Desiree Middleton

Desiree Middleton

Los Angeles, California

Screenwriter
Member Since:
November 2013
Last online:
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About Desiree

Desiree Middleton is a speculative fiction screenwriter and author who just completed a year long mentorship with the Writer’s Guild Foundation, Veteran Writers Program, where she recently pitched her scifi/horror culmination project. She is a former mentee of the Netflix Animation Program. Her sci fi horror script Facsimile was shot on location at Warner Brothers during the AT&T Shape-a-thon and the screenplay was an official selection of the Miami SciFi Film Festival. Desiree holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults, from Hamline University. She resides in Los Angeles where she can be found hiking, stargazing, rock collecting, and searching for portals to another galaxy.
Career Goals

To write horror & sci fi features that scare you and make you think.

Ideal Intellectual Properties

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan, Gone by Michael Grant

Life Experience

Advanced Degree coverfly
MFA Writing from Hamline University
Military coverfly
US Navy
Gamer coverfly
Assassin's Creed, Legend of Zelda, The Witcher

Badges

2024-11-05

Writers' Room Member

Achievements

Red Lister

Made it on the Red List

Pitch Pioneer

Entered Pitch Week 1st time

Dramatic Debut

Added 1st project to Coverfly

Awards

  • Finalist Killer Shorts
    (2025)

  • Mentee Writer’s Guild Foundation Veteran Writers Program
    (2023)

  • Mentee Netflix Animation Program
    (2022)

  • Semifinalist Universal Animation Writer’s Program
    (2021)

  • Official selection Miami SciFi Film Festival
    (2019)

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