I am a transdisciplinary artist and playwright. thanks so much for the opportunity to present "Cupcake"!
Enjoy this play about not doing what you've been trained to do.
Dear Jaia Papitz and team,
Thank you for considering my unpublished piece, which is "A One-Act Entertainment with Musical Interludes." The opening scene appeared years ago in a dream; I have been returning to it ever since, teasing out its possible significance and expanding its reach.
Sincerely,
Daniel
www.danielarabuzzi.com
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, ditch digger and salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction, essays and plays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. His traditionally published books include 46 poetry collections, 19 novels, 4 short story collections, 2 collections of essays, 8 books of plays and 16 Poetry Chapbooks. Gary lives in New York City.
Dear Jaia Papitz, Much appreciated/enjoyed your June 19th interview with Trish Hopkinson. Here's hoping that my one act play suits : ""Work with a surprise factor... Finding a piece that arrives from nowhere and immediately changes the room. That moment when a submission does not ask permission, it simply begins to exist. " Below, too many words about me. I did try to sub this as a pdf , but it kept misloading, so I'm sending it as a doxx. True thanks! lsb
L. Shapley Bassen’s grandmother was a telegrapher on Wall Street a century ago who taught her to read and tapped messages to her in Morse Code. A New Yorker living in Rhode Island, she is a multi-published & prize-winning author of fiction, poetry, & drama.
First Place winner in the 2016 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2016-02-19/l-shapley-bassens-portra…
2025 novel Blue Monkeys (Shy City House, Chicago]
2025 novel How She Came to Know (Page Turner Books, Inc. North Carolina)
2014 novel Summer of the Long Knives (Typhoon Media- Signal 8)
2014 Lives of Crime & Other Stories (Texture Press)
2017 Showfolk & Stories (Inkception Books)
2019 collected works poetry What Suits a Nudist? (Clare Songbirds Publishing House)
1996 The Month Before the Moon (Samuel French, Inc. https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/1563/the-month-before-the-moon)
Fiction editor at https://www.craftliterary.com/.
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Ioana Cosma is a writer from Romania who has written five volumes of poetry published with Silver Bow in Canada, New Meridian Arts in The United States and The European Institute Press in Romania. Her novels – The Ones from Afar and Verse – have been published in Romania and her play was part of the JCTC festival in New Jersey. She teaches English at the University of Pitesti. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto.