Rod Serling Award at Ithaca College

We are pleased to announced the 2020 Rod Serling Scriptwriting Competition. If you are an uncredited writer, follow the link and apply with your best original scripts done in the "Twilight Zone" tradition!

Serling Scriptwriting Competition | Ithaca College The Rod Serling Scriptwriting Competition Yearly competition open to non-produced, or non-optioned writers only. 2020 Awards Eligibility The script competition is open to non-produced, or non-optioned writers only. Any applicant who has earned money or other consideration as a screenwriter for theat...

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CELEBRATE THE APPROACH OF 2020 WITH THE TWILIGHT ZONE MARATHON ON SYFY!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Twilight Zone New Year's Marathon 2019 / 2020 Schedule Ready to enter the fifth dimension? We have the Twilight Zone New Year's Marathon schedule right here.

Watch this year's Rod Serling Award Ceremony honoring Norman Lear.

The Serling Award - Ithaca College On November 15, 2018 the Rod Serling Award was presented to American television writer and producer Norman Lear who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, and The Jeffersons -- each of which used humor to provoke audiences to critically examine race, pr...

Congratulations to Norman Lear, this year's recipient of the Rod Serling Award. Pictured: Norman Lear, Dean Diane Gayeski, and Mike Royce '86, Lear's colleague on One Day at a Time.

Photo: Jake West for Ithaca College

This year's recipient of the Rod Serling Award is Norman Lear. We are thrilled to recognize him on November 15, 2018.

For those interested in watching the event, you can tune in at https://www.ithaca.edu/rhp/serling/live/. The broadcast will start at approximately 10:30 ET/7:30 PT.

IC Honors Norman Lear | Ithaca College The legendary producer, filmmaker and activist will receive the Rod Serling Award for Advancing Social Justice Through Popular Media.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Rod Serling Scriptwriting Competition. They are as follows:

First Place: Vance Berk, Songbird on the Wire

Second Place: David Eversole, Shoo, Fly

Third Place: Eugene Ramos, When Waterdrops Have Worn the Stones of Troy

This year’s winners will receive prizes of $250, $150 and $100 respectively.

The competition honors excellence in a short script displaying strong contemporary social themes in the science fiction and horror genres that are in the tradition of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone or Night Gallery. It is open to non-produced or non-optioned writers only.

This year’s competition had a record number of entries from countries all over the world. The finalists were read by a panel of industry professionals as well as by Carol Serling.

The Rod Sering Scriptwriting Competition is back!

Looking for amazing scripts written in the same genre and style that would have been suitable to conform with episodes for either THE TWILIGHT ZONE or NIGHT GALLERY. More specifically, this means displaying traits of either a horror or a science fiction genre, while exhibiting strong traditional or contemporary social themes.

Deadline: Monday, Sept. 17, 2018.

Scriptwriting Competition - The Serling Award - Ithaca College The script competition is open to non-produced or non-optioned writers only. The deadline for entries is Monday, Sept. 17, 2018

The Rod Serling Memorial Foundation sponsored a "Narrate Your Own Twilight Zone" competition. Foundation member and actor Stephen Dexter eagerly volunteered to perform the winning entries as Rod Serling. Check it out.

Narrate Your Own Twilight Zone 2017 Winners The Rod Serling Memorial Foundation presents the winners of the 2017 Narrate Your Own Twilight Zone competition... 1st place: "Split the Difference" by Josep...

Now that the TZ Marathon is over, you have time to listen to the 2017 Rod Serling Award podcast honoring Bill D'Elia '69 and David E. Kelley.

Ithaca College 2017 Rod Serling Award

Photos from the Serling Award honoring David E. Kelley and Bill D'Elia '69.

David E. Kelley and Bill D'Elia '69 were honored with the Serling Award on December 7, 2017. Actor William Shatner presented the award and Brian Herzlinger '97 served as the master of ceremonies.

Photos by: Jake West for Ithaca College