A group of authors have teamed up for the Writing Off Script: Writers on the Influence of Cinema digital anthology, a book of essays raising money for the Joplin Schools Tornado Relief Fund.
The authors (listed below) will write essays on how movies have influenced their work. Follow this link to read an essay from the collection. Cynthia Hawkins will edit the anthology and Simon Smithson of Calavera Books will publish it on December 1st.
Here’s more about the fundraiser: “[Proceeds] will go to the Joplin Eagles Television 14 Program through the Joplin Schools Tornado Relief Fund. The JET 14 Program instructs 160 students each school year in the fundamentals of film production and broadcasting. During the F-5 tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011, 54% of Joplin’s students lived in the path of the tornado, eight schools including the city’s high school were destroyed or significantly damaged, and one teacher and seven students were killed.”
The book will include essays by Robin Antalek, Matthew Baldwin, Sean Beaudoin, Ernessa T. Carter, Richard Cox, Elizabeth Eslami, D. R. Haney, Nathan Larson, Vernon Lott, Nathaniel Missildine, Greg Olear, Neal Pollack, and Claude Clayton Smith. It will also feature interviews by Patrick deWitt, Art Edwards, David Small, Simon Smithson, and Teddy Wayne.
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this post misidentified the interview portion of the book.