Posts Tagged ‘Press’
The Vancouver Sun on Jan Underwood
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
The Vancouver Sun
Rebecca Wigod, the books editor at the Vancouver Sun, joined Jan Underwood, Will Ferguson, Kathy Buckworth, T.J. Dawe, Hal Wake and other great writers and thinkers to discuss the art and craft of humour writing at the 2010 Symposium on the Book at the SFU Summer Publishing Workshops in Vancouver. In this week’s Saturday Sun, Wigod talks about the event, and about Jan’s presentation on the 11 principles of good written humour.
(If you want to see Jan put her 11 principles to work, grab a copy of Day Shift Werewolf, her very funny 2005 winning 3-Day Novel entry.)
Eccentrically We Love
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010The Fugitives, that “anything but ordinary” band featuring 2006 3-Day Novel winner Brendan McLeod, have released a new album, Eccentrically We Love. In this interview with Brendan in Vancouver’s Georgia Straight, he talks about his literary efforts and those of his bandmates, and how their writing and poetry eventually morphed into their unique slam-poetry-performance-music style.
Find their new album at the Fugitives’ website, read about Brendan’s winning 3-Day Novel, and check out the video for their great single “Breaking Promises”.
Interviews with Mark Sedore
Monday, May 24th, 2010
Snowmen by Mark Sedore
This link roundup for Mark Sedore, last year’s 3-Day Novel Contest winner, is a little late (the articles mostly ran in February), but it’s been a bit of a nutty season here at 3-Day HQ. To inspire you for this year’s contest (registration will open in about a week!), read this “how to” interview with Mark in the Torontoist, or these interviews in U of T’s the Varsity or the creatively named the Newspaper. Then go ahead and check out his winning novel!
3-Day Novel: The Series, season two
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
BookTelevision
The long-awaited second season of 3-Day Novel Contest: The Series will finally air tonight (8:30 pm ET, Tuesday, Nov. 3) on BookTelevision. During the 2007 International 3-Day Novel Contest, 12 entrants were holed up in a Chapters bookstore in Edmonton and filmed live while they sweated their way through their novels, along with several other tortures dreamed up by the producers.
The footage has been made into a 7-episode series, and if it’s anything like the first season, you won’t believe how compelling it can be to watch people write. Seriously. Tonight’s episode will also repeat Wednesday, Nov. 4, and the other 6 will follow the same weekly schedule. Check it out at BookTelevision.com.
ForeWord magazine on The Videographer
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
The Videographer by Jason Rapczynski
ForeWord This Week (OK, not quite this week, but we’ve been very busy at 3-Day HQ) interviews Jason Rapczynski on his preparation and process in producing The Videographer, the 2008 winning entry.
“In the weeks leading up to the contest I had been watching a lot of YouTube videos—car wrecks and street fights and amateur stunts gone horribly wrong. So I sat down with an idea about a character who maybe films this stuff for a living… [And] what if this character, who’s involved in all these shady dealings, was to find out that he was a father? Those two ideas were pretty much the matrix for the plot.” (Read the full interview.)
“Because You Have To”
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
The Stranger newspaper
Paul Constant at The Stranger interviews a few 3-Day novelists on their experiences doing the contest and on what to do next, and puts forward the more-complicated-than-it-sounds idea that aspiring writers need to sit down and write.
“Contests like the 3-Day Novel Contest and the much less competitive National Novel Writing Month in November do a genuine, generous service for aspiring authors by providing compelling (if entirely artificial) deadlines and introducing them to the concept that words and ideas are easy to come by (and equally easy to abandon) in the quest for a novel.” (Read the full story.)
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