Press
Toronto launch video
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009The good people at Gredunza Press attended our launch party in Toronto to meet with us and produce one of their video podcasts. Gredunza interviews folks in the writing and publishing community to create web programming about books. They spoke with 3-Day administrators and with Jason Rapczynski, our 2008 winner, and caught some of the performances by our host, Tate Young, and our first reader, Matthew J. Trafford.
“Definitely out of the ordinary”
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
“The 2008 winner The Videographer by New Haven resident Jason Rapczynski, 31, is definitely out of the ordinary. By page 10, the reader meets a guy with three fingers on one hand, meets a crooked cop, and learns that the narrator’s current trade is affixing cameras in rest-stop bathrooms on I-95 in the hope of catching people engaged in sex acts. And yes, the narrator’s boss posts the videos on the Internet … It works. The Videographer is the page-turner that won out over 427 other completed stories.”
David Riedel of the New Haven Advocate, an arts weekly, talks about the 3-Day experience and interviews 2008 winner Jason Rapczynski about his prize-taking novel. Read the whole article here.
Anxiety and the Unexpected
Monday, June 8th, 2009Marion Stein, a 2008 entrant, told the story of her 3-Day experience at the Narativ Storytelling Workshop in New York. She narrates a classic 3-Day experience…the agonies, ecstasies and surprising turns of events. It’s proof that you can never anticipate what kinds of things will come out of the contest. (And most past entrants will relate to the anxiety of waiting for the results - an unfortunate but usually unavoidable side-effect of the experience.)
Optimism and the Arts
Saturday, April 11th, 2009
John Kupferschmidt
The economic downturn may be an opportunity for aspiring writers and artists to enter the cultural life, says Maria Kubacki of CanWest News Service. (We concur—our first try at the 3-Day Novel Contest was right after the dot-com bust.) As part of a series on optimism, Kubacki interviewed our 2007 winner, John Kupferschmidt, on how web-driven writing events like 3-Day and Nano are helping people find their communities. Read the whole article at Canada.com.
Jason Rapczynski speaks with the New Haven Register
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Jason Rapczynski
A classic 3-Day Novel experience: “Seventy-two hours straight, a one-hour nap, no outline and a little inspiration from videos on YouTube.”
—The New Haven Register interviews 2008 winning 3-Day Novelist Jason Rapczynski about his preparation, his process and his soon-to-be-published novel. Read the whole article.
Selections of Past Press
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Select quotes and excerpts from news and articles about the International 3-Day Novel Contest:
The Ottawa Citizen interviews 2007 winner John Kupferschmidt.
Ron Yamauchi, a finalist and a contestant in Book Televsion’s televised version of the contest, writes about his experience on The Tyee.
“I cannot tell a lie–I loved the marathon of the 3-Day Novel Contest. It made me high. … And as well as my mojo, I got my faith back. No matter the length of the journey, what else is writing about if not faith?”
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