Author: poetryfest

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…

Watch SHOES, Twitter Short Story:

Get to know writer Joe Lunne:

1) What is your very short story about?

It’s about a woman finally leaving a hopeless situation.

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

I’ve always thought that a movie opening with a woman loading all of her shoes into a convertible and then driving away to start a new life would be a great way to start a movie. Still fleshing out the script for that idea, but when I heard about the Twitter Short Story contest, I felt it would be a good challenge to parse the narrative down to 140 characters.

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

I watch The Big Lebowski a couple times a year. Chinatown, Brazil, and Raising Arizona are others I watch regularly. Wild Tales will be added to this…

Watch 140 Character Short Story: TWO WIVES:

Get to know writer Joni Norby:

1) What is your very short story about?

The story is about a woman who learns about her husband’s double-life while attending a church service.

I’m fascinated with telling (and reading) short, concise pieces with a twist.

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

I was motivated to submit a piece after binge-watching last month’s wildsoundfestival winners on Twitter. I just wanted to be a part of this community.

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

My most watched movie is a toss-up between “Sense and Sensibility” and “Animal House.” I think I’ve memorized both movie scripts.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

I’ve written countless short stories and have had two published.

5) What artists would you love to work with?

I’d…

Watch the 140 Character Short Story: THE DANCE

Get to know writer Ashley Gamrat:

1. What is your very short story about?

This very short story is about the first dance between husband and wife on their wedding day.

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

I wrote this story for a contest on writing.com. Then i saw this pop up on twitter and thought why not give it a try.

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

My all time favorite movie is Young Frankenstein. We watch and rewatch movies all the time so that list would be pretty long.

4. How many scripts and stories have you written?

I just started getting back into writing about a year or so ago. More poetry than anything, but starting to work towards my first book. Few short stories here…

Watch BENNIALE, 140 Character Short Story:

Get to know writer Mikhail Zheleznikov:

1) What is your very short story about?

I guess, it’s about the idea of personal identity, which we might take too seriously sometimes.

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

Don’t really know) It just seemed challenging to write something that would fit in 140 characters.

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

I never counted, but most likely it was some of Woody Allen’s movies, maybe Deconstructing Harry.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

I’ve written a few short stories as a voice over commentary for my films, that’s it. But I’m trying to write my first real script now.

5) What artists would you love to work with?

It’s hard to tell before you actually meet them. People can be so…

Watch RINGSTONE, 140 Character Short Story:

Get to know writer Katie Sandberg:

1) What is your very short story about?

I knew that to connect with readers, there would have to be a universal theme, or at least a cliche, that could flash brightly. I chose mystery for the genre – maybe because I was in the midst of a Longmire binge on Netflix. So I typed a moment that might grab any of us in the amygdala.

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

I’ve made my living as a writer for a long time now, but it’s always been nonfiction: marketing, journalism and grant writing. I’m now doing grant writing 100%, so this was a delightful way to break up the finals week-style stress with some imaginative fun. What a great concept you’ve developed!

3) What movie have you seen the…

Watch the April 2016 Winning 140 Character Twitter Short Story.

THE BREAK UP by Gwen Winegar

Get to know writer Gwen Winegar:

1) What is your very short story about?

My story (as the title implies) is about a breakup.

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

I wrote it to express the agony involved in heartbreak. I submitted it because other people felt it was a great poem.

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

Back to the Future or The Faculty because I want to write about time travel and pod people.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

Dozens of poems, 1 script I am developing from a recurring dream and several short novels. I am currently developing a few novels in my favorite genre Paranormal/Fantasy Romance.

5) What artists would you love to work…