Marie Wilson
Bio
Harper Collins published my novel "The Gorgeous Girls". My feature film screenplay "Sideshow Bandit" has won several awards at film festivals. I have a new feature film screenplay called "A Girl Like I" and it's looking for a producer.
Stories (87/0)
The Squall
As I open the old journal, an aroma flutters from its pages - not mold, not must, but love gone sour, the ripe odour of hate. Yet the book seems untouched: its pages as white and pristine as the snow falling outside. Riffling, I glimpse his scrawl in the middle, and there it is: the stench of his inky invectives.
By Marie Wilson4 months ago in Fiction
This Crazy Tumble
“Only connect", the novelist EM Forster wrote. His character (Margaret in Howard's End) was suggesting a union of "passion and prose" (or the inner and outer life), but those two words - only connect - have become a rallying cry for the 21st century, expressing the importance of people relating to one another in an increasingly fragmented world.
By Marie Wilson4 months ago in Writers
- Top Story - January 2024
The Way I Wear My HatTop Story - January 2024
I sat with my hats today, trying to decide their homes. If you hang your hats on a wall, there’s joy in seeing their style & grace: the fabrics, feathers, buttons & bows! But also - some hats attract so much dust that when you take them off the hook to wear to the Easter Parade, they make you sneeze & cough.
By Marie Wilson5 months ago in Styled
The Accidental Novelist
I never intended to write a novel. But I did. And HarperCollins published it. Titled The Gorgeous Girls, it was based on a number of pieces I'd written for Toronto's NOW magazine; they appeared in NOW's feature Naked City, which was all about love and sex.
By Marie Wilson7 months ago in Chapters
Walter Kist & the Seven Whorls Chapter 12
I tried rocking the chair but it stood solid as the oak tree it came from. I managed to make a little noise by tapping my embellished tai chi shoes on the floor. But I suspected the tiny taps were wasted on the Limboland ghosts below.
By Marie Wilson7 months ago in Chapters
Walter Kist & the Seven Whorls Chapter 11
While Irma concentrated on makeup removal I worked my dad’s tie behind the chair. I feared that once she got a good look at me sans whiteface, Kist’s photo of the silver queen would materialize before her eyes and then it would turn into a double whammy revenge mission.
By Marie Wilson7 months ago in Chapters
- Top Story - October 2023