MARY CARROLL HACKETTHer first collection of short stories, What the Potter Said, was released in July 2005. She sold her first screenplay in 1999, and has just recently had a short script optioned by Blend Productions of New York. Since June 2006, her scripts have won or placed (semi-finalist or finalist) in the following competitions: Great Lakes Film Festival, Beaufort Film Festival, Moondance, American Gem Short Script (2006 & 2007), Acclaim TV, Gimme Credit Short Script, The Writers Place, and the PAGE Awards. She currently directs Creative Writing at Longwood University in Farmville, VA, where she founded and edits The Dos Passos Review and Briery Creek Press. She also founded and administers The Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry with Briery Creek Press. She has recently completed a feature length script entitled The Fisherman's Daughter, a different take on the Second Coming, and is at work on another feature length exploring how adult daughters deal with an aging mother's need for independence.
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