r/Screenwriting
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Members
1,707,320
as of February 2025
Last post
today
September 28, 2026
Posts (30 days)
100+
Created
2009
March 11, 2009
Total posts
210.8K
archived
Total comments
2.1M
archived
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r/Screenwriting had 1,707,320 members as of February 2025, the most recent archive crawl of its subscriber count.
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r/Screenwriting was created on March 11, 2009.
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