Virginia Shine Writer

08/20/2026

We are casting for our Table read at the Maumee Film Festival information in comments.

07/09/2026

Writers, there are 500 submissions remaining.

There’s still time to submit your feature screenplay through the Writers Guild Foundation for the 2026-2027 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. The deadline to submit is July 20, 2026 at 5 pm PT, or when 2,000 screenplays have been submitted - whichever comes first.

Learn more at wgfoundation.org/nicholl

07/07/2026

https://glasscityscreenwriters.com/2026/07/07/july-2026/

We celebrated the 250th with fireworks and a heatwave here in Toledo. Hope you are keeping cool and thinking about your writing projects! The Horror Hotel Film Festival was a fun time as always. Th…

06/08/2026

Starting small, baby steps with this

Founding Glass City Screenwriters in 2016, Virginia writes Sci/Fi and Horror. If it is weird or mysterious, that's her jam! Award winning writer/filmmaker and 2025 graduate of the Writers Guild Foundation Veterans Writing Project. Click to read Virginia Shine on Substack. Launched 3 months ago.

05/05/2026

GCSW blog is live

May your writing be prolific like the flowers after April showers. Happy May everyone! We had an inspiring meetup in April with a fun table read and discussion.  Let’s keep the momentum …

04/07/2026

https://glasscityscreenwriters.com/2026/04/07/april-2026/

Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels.com So we all know that writing can be a solitary venture. Most writerly people I know, including myself, are very comfortable in that space, maybe to an extreme. …