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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elinora Westfall (born 7 December 1987) is a writer of stage, screen, fiction, poetry, and radio from the UK. Her novel, Everland, was selected for the Penguin and Random House WriteNow Editorial Programme, and her short films have been selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions, Cannes Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Camden Fringe Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, while her theatre and audio shows have been selected by The British Library and performed in London's West End and on Broadway, where she won the award for Best Monologue. Her latest collection of poetry, Life in the Dressing Room of the Theatre is published by Vine Leaves Press.
Early life
Elinora Westfall was born in Woodbirdge, Suffolk, and attended Farlingaye High School.
Growing up, Westfall was heavily influenced by the music of David Bowie and the novels, diaries, letters, and essays of Virginia Woolf, in particular Mrs Dalloway, The Letters of Vita Sackville West and Virginia Woolf, and A Room of One's Own.
Literary career
After working in a bookshop as a teenager, Elinora Westfall went on to publish her first collection of poetry, Some of Her Parts', a nod to the fictional character, Jenny Schecter from The L Word. Westfall then went on to study Creative Writing and English Literature through the Open University, while simultaneously raising her two children and working full-time as a freelance writer.
Westfall then went on to write her first novella, The Art of Almost, and quickly progressed from fiction and poetry to writing radio plays such as Runner Beans and Inner Peace and plays for theatre, such as A Girl Called Dusty, a play inspired by the private life of singer, Dusty Springfield.
Westfall's collection of poetry, Life in the Dressing Room of the Theatre was published in 2023 by Vine Leaves Press.
Other activities
Westfall is also an artist, with her paintings and drawings published in various arts journals and exhibitions worldwide.
Elinora Westfall is the editor-in-chief of Elsker Publishing House, home to literary and arts journal, Vita & the Woolf.
Honours and awards
FRENCH BEANS & INNER PEACE - Selected by BBC UPLOAD as part of their partnership with The British Library, collecting audio pieces for a special digital archive at The British Library which captures how people across England responded to the Pandemic.
EVERLAND - Middle-grade novel selected for the Penguin and Random House WriteNow Editorial Programme.
I AM WINTER - Selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions, Cannes Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Think Shorts, and SonderBlu Festival.
CONFESSIONS: THE HOURS (Play) - Winner of the Full Stack KDC Theatre's Playwriting Competition. Performed at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, London in June 2021. Also selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions.
A TERRIBLE THING HAS HAPPENED - Winner of the Living History Short Story Award.
MEMORIES OF A MERMAID - Second-place award at the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.
CONFESSIONS: THE HOURS (Monologue) - Winner of the Best Monologue Award, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York.
THE ART OF ALMOST - A literary novella short-listed for the Secret Attic Short Story Award, and the Lambda Literary Award.
MERIVALE AND WAR’S ORPHAN & THE SOUND OF SILENCE - Long-listed for the New Welsh Review writing contest.
COAL TO BURN THE WORLD - Winner of the Creative Writing Ink Competition October 2021.
HOW SHE KILLS - Selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions, SonderBlu Festival. THE ROSES AND THE WEEDS - Received an honorable mention by Wordruner eChapbooks. ANONYMOUS WAS A WOMAN - Collected short stories by Elinora Westfall shortlisted by Wordrunner eChapbooks 2021.
FRENCH BEANS & INNER PEACE - Comedy monologue shortlisted by Madwomen Monologues by Baggage Productions, Melbourne. WAR’S ORPHAN & THE SOUND OF SILENCE - Pushcart Prize nominee. WHAT REMAINS - Nominated for the Small Press Fiction Award 2022.
Film, Theatre and Radio
LOVE, MARY (theatre) - DYSPLA & Hat Trick Productions finalist 2022. THE ART OF ALMOST - Performed at Heller Theatre, April 2022. HOW SHE KILLS - Performed by SLAMMinutes does Mental Health at the Pleasance Theatre, London in 2022. FRENCH BEANS & INNER PEACE - Aired on Eclectic Theatre’s Half Hour Audio Hour. EVERLAND - Commissioned 8-part BBC Radio Drama. Available as an audiobook on Spotify, iTunes, Anchor, and various other audio streaming services. CONFESSIONS: THE HOURS - Multi-award-winning short film adapted for stage and performed at Thornhill Theatre, London, and Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, where it won the award for Best Monologue. Confessions also featured on Broadway during Winterfest in November 2021 and was selected by Fillum International Storical & Short Film Festival (FISSF), QueerBee Festival, Festival Genders & Performances, Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions. THE SUDDENNESS OF QUIET - Short film selected by Madeira Curtas Short Films Contest (Madeira Island), Think Shorts, Pinewood Studios and Lift-Off Sessions. I AM WINTER - A multi-award-winning short film selected by FFilm Cymru Wales Lesbian & Bisexual Women’s Festival. Available on LesFlicks VOD Streaming Service and Think Shorts. I Am Winter was also selected by REDMOON Film Festival, Pinewood Studios, Lift-Off Sessions and was used as a promotional piece by the Broxtowe Women’s Project. TIG & LOMSTER - Children’s audiobook aired on BBC Radio and performed by Nick Knowles for the MFPT Big Shout Out Festival. A TERRIBLE THING HAS HAPPENED - Audio short story performed by Emmerdale's Samantha Giles for the BBC Upload Festival 2021 and performed on BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Radio Sussex. CECILY & THE DRAGON - Children’s story performed by Nick Knowles for the children of the NHS workers at the MPFT Big Shout Out Festival. HOW SHE KILLS - Performed at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester. Also developed by Queer Colors Theatre.
Various other spoken word pieces and short theatre shows have been selected by Heller Theatre’s Sunday Serials project, aired on BBC Radio (Essex, Kent, London, Wales, Scotland, Sussex, Brighton, Oxford, Suffolk, and Norfolk), Litro Podcast, The Sheepshead Review, After Ellen, The Bitchin' Kitsch, PodPlay, Poetry Spoken Here and Open Mic of the Air.
Work Published in Literary Journals Worldwide
Poetry Salzburg, Medium, The Sheepshead Review, Acumen, Rattle, Stand, Every Day Fiction, Sylvia Magazine, Obsessed with Pipework, Crannog Native Skin, The Mighty, Yahoo News, The Gay and Lesbian Review, New Welsh Review, Gaze, Open Journal of Arts & Letters, The Thing Itself, Shorts Magazine, Think Shorts, Litro, Litro US, Flash Fiction Magazine, Macromic, Fictional Cafe, Twenty-Two Twenty Eight, Swimm, Havik, The Nabu Review, Ponder, The Nervous Breakdown, Love in the Time of Covid, Hamilton Stone Review, Secret Attic, Prismatica, The Poetry Question, Crow Toes, Abergavenny Press, Zoetic Press, Bandit Fiction, Processing Crisis, Harpy Hybrid, Storm Cellar, The Ilanot Review, 805 Lit, Bitter Fruit, Pure Slush, Carolina Muse, The Bookends Review, Red Eft, The Bitchin' Kitsch, The Wire, New Plains Review, Green Ink, Ink Sweat & Tears, Orca, GHLL, ELJ Editions, Kin Literary Journal, Sinister Wisdom, Marble, Derailleur, Third Lane Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Smoke, Breath and Shadow, Passengers, Peeking Cat, Agapanthus, Derailleur, Poetry Magazine, Leading Edge Magazine, Avatar, Aayona Magazine, The Avenue, Cerasus, Barzakh, Processing Crisis, Masque & Spectacle, Mindfull, Cerasus, Subterranean Blue, Other-Worldly Women, Beyond Words and many more.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elinora Westfall (born 7 December 1987) is a writer of stage, screen, fiction, poetry, and radio from the UK. Her novel, Everland, was selected for the Penguin and Random House WriteNow Editorial Programme, and her short films have been selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions, Cannes Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Camden Fringe Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, while her theatre and audio shows have been selected by The British Library and performed in London's West End and on Broadway, where she won the award for Best Monologue. Her latest collection of poetry, Life in the Dressing Room of the Theatre is published by Vine Leaves Press.
Early life
Elinora Westfall was born in Woodbirdge, Suffolk, and attended Farlingaye High School.
Growing up, Westfall was heavily influenced by the music of David Bowie and the novels, diaries, letters, and essays of Virginia Woolf, in particular Mrs Dalloway, The Letters of Vita Sackville West and Virginia Woolf, and A Room of One's Own.
Literary career
After working in a bookshop as a teenager, Elinora Westfall went on to publish her first collection of poetry, Some of Her Parts', a nod to the fictional character, Jenny Schecter from The L Word. Westfall then went on to study Creative Writing and English Literature through the Open University, while simultaneously raising her two children and working full-time as a freelance writer.
Westfall then went on to write her first novella, The Art of Almost, and quickly progressed from fiction and poetry to writing radio plays such as Runner Beans and Inner Peace and plays for theatre, such as A Girl Called Dusty, a play inspired by the private life of singer, Dusty Springfield.
Westfall's collection of poetry, Life in the Dressing Room of the Theatre was published in 2023 by Vine Leaves Press.
Other activities
Westfall is also an artist, with her paintings and drawings published in various arts journals and exhibitions worldwide.
Elinora Westfall is the editor-in-chief of Elsker Publishing House, home to literary and arts journal, Vita & the Woolf.
Honours and awards
FRENCH BEANS & INNER PEACE - Selected by BBC UPLOAD as part of their partnership with The British Library, collecting audio pieces for a special digital archive at The British Library which captures how people across England responded to the Pandemic.
EVERLAND - Middle-grade novel selected for the Penguin and Random House WriteNow Editorial Programme.
I AM WINTER - Selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions, Cannes Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Think Shorts, and SonderBlu Festival.
CONFESSIONS: THE HOURS (Play) - Winner of the Full Stack KDC Theatre's Playwriting Competition. Performed at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, London in June 2021. Also selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions.
A TERRIBLE THING HAS HAPPENED - Winner of the Living History Short Story Award.
MEMORIES OF A MERMAID - Second-place award at the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.
CONFESSIONS: THE HOURS (Monologue) - Winner of the Best Monologue Award, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York.
THE ART OF ALMOST - A literary novella short-listed for the Secret Attic Short Story Award, and the Lambda Literary Award.
MERIVALE AND WAR’S ORPHAN & THE SOUND OF SILENCE - Long-listed for the New Welsh Review writing contest.
COAL TO BURN THE WORLD - Winner of the Creative Writing Ink Competition October 2021.
HOW SHE KILLS - Selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions, SonderBlu Festival. THE ROSES AND THE WEEDS - Received an honorable mention by Wordruner eChapbooks. ANONYMOUS WAS A WOMAN - Collected short stories by Elinora Westfall shortlisted by Wordrunner eChapbooks 2021.
FRENCH BEANS & INNER PEACE - Comedy monologue shortlisted by Madwomen Monologues by Baggage Productions, Melbourne. WAR’S ORPHAN & THE SOUND OF SILENCE - Pushcart Prize nominee. WHAT REMAINS - Nominated for the Small Press Fiction Award 2022.
Film, Theatre and Radio
LOVE, MARY (theatre) - DYSPLA & Hat Trick Productions finalist 2022. THE ART OF ALMOST - Performed at Heller Theatre, April 2022. HOW SHE KILLS - Performed by SLAMMinutes does Mental Health at the Pleasance Theatre, London in 2022. FRENCH BEANS & INNER PEACE - Aired on Eclectic Theatre’s Half Hour Audio Hour. EVERLAND - Commissioned 8-part BBC Radio Drama. Available as an audiobook on Spotify, iTunes, Anchor, and various other audio streaming services. CONFESSIONS: THE HOURS - Multi-award-winning short film adapted for stage and performed at Thornhill Theatre, London, and Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, where it won the award for Best Monologue. Confessions also featured on Broadway during Winterfest in November 2021 and was selected by Fillum International Storical & Short Film Festival (FISSF), QueerBee Festival, Festival Genders & Performances, Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions. THE SUDDENNESS OF QUIET - Short film selected by Madeira Curtas Short Films Contest (Madeira Island), Think Shorts, Pinewood Studios and Lift-Off Sessions. I AM WINTER - A multi-award-winning short film selected by FFilm Cymru Wales Lesbian & Bisexual Women’s Festival. Available on LesFlicks VOD Streaming Service and Think Shorts. I Am Winter was also selected by REDMOON Film Festival, Pinewood Studios, Lift-Off Sessions and was used as a promotional piece by the Broxtowe Women’s Project. TIG & LOMSTER - Children’s audiobook aired on BBC Radio and performed by Nick Knowles for the MFPT Big Shout Out Festival. A TERRIBLE THING HAS HAPPENED - Audio short story performed by Emmerdale's Samantha Giles for the BBC Upload Festival 2021 and performed on BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Radio Sussex. CECILY & THE DRAGON - Children’s story performed by Nick Knowles for the children of the NHS workers at the MPFT Big Shout Out Festival. HOW SHE KILLS - Performed at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester. Also developed by Queer Colors Theatre.
Various other spoken word pieces and short theatre shows have been selected by Heller Theatre’s Sunday Serials project, aired on BBC Radio (Essex, Kent, London, Wales, Scotland, Sussex, Brighton, Oxford, Suffolk, and Norfolk), Litro Podcast, The Sheepshead Review, After Ellen, The Bitchin' Kitsch, PodPlay, Poetry Spoken Here and Open Mic of the Air.
Work Published in Literary Journals Worldwide
Poetry Salzburg, Medium, The Sheepshead Review, Acumen, Rattle, Stand, Every Day Fiction, Sylvia Magazine, Obsessed with Pipework, Crannog Native Skin, The Mighty, Yahoo News, The Gay and Lesbian Review, New Welsh Review, Gaze, Open Journal of Arts & Letters, The Thing Itself, Shorts Magazine, Think Shorts, Litro, Litro US, Flash Fiction Magazine, Macromic, Fictional Cafe, Twenty-Two Twenty Eight, Swimm, Havik, The Nabu Review, Ponder, The Nervous Breakdown, Love in the Time of Covid, Hamilton Stone Review, Secret Attic, Prismatica, The Poetry Question, Crow Toes, Abergavenny Press, Zoetic Press, Bandit Fiction, Processing Crisis, Harpy Hybrid, Storm Cellar, The Ilanot Review, 805 Lit, Bitter Fruit, Pure Slush, Carolina Muse, The Bookends Review, Red Eft, The Bitchin' Kitsch, The Wire, New Plains Review, Green Ink, Ink Sweat & Tears, Orca, GHLL, ELJ Editions, Kin Literary Journal, Sinister Wisdom, Marble, Derailleur, Third Lane Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Smoke, Breath and Shadow, Passengers, Peeking Cat, Agapanthus, Derailleur, Poetry Magazine, Leading Edge Magazine, Avatar, Aayona Magazine, The Avenue, Cerasus, Barzakh, Processing Crisis, Masque & Spectacle, Mindfull, Cerasus, Subterranean Blue, Other-Worldly Women, Beyond Words and many more.