LINDA TANCS
Screenwriter ◊  Book Author ◊  Playwright  ◊ Lyricist ◊  Photographer

Screenwriting Honors/Awards: Include 2025 Second Round, Austin Film Festival Script Competition; 2025 Official Selection, New Hope Film Festival Script Competition; 2025 Semi-Finalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition; 2024 Finalist, Sunvale Screenplay Contest; 2024 Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Animation and Family Competition; 2024 Semi-Finalist, Manhattan Short Film Festival Screenplay Competition; 2023 Second Round, Austin Film Festival; 2023 Finalist, California International Children’s Film Festival; 2023 Finalist, Garden State Film Festival; 2023 Nominee, Best Short Screenplay, AFIN International Film Festival; 2021 Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Animation Screenwriting Competition.

Book Author
Nonfiction: All You Want to Know About Travel (December 2024, Lulu). Available exclusively at lulu.com/shop.

Contributor: Cover Letters for Dummies (Wiley, 2009); Job Search Letters for Dummies (Wiley, 2013); PR News Writer’s Guidebook (Vol. 1)(2014).

Fiction: The Best Words Ever (December 2010, Lulu).

Plays: AIR FARE: 2025 staged reading performance, Open Door Arts Center, New Jersey;  JUST PLANE HUMOR: 2021 Zoom reading, New York City 

Photo Credits: See my iStock by Getty Images portfolio. Content is updated regularly.

Memberships: Authors Guild; Mystery Writers of America; Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators; BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.); Dramatists Guild.

Production: Associate Executive Producer, Mountains After the Flood (documentary).

A list of testimonials is available on the Services page.

Twitter: @latancs

Facebook: /writerlindatancs

IMDB: imdb.me/latancs

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
Conventional wisdom says that childhood often reveals one’s life passion. Linda Tancs discovered that for herself when she opened a treasure chest full of childhood mementos. Among the artifacts was a book created in the second grade. The so-called book was fashioned out of a single sheet of construction paper, bearing the simple title Books of My Own, complete with a homemade Dewey decimal call number. The desire to create was apparently very strong, for what followed during those tender years was a script based on the book He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown for a backyard production directed by the author. And then came the design of a flag and the writing of a national anthem for a fictional country as part of a sixth grade social studies project. But childhood interests have a tendency to bow to the rigors of adult life and ambition. Linda’s path was no different. In the end, though, the sirens of creativity lured her back. And that’s just fine with her. After all, a famous quote reminded Linda to go out on a limb because that’s where you’ll find the fruit.