#143 James McClure
James McClure is an award-winning writer, journalist, scholar and undergraduate instructor. In 2018, James\u2019 newest play, Glass Closets, was chosen to be workshopped at Mount Allison University as part of the 2018 Playwrights\u2019 Colony hosted by the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre. 'Glass Closets' is his second Fundy Fringe Festival production. In 2017, he wrote and directed \u2018Faking It,\u2019 a coming-of-age comedy that was also one of three winners in the Saint John Theatre Company\u2019s playwrighting competition \u2018Script Happens.\u2019
James also writes poems, short stories and novels. In 2018, his unpublished YA novel Playing like a Girl was the first runner-up for the David Adams Richards Prize awarded by the Writers Federation of New Brunswick. Judge Michelle Butler Hallett praised the manuscript as \u201cpolished YA fiction\u201d and noted that \u201cthe first-person narration is especially skillful.\u201d
James currently works as the editor of Civilized.life - a cannabis culture and lifestyle website. Previously, he pursued a doctoral degree in English at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Shakespearean drama.
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