“Dear Sven, Congratulations! LA Punk Fim Festival has updated the Judging Status of your submission This is Phoenix Not the Circle Jerks to Selected.”

LA writers! See you tomorrow in Lincoln Heights!

Los Angeles writers! Come join us next Wednesday in Lincoln Heights!

Very excited and honored to have my screenplay THE TRIAL OF EDGAR ALLAN POE be selected by @pageturnerawards first as a Finalist and now on their long list!

“Congratulations! Your script THE TRIAL OF EDGAR ALLAN POE placed as a Quarter Finalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall 2025 Competition!”

The voicemail I got today from Julia at the Austin Film Festival letting me know, “your scripts His Horse is Crazy… and…(sniggers)… This is Phoenix…(sniggers)… Not the Circle Jerks (sniggers) have advanced” is probably my favorite voicemail EVER 😆

Just contacted about having my time-traveling-fish-out-of-water-Sci-fi-comedy-Noir being live read in Hollywood! EXCITING!

I’m about 45% on my screenplay about Erik Satie (which takes place in a 1920s Parisian restaurant)!

As a punk rocker, my favorite violence was a younger friend came to visit. Left her in my room and went to work, came home and she punched me in the face, holding up my copies of Roman Holiday, Sabrina and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, screaming, “WHY DID YOU NEVER TELL ME ABOUT AUDREY HEPBURN?!” 😆

“We are thrilled to share that your script, THIS IS PHOENIX NOT THE CIRCLE JERKS has been named a Second Rounder in the Drama Feature category! This distinction places your work among the top 20% of this year’s entries.”

“Hi! Congratulations - you are a Semi-Finalist in the Table Read My Screenplay – Hollywood 2025 Competition! Woohoo!!”

“We are thrilled to share that your script, HIS HORSE IS CRAZY, has been named a Second Rounder in the Drama Feature category! This distinction places your work among the top 20% of this year’s entries.”

Hi! Congratulations - your screenplay MINISTER SPEER is a Quarter Finalist in the Table Read My Screenplay – Hollywood 2025 Competition!” @networkisa

@machightower.bsky.social Thank you @pageawards for the honor two years running and thank you to the defunct @coverfly

Thrilled to be named a 2025 Page Turner Awards Finalist!

Well it looks like those contest placements DID go through after Coverfly closed!

Thrilled to find out my screenplay “HIS HORSE IS CRAZY” is advancing at Final Draft’s Big Break Screenwriting Contest!

L.A. writers! Next Wednesday!

My L.A.magazine interview! shoutoutla.com/meet-sven-no...

I understand silver foxes (esp. punk rock ones) are super hot, but the Millennial servers are getting a tad frisky…

Ten years ago this month I was informed my comedy/sci-fi/thriller about a Noir detective from the segregated 1940s wakes up in modern day multicultural San Francisco had made the Oscar’s screenplay competition. No $100 notes, $130 hosting or film school professor nepotism. Simpler times…😆

Just got interviewed about Coverfly, its impact and closure. NBD 😆

We’re going to miss you Coverfly!!! I tried so hard to win you! 😆😢❤️

Writers! Come join @heidihornbacher.bsky.social and I in Lincoln Heights Los Angeles Wednesday at 7 pm!

Hey Los Angeles writers! Come visit @heidihornbacher.bsky.social and I next Wednesday at 7p.m.!

FOR THE FIRST TIME I placed @PAGEawards!!! How big of a deal is this? 20 minutes after being notified I got my first industry download. Congratulations to all the other writers!

Thrilled to find out my Crazy Horse biopic and my Noir “The Dirty Blonde” have been named semifinalists at Emerging Screenwriters Action Adventure Screenplay Competition!

Albert Speer, Poe in Hell, 1980’s Hardcore Punk and American Genocide; my Noir & Bette Davis screenplays are next at Top 3% of the 333,132 scripts hosted on Coverfly!

#specscriptshoutout for @52variables.bsky.social and her stunning “KILL SWITCH.” Whip smart, original, funny, edge of your seat believable conspiratorial thriller that keeps you guessing until the last pages! When was the last time you read 110 pages in one sitting? That’s how good it is!!!

Got a “6” on my screenplay about runaways where people cut themselves with razors, there’s a police riot, an abortion, a rape, a melee with skinheads, drug use, a robbery, destruction of property, a beating by gang members and a suicide; “Nothing really happens in this script.” 😆

#specscriptshoutout to @rudiomeara and his remarkable "MAJOR"; yet another page turner, it is a stunning, fast paced exploration of resilience, injustice and determination against all odds. Packed with humor and faith & the singular O'Meara visuals, it is edge-of-your-seat stuff!

#specsciptshoutout FINDING FANTASTIC by @HeidiHornbacher a touching slice of life filled with tenderness and regret, loss and moments shared; a poignant reminder of how fleeting our time on earth is and how special life can be in the quotidian. Heidi does it ONCE AGAIN!

I’m 58 today! (I’ve left reference pics in case you don’t recognize me from the 80s or the beginning of the century…)

Honored to have “The Trial of Edgar Allan Poe” be named a Semifinalist at Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Season 10!

Looky what I got in the mail today!

And also to find out my script HIS HORSE IS CRAZY also advanced along with the Noir!

Thrilled to be notified that my Noir script THE DIRTY BLONDE has been named a quarterfinalist!

Already convinced of his guilt, the Devil allows Edgar Allan Poe's 13-Year-old child bride to hold a trial to see if Poe can be admitted into Heaven; but will the jury overlook a lifetime of offensive life choices in favor of his literary output?

Very honored to have THE TRIAL OF EDGAR ALLAN POE advance as a Finalist at the 18th Annual StoryPros International Screenplay Contest!

VERY excited to have The Trial of Edgar Allan Poe be selected as one of the Top 50! Thank you @roadmapwriters !!!

Bette Davis, Crazy Horse and my Noir are at Top 3%, the Punk Rock script is at Top 2%, but today, out of the 291,560 projects on Coverfly, these are my babies.

Very excited to be notified that my screenplay THE TRIAL OF EDGAR ALLAN POE has advanced to the semifinals at StoryPros!

Boy, the script readers who wouldn’t know punk rock if I got up and punched them in the face sure do have a lot of mainstream ideas to make my 1980s screenplay more “believable.” 😆

Hooray! Thank you StoryPros!

“Hi Sven, Great news! You've earned a new Coverfly badge for your project The Dirty Blonde. TOP 3% - Given to top ranked projects

Very pleased indeed to have THIS IS PHOENIX NOT THE CIRCLE JERKS be named a semifinalist at Inroads Fellowship (Season 8). Do you know hard it is to get people to listen to a 1980s 49 second hardcore punk song? Now imagine getting them to read a 107 page script about it.

Favorite note of all time? Wrote a script about a goddess who mixes truth with fiction and gives her gift “internet” to the citizens of Rome as Caesar crosses the Rubicon. Reader said the idea of the capital being stormed was “implausible.”

Who knows for how long, but here’s how 4 of my screenplays are sitting!

So very happy to share that after ALL, THOSE. RE-WRITES, my screenplay MINISTER SPEER is now in the Top 1% of the 222,995 scripts on Coverfly!

Thrilled to see MINISTER SPEER not only back on the Red List, but joining my screenplay about EdgarAllan Poe in the Top 2% of all 221,945 scripts hosted on Coverfly! Thank you Network ISA for the Top 10 Finalist placement at Cannes TRMS!