Austen Brauker
 Austen Brauker
"HOMUNCULUS" A screenplay by Austen Brauker
Grand Prize Winner of the 2011 Oregon Film Festival, Best Overall Screenplay (All Categories).
Best Horror Screenplay, Love Unlimited International Film Festival.
Official Finalist, Hollywood Screenplay Contest.
Official Finalist, Newport International Film Festival, Wales.
Semi-finalist, PAGE Awards Screenplay Competition.
Currently: Official Finalist, STORY PROS Screenplay Contest.
Currently: Fifth Round Winner, Movie Script Contest - The Golden Brad Awards
Honorable Mention: 2011 Chicago Screenwriters Network Contest and 2011 Great Lakes International Film Festival.
Screenplay, "White Buffalo" was picked up in 2011 for production by Wild Horse Films, through Inktip.
Both “Homunculus” and “White Buffalo” have received positive coverage feedback from several sources.
Honorable Mention Award for Live Script Reading Performance, Beyond Baroque Theater, Love Unlimited Film Festival, Venice Ca.
Dark Matter Magazine, Best Fiction Writer Award 2011.
Hardcopy Published Work:
Voices on the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now, ISBN: 978-0-9840179-0-4
The Zharmae Anthology: Ends of Man, Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-937365-00-4
Mega Era: Issue #27 Perfect Paperback, ASIN: B002ACNFC6
Dark Matter Magazine, 2009, 2010, 2011.
2011 Annual Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Writing Anthology
The Copperfield Review
Motley Press: Vol. One, Issue Two
Motley Press: Issue Four
Aquill Relle: Magazine Four
221 B Magazine: Summer Issue 2011
E-zine Articles
Indict Circle: Issue #25
The Taking of Wings: Lulu
Online Publications:
The Cortland Review, Author Me- Editor, Anthologies Online- Featured Author, ABC Tales- Cherry Picked Author, Writers Pub, Nice Stories, VerbSap, One of Us Creative Writing, We Read, Poets and Writers Speakeasy, Fantasy Writers, The Online Writer, Suite 101, Every Poet Showcase, E-Zine Articles, The Free Library, Post Articles, Writer’s Relief, We Book , My Book Live, Smashwords, Author’s Den, Booksie, Free Stories Center, Writing.Com ,Writer’s net , Writer’s Café
Austen is the author of two full length fiction novels, several theatrical plays, much poetry and regular newspaper articles at three separate publications in Michigan. Two of his short plays, “Crocophile” and “Look What the Cat Dragged In,” have been produced by West Shore College, where he has also was published in Dark Matter, as best fiction writer for 2008. His work has won several writing competitions and is posted at various places on the internet, on writer’s sites and bookselling sources. He has been printed in numerous hard copy anthologies.
Austen currently works as a Peacemaker/Probation Officer at the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Tribal Justice Center and as an artist, painting murals, like the well known piece at the entrance of the Willows restaurant at the Little River Casino and Resort. He has been commissioned by the Mt. Pleasant Public Schools to create eight 5’x5’ stained glass windows for two of their elementary schools. He creates many different traditional native crafts and various other forms of visual art. His work was used by the National Congress of the American Indian for the N.C.A.I. conference logo in 2011 and the original hangs at their embassy in Washington D.C.
Interests: Austen is a long time musician and has performed regularly since he started playing music over twenty eight years ago. Austen plays many different styles of music on acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, lap steel and slide blue
Published writer: Yes
Freelance: No |
