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 The Awards are Canada's largest literary competition for unpublished work in French and English.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)
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