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A pre-thank you to anyone who has a few extra dollars to spare towards my trip.
I have a few months to raise all the funds, though I am hoping to get the money for the plane ticket soon, so that I can confirm that I will be able to be in attendance. I broke down the basic costs needed, as well as what the Play Lab entails on the fundraising page itself:
It won't be the first opportunity I've had to turn down. But this was such a big deal for me that I am going to research what that cost would look like. I have a month to render a final yes or no.
But it is really cool that I got in. It was unexpected.
(All publications listed newest-oldest.)
PUBLISHED SHORT STORIES:
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"Old Roots, New Soil," Once Upon
an Ever After; Kaye Lynne Booth, Wordcrafter Press, August 2022.
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Monologue from “Have You Ever Heard a Goldfinch
Sing?”, 2022 Best Women's Monologues; Smith & Kraus, August 2022.
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"Spinoza's Garden," Brave New
Worlds; Zombies Need Brains, LLC, August 2022.
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“The Last Seven Tribes of Ketchari,” REPRINT, A
Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Volume One; The Author's Hand, June 2022.
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"When the Dust Settles," Unburied:
A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction; Dark Ink Books, June 2021.
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"When Apple Woke," Upon a Twice
Time; Air & Nothingness Press, May 2021.
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"Footsteps on the Floor," parABnormal
Magazine, December 2020.
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“The House on Blaubart Street,” Of Fae &
Fate: Lesser Known Fairy Tales, Retold; Beth Buck, Immortal Works,
September 2019.
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“The Last Seven Tribes of Ketchari,” On Fire;
Transmundane Books, 2017.
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"The Night the Stars Fell," Pantheon
Magazine, May 2017.
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"The Fragrant Feast," Dragons
& Witches; CBAY Books, April 2017.
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"The Keepers of Madleen," Dystopia
Utopia; Flame Tree Publishing, September 2016.
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"Jar of Pickles," One Thousand
Words for War; CBAY Books, April 2016.
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"Fire on the Mountain," Fracture:
Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America; Ice Cube Press, February
2016.
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"Hold the Door," The Northlore
Series, Volume 1: Folklore; Nordland Publishing, May 2015.
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"The White Sisters," What Follows;
Steenburgh & Lennox, Sep 2014.
o "Of Roots and Rings," Elf Love; Pink Narcissus Press, February 2010.
PUBLISHED NON-FICTION ESSAYS:
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COMING SOON: "From Fin to Feet."
o “When Something Awful Happened,” Against Death: 35 Essays on Living [Non-fiction]; Elee Kraljii Gardiner, September 2019.
PLAYWRIGHT FESTIVALS WON:
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(staged reading) “Have
You Ever Heard a Goldfinch Cry?,” Playwright Festival winner, KNOW Theatre,
2020.
o (staged reading) “Randall & Sons,” Playwright Festival winner, KNOW Theatre, 2019.
PLAYS PRODUCED:
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Because Women Were Created to Carry Two Hearts,
Performing Arts Company, SUNY Fredonia, November 1998.
It’s a lot of talking out loud to hear how my words flow, playing
with my Star Wars action figures when I hit writer’s block, and trying to
remember to eat three meals a day when I am on deadlines. It’s been more difficult,
since my accident, but I am still passionate about telling stories.
Stats
2014-2022
53 short stories finished
1
novella finished
11
one-act plays finished
*
190
submissions sent out
137
rejection letters received (not everyone sent them out)
*
16
stories published in anthologies
2
essays published
2
one-act play festivals won
1
writer grant won
I am thrilled to be part of this collection that Debbie Lamedman put together, with a monologue from my winning play Have You Ever Heard a Goldfinch Sing?, from KNOW Theatre's Playwright Festival 2020.
I am equally happy to be sharing the pages with work from my friend and playwright John Mabey, who was my co-winner in the same festival in 2019.
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Womens-Stage-Monologues-2022
The performances will be followed by a talkback session with the artist, writers, directors, and actors.
More information from the theatre itself here.
The virtual performances are free though the theatre, which closed it's last show on March 1st, will be taking donations for the run of the festival and I would love to see this group get some needed community support. If the arts have been a comfort to you at all during this pandemic, consider sending them a few dollars. You can follow the link to the theatre above to donate.
The performances are free but in order to receive the links to the Zoom you have to e-mail the theatre at knowtheatrebinghamton@gmail.com and put Festival Reservation in the subject line.
I hope to see some of you there.
I am excited to announce that I am one of six winners of KNOW Theatre's 2020 Playwright Festival in Binghamton, NY. Each year the theatre chooses three pieces of art and writers craft a 15 minute play inspired by one of them. From that pool, two plays are chosen to be produced for each art piece.
In response to the pandemic and considering the safety of the local community, this year the productions will be performed virtually as stage readings. I am excited to see these new works!
One of my favorite things about this festival is the blind submission process, where the judges don't know anything about the writer and rate the submissions on their responses to the writing and other predetermined criteria.
The festival will be running Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for two weekends, November 20-22 and 27-29. My play will run twice, once each weekend, on different evenings. I will post more when I know more specifics.
