ERIN COPEN HOWARD
After 22 years in unscripted television, I’ve broken free as an award-winning feature film screenwriter creating bold, high-concept sci-fi, horror, drama, action, and thrillers that get weird, hit hard, and refuse to play by the rules of reality.
Projects
Counting on Clark
Feature Screenplay
YA Sci-fi AdventureLogline: A 17-year-old math prodigy joins a time-traveling mission to rescue her future self, only to discover love, identity, and the key to saving the universe in a gravity-defying adventure through space.
Final Draft Big Break 2025 – Top 10 Sci-Fi (out of 12,000+ entries)
The Women’s List 2025 – Best Screenplays of the Year
StoryPros 2025 – Semifinalist (Top 12%)
Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition 2025 – Quarterfinalist
APEX
Feature Screenplay
Sports Action ThrillerLogline: In a future where global wars are replaced by televised combat between each nation’s elected “fighter president,” a female MMA trainer becomes America’s new Champion in Chief and must survive the world’s deadliest fighters while uncovering a global conspiracy.
Page Turner Awards 2025 – Longlist Finalist
Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition 2025 – Quarterfinalist
We'll Be Safe Here
Short Screenplay
DramaLogline: After fleeing a violent attack by her husband, a mother and her children settle into a quiet small town that seems to offer the safety they desperately need, but the peace they find there conceals a devastating truth that will change everything.
LA Independent Women Film Awards 2025 - Official Selection
Death in Reality
Feature Screenplay
Drama/Inspired by a True StoryLogline: A control-obsessed reality-TV producer who’s built her career scripting other people’s lives is forced to face the one story she can’t control - the collapse of her industry and the desperate fight to save her dying child.
The Storm in Her
Feature Screenplay
ThrillerLogline: A woman is trapped with dangerous men in the desert as a violent storm rolls in, unleashing supernatural forces that twist the night into something far more deadly.
Think Apocalypse
Short Screenplay
Dark Comedy/HorrorLogline: Five desperate screenwriters land the meeting of a lifetime, only to discover that in Hollywood, bad ideas can be deadly. Welcome to the writers room from hell.
Wish Seeds
Feature Screenplay
Family Drama/Magical RealismLogline: When a single mother and her autistic son discover wish-granting seeds that revive their dying desert town, their new life blooms with hope, until her abusive ex returns, threatening to destroy everything they’ve grown.