Posts Tagged ‘winners’
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.
Launch party and pep rally in Toronto
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Toronto launch party invite
Please join us for the launch of The Videographer, the latest contest-forged release from 3-Day Books, and for a celebration and pre-event rally for the upcoming 32nd Annual 3-Day Novel Contest on Labour Day weekend.
Thursday, August 27
7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
The Victory Cafe, Toronto
581 Markham Street, upstairs (Google Map)
Free admission, everyone welcome.
On-site contest registration available.
Featuring
Jason Rapczynski, winner of the 31st Annual 3-Day Novel Contest.
Special guests Matthew J. Trafford, writer and veteran of the 3-Day Novel Contest reality TV series, and 3-Day staff and veterans to offer advice to potential contest entrants.
Hosted by Tate Young, poet, producer of the 3-Day Novel Contest reality TV series and former cross-country pink ambulance driver.
Expect readings, door prizes, a 3-Day Q&A with staff, survivors and winners, and general fun and encouragement for entrants and hopeful entrants to this Labour Day weekend’s 32nd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest.
Contact: info@3daynovel.com
Facebookers: RSVP to the event!
Bios
Jason Rapczynski won the 31st International 3-Day Novel Contest with The Videographer, a tale of the naive dreamers and web-addled stunt junkies of the digital generation. Jason earned his MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in 2005, and now works as a writer and bookseller. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Matthew J. Trafford works with Deaf college students in Toronto. His poetry, reviews, and stories have appeared in journals across Canada. His fiction has twice been short-listed for the CBC Literary Prize, received an Honourable Mention at the National Magazine Awards, and won the Far Horizons Award from the Malahat Review.
Tate Young is the director/producer who thought that dropping 3-Day Novel writers in a giant bookstore on the western hinterlands and filming them for live broadcast and a television series would be a good idea. Twice. Obviously a twisted sadist, he’s also a poet who once drove a pink ambulance across the country to promote his alter-ego’s inflammatory book of verse.
“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.
Brendan McLeod on Tour
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Brendan McLeod
You may have missed our 2006 winner Brendan McLeod this past February, when he let passers-by on the streets of downtown Vancouver tackle him for a dollar for charity. But you can still catch him out and about across Canada this spring and summer. He’ll be touring with his band, The Fugitives, with his new two-man kids-show-for-grownups, Awesome Face, and on his own in several solo SLAM shows.
Find upcoming tour dates and locations at his MySpace page. Don’t miss a chance to see this fantastic performer! And get him to sign your copy of The Convictions of Leonard McKinley while you’re there.
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