Regardless of whether you enter Writers on the Storm directly right here at this site, or by submitting your script to Coverage Ink for coverage, to advance to the Quarterfinal round your screenplay must score a "consider with reservations" or better for script (roughly top 10%.) Thus, approximately the top ten percent of our contest entries will advance to the quarterfinal round. Note that "consider with reservations" or better for writer does not advance the screenplay in the contest (but is nice validation nonetheless.)

The top 50 quarterfinalists will advance to the semifinals. From there, four senior analysts will narrow the field down to our ten finalists. Coverage, Ink. founder Jim Cirile, and a select group of industry executives will then each read the top ten scripts to decide on the top three and our Grand Prize winner.

**Coverage, Ink entries receive no preferential treatment. The top 10% (approximately) of both CI submissions and WOTS submissions advance to the quarterfinals.**