Same script, different contest. "Jennifer: A Field Guide" has reached the quarter finals of The Golden Age of Television/Short Script contest held by Julie Gray of Just Effin Entertain Me.
UPDATE: Jennifer has reached the semi-finals - see announcement here.
December 18, 2010
November 21, 2010
Gimme Credit
Just found out that my short screenplay "Jennifer: A Field Guide" placed second in the Gimme Credit International Screenplay Competition. Woot!
November 1, 2010
May 29, 2010
literary tattoos
i am ink-free, but this website is giving me ideas. Sylvia Plath, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut - how about a little lemony snicket?
i particularly liked this tattoo for the blind (it reads 'sun').
you don't see much in the way of white ink:
All photos sourced from Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos. If you're interested in submitting your own tattoo, email jen@contrariwise.org.
April 22, 2010
'Down to the Roots' is a podcast
CBC has podcast versions of all of the winners of the CBC Literary Awards up on Between the Covers.
You can listen to 'Down to the Roots' read by an actress (with the applicable Ukrainian accent). How fantastic!
You can listen to 'Down to the Roots' read by an actress (with the applicable Ukrainian accent). How fantastic!
April 7, 2010
james franco writes?
Esquire Mag - read Just Before the Black.
This isn't a one-off - he's doing a creative writing degree at New York University and his story collection (published by Scribner) is coming out in October.
Read more:
Salon
March 22, 2010
'Down to the Roots' wins second prize!
I am delighted to announce that my short story 'Down to the Roots' was awarded second place in the Short Story category (English) of the CBC Literary Awards. The Awards are Canada's largest literary competition for unpublished work in French and English. There were over 6,000 entries this year, including 2,100 in the English Short Story category. There are full lists of the English and French winners posted on the CBC website.
Shelagh Rogers unveiled the results on Thursday morning and a cocktail reception was held in Toronto that evening, hosted by enRoute magazine, CBC, and the Canada Council. There were interviews and photos galore, and it was excellent to get a chance to meet with the other winners from all across Canada. It was a real mix of people, from published authors to newbies.
Here's the evidence up close.
First prize in each category receives $6,000, second prize receives $4000, and all of the stories are podcasted by CBC and published in enRoute magazine.
The judges for the short story category were Austin Clarke, Camilla Gibb and Michael Helm, and the readers included writers like Annabel Lyon, Erika de Vasconcelos, and Elizabeth Kelly.
This is what they had to say about my story:
Jury’s comments:
“Down to the Roots is a three-pronged examination of the cultural and social alienation of a small Ukrainian family (mother, father, and daughter) who are faced with the need to change their Ukrainian background into the larger, invisible and gargantuan Canadian way of doing things. The author provides us with a realistic smear of immigrant life. The attempt of assimilation is wrecked, washed in tears and in humiliation - the loss of love, the daughter's and the wife's, whose attempt to embrace the Canadian way of doing things, ends, for the older immigrants to this country, in these tears of humiliation. ”
National Post coverage
Georgia Straight
CBC (video)
Shelagh Rogers unveiled the results on Thursday morning and a cocktail reception was held in Toronto that evening, hosted by enRoute magazine, CBC, and the Canada Council. There were interviews and photos galore, and it was excellent to get a chance to meet with the other winners from all across Canada. It was a real mix of people, from published authors to newbies.
First prize in each category receives $6,000, second prize receives $4000, and all of the stories are podcasted by CBC and published in enRoute magazine.
The judges for the short story category were Austin Clarke, Camilla Gibb and Michael Helm, and the readers included writers like Annabel Lyon, Erika de Vasconcelos, and Elizabeth Kelly.
This is what they had to say about my story:
Jury’s comments:
“Down to the Roots is a three-pronged examination of the cultural and social alienation of a small Ukrainian family (mother, father, and daughter) who are faced with the need to change their Ukrainian background into the larger, invisible and gargantuan Canadian way of doing things. The author provides us with a realistic smear of immigrant life. The attempt of assimilation is wrecked, washed in tears and in humiliation - the loss of love, the daughter's and the wife's, whose attempt to embrace the Canadian way of doing things, ends, for the older immigrants to this country, in these tears of humiliation. ”
National Post coverage
Georgia Straight
CBC (video)
March 2, 2010
roger ebert makes me cry
Every time I read another article about Roger Ebert, I end up in tears.
It started with this Esquire article.
J made me read 'My Roger Ebert Story' by Will Leitch.
And of course, he's going to be on Oprah today (I refuse to watch - I'm getting dehydrated).
His blog and twitter feed.
Read it and weep.
It started with this Esquire article.
J made me read 'My Roger Ebert Story' by Will Leitch.
And of course, he's going to be on Oprah today (I refuse to watch - I'm getting dehydrated).
His blog and twitter feed.
Read it and weep.
February 25, 2010
advice to writers
On Saturday, The Guardian published 10 rules for writers (part 1, part 2) featuring advice from the likes of Elmore Leonard, Jonathan Franzen, Margaret Atwood and Zadie Smith, among others. Some lovely bits and pieces.
Roddy Doyle:
Do keep a thesaurus, but in the shed at the back of the garden or behind the fridge, somewhere that demands travel or effort. Chances are the words that come into your head will do fine, eg 'horse', 'ran', 'said'.
Geoff Dyer:
Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.
Richard Ford:
Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
Neil Gaiman:
Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
and my favourite...
Will Self:
Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.
The Globe & Mail had a response that focused on the flourishing advice industry.
Also read and loved "That Crafty Feeling" by Zadie Smith in her latest collection of essays, Changing My Mind. Good stuff.
Roddy Doyle:
Do keep a thesaurus, but in the shed at the back of the garden or behind the fridge, somewhere that demands travel or effort. Chances are the words that come into your head will do fine, eg 'horse', 'ran', 'said'.
Geoff Dyer:
Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.
Richard Ford:
Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
Neil Gaiman:
Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
and my favourite...
Will Self:
Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.
The Globe & Mail had a response that focused on the flourishing advice industry.
Also read and loved "That Crafty Feeling" by Zadie Smith in her latest collection of essays, Changing My Mind. Good stuff.
February 16, 2010
'Down to the Roots' shortlisted for CBC Award
The official announcement went up on the CBC website this morning! My story 'Down to the Roots' is one of 28 short-listed in the English story category of the 2009 CBC Literary Awards.
Now I just have to wait for a month to find out who won.
Shelagh Rogers will announce the English-language winners on March 18th, 2010 at 11 a.m. EST on CBC Radio One’s (690 AM, 88.1 FM in Vancouver) Q with Jian Ghomeshi.
The CBC Literary Awards were founded by CBC Producer Robert Weaver to encourage and celebrate Canadian literary talent. During the past twenty-eight years, amazing writers like Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, and Shauna Singh Baldwin have won awards.
Now I just have to wait for a month to find out who won.
Shelagh Rogers will announce the English-language winners on March 18th, 2010 at 11 a.m. EST on CBC Radio One’s (690 AM, 88.1 FM in Vancouver) Q with Jian Ghomeshi.
The CBC Literary Awards were founded by CBC Producer Robert Weaver to encourage and celebrate Canadian literary talent. During the past twenty-eight years, amazing writers like Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, and Shauna Singh Baldwin have won awards.
February 6, 2010
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I'm a writer living and working in the Pacific Northwest. You can see more information about my awards and publications here. Thanks for stopping by!
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