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Watch the winning writing festival novels, stories, films, and screenplays for June 2016.

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Watch the 140 Character Short Story:  A child’s place

Watch the 140 Character Short Story: HOPE

Get to know writer Tanya S. Thamkruphat

1) What is your very short story about?

It’s about having conflicting, tumultuous emotions and when you have lost direction in your life. This story is a reminder that hope is always present, no matter what is happening in your life.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

Personally, I’ve experienced this exact scenario and I felt this story was a powerful message I wanted to share. I know there are others out there who might be experiencing the same thing and I wanted them to know that there will be brighter days ahead, to not give up.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

I’ve seen “Stardust” too many times to count. It’s one my favorite Neil Gaiman stories!

4) How many scripts and stories…

Watch BUTTERFLY, 140 Character Short Story:

Get to know writer Frances Sheehan:

1) What is your very short story about?

My story is about a memory of a pleasurable moment Nature shared with me in the form of a beautiful Butterfly who visited my garden in late summer.

2) What motivated your to write this story?

I wrote story and entered it for two reasons; 1.It was a challenge.2. I wanted to share in my own words the wonder and magic of nature and how she sometimes allows we humans the privelege of entering her world.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

Lord Of The Rings.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

A couple of small novels for children/several short stories and poems l but no scripts as yet.

5) What artist would you love to work with?

Several.

6) Any advice…

Watch THE DROWNING, 140 Character Short Story:

Get to know writer Catherine Bain:

1) What is your very short story about?

It’s a fanciful short think about how humans and nature interact which started with me wondering about when willows first started to weep.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

I went to see a new production of Hamlet recently and was struck anew by Ophelia’s story. The idea about the watery willow came to me in the theatre and then I recalled reading earlier submissions on your website a few days earlier.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

For many reasons I never tire of ‘Tess’, Roman Polanski’s version of Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

I am a very inexperienced writer, have never written a…

Watch NOT ENOUGH, 140 Character Short Story:

Get to know writer Christina Black:

1) What is your very short story about?

The story is about love and how hard is to enjoy love.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

While straight myself, a family member is struggling with her identity for as long as I can remember. I wanted to write something that would show that struggle and how, sometimes, love is not enough.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

Probably The Silence of the Lambs. I was 10 when the movie came out and didn’t watch it until years later, but I was impressed with the script and acting enough to watch it every time it was on the tv. Even now, despite having the DVD, it’s one of the few movies that I will sit…

Watch CONSEQUENCE OF LYING, Twitter Short Story:

Get to know writer Marcus Ako:

1) What is your very short story about?

CONSEQUENCE OF LYING looks at the repercussion of fibbing on a cv, something most of us have done at least once. Someone lies about being colour-blind. Now they need to diffuse a bomb.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

I heard about the festival and felt the challenge to tell an entire story in 140 characters. So many ideas flooded my tiny brain but converting them into that limited space was tough. The punchline hit me first, then I worked backwards to make the story work.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? I have seen that movie – no lie – 50 times. I know all the songs and all the…

Watch LATTE ART, Twitter Short Story:

Get to know writer Darian Young:

1) What is your very short story about?

It’s about a woman who comes across a realization during the wee hours of the morning as she stirs her coffee.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

The story is motivated by people watching in coffee shops and personal beliefs. It was on a whim that I decided to submit it to the contest- a “just to see” kind of thing.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

I’ve seen the film Interstellar (directed by Christopher Nolan) quite a few times. I think the count is six times now. It moves and inspires me every time.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

I have only written one script, but many stories. I write on a…