Me! I am happy to announce that my short-form screenplay, Grow Old With Me, has been named a finalist in the Imaginarium film festival screenplay competition. I am told that there were more entries this year than they’ve ever had, and I am truly honored to be among the finalists. The screenplay is based on…
Category: awards
Schedule for Imaginarium announced
I’m delighted to return to Imaginarium again, and I’m doing a bunch of workshops this year! At noon Friday, I’m teaching “The Art of Legal Prostitution: Selling Your Books at Cons and Signings” (RM Calumet). At 8 p.m., I’ll be on a panel discussing the ethics of AI across all media. I’m quite sure they’ll…
The One Where Elizabeth Wins
I’m honored to share that I’ve been awarded an AWP Community Scholarship to attend the 2024 conference in Kansas City. I was lucky to attend last year’s conference in Seattle, and I absolutely loved it. AWP is one hell of a conference, with about 25 panels per hour aimed for writers and writing programs. It’s…
It’s an honor to be…
… and that’s not sarcasm. It really is an honor just to be nominated. In all the flurry of my travels this month, I neglected to blog about being named a finalist for the Michael Knost Wings Award. Locus has a write-up about the shortlist, which is the second part of this I didn’t expect….
And the winner is…
Me! I’m pleased (almost) beyond words to announce I have been honored with the Mimi Zanger Award for fiction writing. This is an award granted by the English Department at Southern Illinois University, where I have begun my coursework for an MFA in creative writing (in case you’ve missed all the other references to my…