AuthorSuite for Contest & Award Organizers

Every Entry Read.
Every Finalist Certified.

Auto-screen the obvious no's before a judge ever opens them. Score every entry against one rubric that never tires. Send every finalist away with a verifiable credential that carries your competition's name.

See the Program → Talk to Don

A reading period is a wall of submissions
and a volunteer panel with day jobs.
The pile doesn't get smaller. The judges get tired.

What Changes

Before and after the first pass is automated.

Not a new judging philosophy. The same bar your competition already sets — applied to every entry before a judge spends a Saturday on it.

❌ Without AuthorSuite
🕐Judges burn weekends on entries that were never going to final
📉Scoring drifts by judge, by mood, by how late in the stack it is
📭Nothing to show an entrant who disputes why they were cut
😮‍💨Panel burnout — and a harder recruit next year
🏷️Finalists leave with a line on a webpage and nothing portable
✅ With AuthorSuite
🚪The clear no's are screened out before a judge opens them
📐One rubric — entry #1 and entry #500 are read the same way
📄A documented score and category breakdown behind every cut
🎯Judges spend their hours on the shortlist that earns the debate
✦Every finalist leaves with a verifiable credential — your name on it
Why Organizers Use It

Six reasons it belongs in a reading period.

Prose contests, screenplay competitions, TV fellowships, poetry prizes, genre awards — anyone whose intake outgrew their panel.

🚪
First-pass auto-screening
Entries that were never finalist-viable are handled before a judge sees them. The panel opens a shortlist, not a slush pile.
📐
One rubric all season
The same structured evaluation on every entry — no fatigue, no drift, no "it was late in the day" reads.
📄
Defensible scoring record
A documented score, grade, and category breakdown on every entry — so you can answer an entrant who asks why they didn't advance.
🗂️
Category-matched engines
Screenplays, prose, and audio/podcast scripts are each routed automatically to the evaluation engine tuned for that format.
✦
A credential for every finalist
Each finalist leaves with a verifiable AuthorSuite Certificate — and attaches it to every agent and studio submission that follows, with your competition named on it.
🏷️
Priced to a reading period
Volume evaluation scaled to a single window or a year-round program — not an enterprise contract, not a per-seat platform.
The Workflow

Where it sits in your reading period.

It doesn't change how you judge. It changes what reaches the panel and what's on file when you name a finalist.

📥
Submissions open
Intake
Entries come in through your existing submission platform.
📊
MARROW / SLATE / FREQUENCY
Auto first pass
Every entry scored on one standard. The clear no's are set aside; the rest are ranked.
📋
Your panel
Judge the shortlist
Judges spend their hours only on entries that cleared the first pass.
🥇
Certificate of Evaluation
Name finalists
Each finalist gets a verifiable certificate. Every cut has a documented score on file.
📣
Announcement
Winners
Your winners announced — and every finalist walks away with something portable.
A Line You Can Put in Your Rules

The same standard for entry #1 and entry #500.

No fatigue. No drift. No "we were three hundred entries deep by then." Every submission gets the same structured evaluation and a documented score — so when an entrant asks why they didn't advance, you have an answer that holds up. And entries are evaluated, never stored: we keep only the score metadata, never the manuscript or script itself.

Proof Before Pitch

72 entries scored on one rubric before the first client signed.

The founder ran a full slush pile through the evaluation engine before opening it to organizers. These aren't projections.

72
Entries scored on one consistent rubric
1
Standard — first entry to last
$6,500
Saved in reader and coverage costs
$0
Entry bytes stored on our servers. Ever.
The Credential

What your finalists carry into every room after yours.

Every evaluation issues an AuthorSuite Validated Certificate — scored, graded, verifiable by number. Your finalists attach it to every agent query and studio submission that follows. Your competition's name is on the reason they got the meeting.

✦
AuthorSuite Validated Certificate
Entry #0417 — The Midnight Protocol
Feature Screenplay · Crime Thriller · 104 pages
88
Score /100
B+
Grade
🟢 Green-Lit
Certificate #: AS-2026-00847
Verify: authorsuite.online/verify/AS-2026-00847

Agents, managers, and studio readers verify it in ten seconds at authorsuite.online/verify.

Questions Organizers Ask

Answered before you have to.

Does this replace our judges?
No. It clears their desk. AuthorSuite handles the first pass — the entries that were never going to final — and scores the rest on one consistent standard. Your judges spend their hours on the shortlist that actually deserves the debate, not on the pile.
How does the scoring stay fair across hundreds of entries?
The same standard applies to entry #1 and entry #500. No fatigue, no drift, no "it was late in the day" reads. Every entry gets the same structured evaluation and a documented score you can defend.
An entrant disputes their result. What do we show them?
A Certificate of Evaluation — score, grade, and category breakdown. Not a form rejection. A documented, consistent assessment against the same rubric every other entry was held to. It holds up.
We take screenplays, prose, and poetry. Is this one tool for all of them?
Yes. Feature and TV scripts, prose manuscripts, and audio/podcast scripts are each routed automatically to the evaluation engine built for that format. Your intake stays one pipeline.
Can our whole judging panel work from one account?
Yes — that's how the program is set up. Volume evaluation draws from one shared monthly pool, so judges and readers pull from the same allotment rather than each holding a seat.
We run one contest a year, not a year-round program.
Then don't subscribe. Run entries at a flat per-evaluation rate for the length of your reading window, with no ongoing commitment. Or pick the volume tier that covers that one window and change it after.
Two Ways to Partner

No subscription. No cost to run.

Choose the model that fits your competition — or combine both. Either way, there is no platform fee for your organization.

Option 1
Certification as an Entry Requirement

Require every entrant to hold a current AuthorSuite Certificate of Evaluation to submit. Entrants pay AuthorSuite directly, at a discounted rate of $25 per evaluation — well under the standard $49 self-serve rate — and submit their story alongside the certificate. Every entry arrives pre-scored, on file, before your panel opens it.

  • No cost or platform fee to your organization
  • Entrants pay a discounted $25 per evaluation
  • Every entry arrives with a scored certificate attached
  • Sets a quality bar before a single page is read
Option 2
Referral Rebate

Offer AuthorSuite evaluation as a value-add ahead of submission — not a requirement — through your own referral link. Your organization earns a rebate for every entrant who evaluates through it, with no cost or administrative work on your end.

  • A rebate on every referred submission
  • No cost or setup required on your end
  • Offered as a value-add, not a requirement
  • Can run alongside Option 1
✦
Set Up Your Competition
Tell us which model fits — or ask about combining both — and we'll set up your referral link and entry-requirement language. Email don@authorsuite.online. Entrants can evaluate any time at authorsuite.online/selfserve.
Your Reading Period

From a wall of entries to a shortlist you trust.

Your judges on the shortlist. The pile handled. Every finalist carrying your competition's name on their credential. That's what a modern reading period looks like.

See the Program → Talk About a Partnership →

Banker. Author. Founder. — Don Swann II  |  authorsuite.online