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{"id":1527,"date":"2019-03-17T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2019-03-17T20:54:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T20:54:38","slug":"new-project-writers-west-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=1527&lang=ar","title":{"rendered":"New project for writers in West Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The interview show will be filmed at the Hotel Settles in Big Spring and feature Parks interviewing local poets, novelists, short story writers, and songwriters. Produced in cooperation with Kathryn Copeland of the Permian Basin Poetry Society, the show is directed by award-winning filmmaker James Fite<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Tom Parks has been a writer and an educator and now a television host. \u201cIn Search of the West Texas Wordsmith\u201d will begin airing at 3 p.m. on Saturdays starting May 4.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The idea came from watching \u201cCentral Texas Gardener\u201d every Saturday at noon, Parks told the Odessa American<\/em>. \u2018\u201cIt\u2019s out of Austin and it\u2019s on PBS. I\u2019ve enjoyed watching it and I thought, \u2018What about West Texas?\u2019 We don\u2019t have that many gardens as they have in Austin,\u201d Parks said. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>However, Parks said he knew of at least three strong, active writers\u2019 organizations. \u201cSo I thought … that would be a good topic … to interview a different writer every week, so I … pursued it from there and went to the Marie Hall Foundation for possible funding,\u201d Parks said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The foundation was interested in the show. Parks applied and was funded for $20,000. \u201cIt\u2019s a good strong start that will pay for thirteen weekly episodes, which is sort of a season in television. We\u2019re hoping to get funding for thirteen more,\u201d Parks said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u200bThe executive director of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Basin PBS television<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>, Laura Wolf, has viewed the pilot episode and committed to broadcasting the entire series on weekends. She commented that the series is likely to be picked up by PBS stations in El Paso and other locales around Texas. The current estimate of Basin PBS viewership is 340,000 weekly.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Parks\u2019s first interview is with Gardendale novelist Ann Swann. Swann said the fourth book in her Phantoms series, Stevie-Girl and the Phantom of Forever<\/em>, was released this week by 5 Prince Books. She said it\u2019s a \u201cclean, teen read.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Other interviews Parks has lined up include songwriter Harry Nutter; poet Loretta Diane Walker; non-fiction and fiction author Glen Aaron; science fiction writer Joshua Simpson; writer, journalist, editor, and publisher Mark McDonald; self-help counseling writer Stephanie Moses; and Copeland, an activist and advocate of the arts.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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When the process for the show started, Basin PBS didn\u2019t have a studio. They got one, but it was under construction, so Parks said he wrote a letter to the owner of the Hotel Settles and asked him if they could do all the filming there and give the owner credit at the end. The owner thought it would be a good swap and Parks said it\u2019s worked very well. \u201cThey\u2019ve been totally cooperative,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u200b\u201cWe are looking for West Texas writers to interview on camera in every genre,\u201d said series host Tom Parks, \u201cincluding novelists, poets, songwriters, journalists, playwrights, screen writers \u2013 fiction and non-fiction.\u201d He\u2019s currently looking for a children\u2019s book author and short story writer. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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