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Watch the 140 Character Short Story: CHANCER

Get to know writer Paul Streetly:

1) What is your very short story about?

Risk, trust & perhaps romance within the underground

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

Love of economical writing, the Caribbean Sea & Hemingway’s fabled shortest story ever

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

Maybe a Luc Besson one like Subway, Leon or the Big blue

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

No scripts yet, maybe fifty or a hundred stories

5) What artists would you love to work with?

Banksy, Alyssa Monks, the artists from Archaos, Aphex Twin

6) What is your passion in life?

Arts, music & action born out of Trinidad & Tobago Carnival

7) Any tips for other writers who want to write a 140 character short story?

Leave it…

Watch the 140 Character Short Story: FLASH FICTION

Get to know writer Pam Blackthorne:

1) What is your very short story about?

It¹s about a person who¹s exploring new places, thinking the world is a
happy, safe place. Only after all light is extinguished do they realize
they¹ve taken a wrong turn, and now it¹s too late to go back. Who knows
what¹s ahead?

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

I get the biggest kick out of flash fiction. I¹ve told a few stories in
100 words or less. One was published. The 140-character limit really
appealed to me. It takes real skill to tell a compelling story in very few
words.

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

The Shipping News. It helped me get beyond my divorce.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

Watch 140 Character Short Story: LIFE IS BUT A DREAM

Get to know writer Brian O’Flaherty:

1) What is your very short story about?

The story is about having a life altering experience, which brings about a realization; a realization that changes the narrator forever. The realization is that one’s mind creates one’s reality, which is experienced as a contrast of opposites, the meaning of which the narrator must decide.
That’s it in a nutshell.

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

I’m in the process of submitting a feature screenplay to the festival, which caused me to receive emails, where I was then informed about the Twitter festival. It seemed like a fun idea.

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

Return of the Jedi.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

I am in the…

Watch 140 Character Short Story: A FINAL EFFORT OF GOODNESS

Get to know writer MJ Brewer:

1) What is your very short story about?

My story is about those times when we struggle to help someone else and the efforts are futile.

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

I’ve never written anything this short before, and I felt it would be fun. It was fun, but it was a bigger challenge than I had anticipated. The ability to write,
explain, and evoke emotion in an extremely short frame is more taxing than one might typically assume.

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

I’m unclear of this question, but I believe you’re asking the types of movies I typically watch. Sometimes when my emotions become flat-lined, I’ll watch The
Notebook or P.S. I Love You. But that is…

Watch the 140 Character Short Story: THE VIOLINIST OF MOSUL

Get to know writer Paul MacAlindin:

See writer’s upcoming book: @upbeat_book

1) What is your very short story about?

I’m the Music Director of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq

http://www.youtube.com/user/nyoiinfo

The violinist is one of my players who, being a Christian, was forced to get out of Mosul last June when they invaded. He made it into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq where he was supported by other players from the orchestra. He now teaches music at a school there. Nobody is really safe in Iraq at the moment, but he is, at least, resettled and safer.

He is one of the gentlest, kindest people in the orchestra, as well as being a very fine player who, like many, managed to teach himself violin without any teachers, by learning from masterclasses on YouTube.

2) What motivated you to write…

Watch the 140 Character Short Story: LOVE RIVER

Get to know writer CF Lane:

1) What is your very short story about?

Our story is about love and heartbreak. My sister and I collaborated on this story – I hope we can be the Coen Brothers of sisters!

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

I wanted to try to write a story THAT short.

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

It would have to be Goodfellas. Every time I come across it on TV, I simply cannot click away and must watch it in all of it’s nuanced genius.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

I’ve written a few stories in my life, countless expository video scripts for clients (I run a video production company,) but just starting out to write my own narrative…

1st CHAPTER and FULL NOVEL FESTIVAL
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Watch “Large is the Smallest We’ve Got” by Jed Hamilton

Synopsis:

An unlikely mix of people, thrown together by the LA Earthquake, 1994.
A story of love lost and found…
A story of greed and corruption. ….
A story about a phoney ghost-hunter show… and a dog that looks like a panda.

Genre: Religion, Spiritual, Rhyme

Power
by Verletta Kyer

As a woman of God the enemy hates to see you grow.

He doesn’t like your victory and neither the spiritual flow.

Power is given to the swift and the strong.

Power is given to those that are racing towards God’s throne.

Many are reaching and leaping high for life eternity.

Power will cause you to forget about everything else and walk into your destiny.

Power to the people upward and down.

Power will cause you to put God first for level ground.

Power can go many ways.

Never forget Jesus paved the way for a brighter day.

Power gave us a brother from another mother.

Power to risk His life and in three days rose there’s no other.

If you’ve been given power for eternal life.

Hold on because Jesus already won the fight.

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Deadline: FREE…

GENRE: Life, Contentment

Under a Lemon Tree
by Osman Welela

I hear a tinkling,
A sound part gurgling,
As water laughs in a fountain unseen,
While I rest my head with a lean
On the rough skin of a wood
I sit under with a contented mood.
Afternoon crawls past with my unwanted needs,
And I watch through cracked lids
The thousand stars that shine in the light of day,
Which sunlight makes as it splinters past leafs in its way.
Beyond my green roof and in the distant sky,
Clouds appear like hills that fly;
While a playful air blows past my face,
Bringing the smell of lemons from above and coolness from a distant place,
The heavens change in a slow dance to their distant part,
In a riot of colors as they make a timeless art.
I sigh, satisfied,
Spending thus my afternoon at hand,
For what…

Upcoming Writing Festival Deadlines. Now showcasing at least 15-25 winning readings a month.

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