Posts Tagged ‘winners’
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.)
Under Surveillance: a special NYC event
Monday, September 7th, 2009Have you ever felt you were being watched? It may not be paranoia. In celebration of our latest release, the world’s most notorious literary marathon brings you a special night of storytelling, featuring two very different perspectives on the art of spying in New York.
Details:
Saturday, September 19, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Free admission
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St., New York
RSVP to the Facebook event.
FEATURING
Loud People
Loud People by Todd Lamb
3-Day presents a rare screening of Loud People, a short series by Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker Todd Lamb. Loud People features actual overhead NYC cell phone conversations, re-enacted by comedians from 4Track improv and set to music by Tortoise. Over the course of a year, Lamb and his assistants eavesdropped on and transcribed more than 100 conversations to find the bizarre and very real moments featured in this hilarious piece. With an introduction by George Basil, a member of 4Track and a regular performer at the Magnet Theater.
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The Videographer
The Videographer by Jason Rapczynski
Jason Rapczynski reads from The Videographer, the newly released winner of the 31st Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest. The Videographer follows a film-school dropout who finds work taping street fights and setting up spy cams in I-95 rest stops. His plans to escape the grasp of his enigmatic boss are sent spinning when a pre-teen runaway shows up at his door, claiming to be his daughter. As her arrival triggers a series of events that are eerily similar to a script he wrote years earlier, the videographer must uncover the truth about who is really under surveillance.
Hosted by Lila MacLellan, NY freelance writer and editor and MFA student at the New School.
Survivors of the 32nd Annual 3-Day Novel Contest are encouraged to come out! This is a great opportunity to meet up with fellow entrants and compare experiences.
Contact: info@3daynovel.com
New Haven reading and post-contest meetup
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Reading at the Yale Bookstore
The Yale Bookstore is hosting a reading by 2008 winner Jason Rapczynski on Sept. 9. It’s a great opportunity to meet up with fellow entrants from the New Haven area after the contest. You can debrief with Jason and other survivors and share your experiences - and also hear a little bit of The Videographer, a great 3-Day novel!
Details:
Wednesday, Sept. 9, 6 p.m.
The Yale Bookstore, Yale University
77 Broadway, New Haven, 203-777-8440
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.
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