Creative Work & Publications

Screenwriting

LET THERE BE LIGHT - feature screenplay, cowritten with Paula Andrea Cajiao

• Best Feature Script Nominee. Script Awards Los Angeles. (Sept. 2024)

• Quarterfinalist. Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition. (2024)

SEX TALK - feature screenplay

• Second Rounder. Comedy Feature Screenplay. Austin Film Festival. (2024)

• Quarterfinalist. ScreenCraft Comedy Competition. (2024)

• Quarterfinalist. ScreenCraft Feature Competition. (2024)

• Quarterfinalist. Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. (2024)

• Quarterfinalist. Table Read My Screenplay Competition. (2024)

• Quarterfinalist. Emerging Screenwriters Comedy Screenplay Competition. (2024)

NISEI - feature screenplay, cowritten with Stephen J. Root

• Official selection for Juried Screenplay Competition. University Film and Video Association. Virtual Conference Day. (2023)

KING - tv pilot script

• Grand Jury Nominee. Richmond International Film Festival. (2022)

• Quarterfinalist. ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition. (2021)

• Official selection for Juried Screenplay Competition. University Film and Video Association. Virtual Conference. (2021)

• Award Winner. LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival. (2021)

• “LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene Reading: KING, by Jessica L. Folk”. Professionally recorded table read. LGBT Toronto Film Festival. (2021)

‘TIL DEATH - tv pilot script

• Honorable Mention (2nd place). Official selection for Juried Screenplay Competition. University Film and Video Association. Minneapolis, MN. (2019)

Honorable Mention, Round Three, NYC Midnight Short Screenplay Contest. (2017)

“Five” - short film - Written by Jessica L. Folk

• African American Short Films Series. Badami Productions. (2016)

  Vimeo link: "Five" (dir. Kali Baker-Johnson)     (password: yellow)

POSTER GIRL - feature screenplay

• Second Round Finalist, Write Room Screenplay Competition. (2016)

• Finalist, California Women’s Film Festival. (2016)

• Finalist, Biographical/Historical Category, New York Screenplay Contest. (2014)

• Finalist, Upstate and North Country New York Award, The West Field Screenwriting Awards. (2014)

• Semi-Finalist, Reel Writers Screenwriting Competition. (2014)

• Quarterfinalist, Richmond International Film Festival. (2014)

Creative Nonfiction

• “We are tired of our rights being trampled on constantly” Queer Kentucky digital platform creative non-fiction op-ed. (Queer Kentucky, 2024).

• “The 4x6 Photograph”. The Turning Point anthology. (Exisle Publishing, 2021).

• “A Recipe for Emotional Abuse”. Sinister Wisdom 117: Lesbians in the City. (Sinister Wisdom, 2020).

• “An Irish Goodbye”. Fear and Courage Collection. (Exisle Publishing, 2019).

• “Sing Us a Song”. Ghost City Review, Vol. 2: 69-71. (Ghost City Press, 2016).

Poetry

• “I See You”. Ghost City Review, Vol. 2: 18-19. (Ghost City Press, 2016).

• “Once is Enough”. Ghost City Review, Vol. 2: 20-22. (Ghost City Press, 2016).

Other Work

• Stickle, Trini, et al. “Learning Together: Intergenerational Activities for Residential Centers.” Applied Health Humanities for the Aging: Activities for Home and Institutional Caregivers, edited by Trini Stickle and Lorna E. Segall, Routledge, 12 2024.

  Text available for preorder here, beginning 11/27/24.

• “‘Gay Poems for Red States’ a complex collection from Carver” book review by Jess Folk. Bowling Green Daily News. (2024)

• “Home Forever”. Music video. Written and produced by Jessica L. Folk. Beautiful Mess Productions. (2015)

• “Into Another Time”. Create-Your-Own-Adventure Story Writer. Episode app. Pocket Gems. (2014-15)