Eben Reilly: BTW4

Saturday, February 18, 2006

BTW4

BTW... yesterday I met with over 200 teens in two different schools to talk not only about how my son Ben and I wrote Daughter Dedannan, but to remind you all to take your own artistic impulses seriously. You'll be surprised how far you can go! Many of you shared your interest in writing with me: journals, comic books, mysteries, poetry, song lyrics, stories! There's a wealth of talent out there. Thanks for a fun day & keep writing!

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At 5:36 PM , Anonymous said...: I was one of the kids in Castleton you talked to about your book, I wanted to read it the second we got out of the presentation! I think this blog is a good way for teens to express there feelngs for poetry and other reading type things!

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Name: Eben Reilly

Location: Bomoseen/Brooklyn, Vermont/NY, United States

For many years I wrote for my kids growing up: stories, poems, until they started telling me stories back, and then I embarked on a career of collaboration-- most recently writing WOLF with my 16 year old son Ben. Currently our path has shifted from fiction to theater. After having adapted the first half of WOLF to the stage, and winning the Vermont Playwrights award (see blog), I've returned to writing drama-- my first love in graduate school where I earned an MFA in playwriting. Right now I have three plays out for submission and am working on a fourth with Ben entitled Notes from the Lower East Side. Our fiction projects still haunt me-- and by winter I will return to my copious mental notes, but this summer is all about telling tales through dialogue. (Being a born New YOrker,dialogue is my first passion anyway.) Thanks to the Valley Players for the Award, and to my kids for their ongoing creative input and inspiration!

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