Tilly Jones, PQA Wickford – for her drama ‘Masked’


The winning young screenwriter will now have the opportunity to work with a professional screenwriter to turn their script into a screenplay.

The film will be shot by a professional crew with our winner and her peers invited to shadow the crew on location. Below is last years winner, Meredith Ryder from PQA Hemel Hempstead’s short film ‘The Monster in the Fridge’