Everward Storyworks is pleased to welcome Emory Cain, a screenwriter whose work focuses on ambition, perseverance, loss, hope, and the complicated roads people travel while chasing something that matters.
Cain joins Everward Storyworks with an expanding portfolio of screenwriting projects and a simple philosophy: the most memorable stories begin with characters audiences can believe in — people who struggle, fail, get back up, and continue forward even when the odds suggest they shouldn’t.
At the center of Cain’s current work is the feature screenplay The Dream in His Pocket.
The story follows Jamie Matthews, a young man who leaves his West Virginia home for New York City carrying little more than a suitcase, a notebook, and an unwavering dream of becoming an actor. What follows is not a story of instant success, but of rejection, friendship, sacrifice, disappointment, and the stubborn determination required to keep pursuing a dream when walking away would be easier.
That emphasis on the human journey is central to Cain’s writing.
His stories are interested not simply in whether a character succeeds, but in what the pursuit costs them, what they discover along the way, and who they become before reaching the other side.
Cain writes primarily for film, developing character-driven stories intended to connect with audiences long after the final scene.
His association with Everward Storyworks also represents an important part of the company’s broader mission.
Everward was created around the belief that a story should not necessarily be limited to a single medium. A story that begins as a screenplay may someday become something more. A book may find a second life on screen. A historical event may inspire a dramatic adaptation. What matters is finding the form that allows each story to reach its audience.
Cain’s work brings the screenwriting side of that vision into sharper focus.
While The Dream in His Pocket represents an important step in his creative journey, it is intended to be only the beginning. Future projects will explore different characters, places, and periods while retaining the emotional storytelling at the heart of his work.
For Cain, writing a screenplay is ultimately about more than creating scenes and dialogue.
It is about finding the moment when an audience stops watching a character from a distance and begins hoping that character makes it.
Those are the stories Emory Cain wants to tell.
Those are also the stories Everward Storyworks wants to help bring into the world.
And this partnership is just getting started.
Welcome to Everward, Emory.
