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Category: writing
Film AND Play News!
First: Nowhere Normal will be screened in Edmonton this June! It will be part of a Local Heroes community screening, put on by the Edmonton Short Film Festival. Stay tuned for details. You can get a preview at the virtual screening in May, details here.
Second: as you can see above, playwright Heather Morrow will herself be reading from her own play Alex and Michael and Hannah, which is a finalist for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s drama award. Come and support all the finalist writers that day.
AMH is a finalist!
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta has named the play Alex and Michael and Hannah, written by screenwriter Heather Morrow, as a finalist for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama!
The winners of all the 2023 Alberta Literary Awards will be announced on June 3rd.
Signed copies of the play are available on our webstore!
The Easter Bunny arrives!
Thank you again to everyone who supported our next short film Reasons I Hate Being Single via chocolate!
We’ll make arrangements to deliver to you this coming week.
Web Store now Open!
FIRST: Thanks to YOU, we’ve updated our IMDb page for short film Reasons I Hate Being Single officially to pre-production! Whoo!
SECOND: We now have the very basics covered to make the movie, but of course we’re NOT making a basic movie. So: have a look at the extraordinary and unique items in our webstore. You’ll find signed play scripts from screenwriter Heather, and the one-of-a-kind storyboards leading to Heather’s first short, Monster Cat!
Thank you again to everyone tuning into the Write-a-Thon livestream this weekend. The resulting play has now been entered into the Alberta Playwriting Competition, and if it wins, the prize money will go towards the production of Reasons I Hate Being Single.
Last: Thanks also to everyone who pre-ordered from the Purdy’s Easter Bunny! Deliveries are expected the week of April 3.
LIVE NOW, until 6 pm tonight!
We are at Hour 17 of the 24-Hour Write-a-Thon in support of our next short film!
The plan now: writer Heather has a FINISHED FIRST DRAFT of a full-length play, thanks to viewers’ prompts and donations.
Next – she’ll spend the rest of the time revising the play, FINISH it, and submit to the Alberta Playwriting Competition by 6 pm tonight!
Do visit the livestream to cheer her on, and donate if you can.
LIVE NOW! message HERE to chat!
I’ve just been informed (can you tell I’m new to this?) that no one can chat with the write on the YouTube livestream without having a YouTube channel of their own!
So: Please send me character names HERE at takeabite instead!
LIVE NOW! We’re having a Write-a-Thon, because Reasons!
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is the Write-a-Thon!
Tomorrow is the day! Starting at 6 pm, and going straight through to 6 pm on March 25, 2023, YOU can tell ME how to write something brand new!
One more important ‘rule’ – post your prompts on the YouTube chat, and donate here on the Take a Bite website. Technology is complicated.
Also: should you want to help make our film Reasons I Hate Being Single and buy Easter chocolate, tomorrow is also your last day to order.
Vroom vroom.
One Week to Writing Madness!
Our Write-a-thon will be in exactly two weeks! Here are some ground rules for the event:
-I will write a new, full-length play, in 24 hours. The live stream will begin at 6 pm on Friday, March 24, 2023, and will end at 6 pm on Saturday, March 25, 2023. The live stream will be embedded in takeabite.ca , and donations must come via that website.
-Viewers will see a split-screen: on one side, me getting more tired and frantic: on the other side, the play as it’s being written!
-Here is the play’s basic plot:
“3 very different people meet online at the start of the pandemic. They connect, but as the pandemic wears on, their individual lives change, which alters their relationship.”
-At 6 pm on March 24, YOU will give me names for the 3 characters! The first 3 donors will get to provide one name each. Submissions will be via the website.
-Every 60 minutes, I will check prompts and donor amounts. Whoever has donated the most in that 60-minute period will get their prompt used next! I must use the prompt, and I must make it make sense.
-At the end of the 24 hours, whoever has donated the highest amount will pick the name for the villain of Reasons I Hate Being Single !
I will have until March 31, 2023 to fix typos, and then the resulting play will be entered into the Alberta Playwriting Competition.