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Before becoming a full-time writer, Timothy Jay Smith worked around the world in exotic and sometimes dangerous situations collecting the characters and stories that would later inspire his novels, screenplays and stage plays. Altogether, he has won or placed in well over 100 writing competitions and has four published novels. Fire on the Island won the Gold Medal in the Faulkner-Wisdom Competition for the Novel, and his screenplay adaptation of it was named Best Indie Script by WriteMovies.

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Before becoming a full-time writer, Timothy Jay Smith worked around the world in exotic and sometimes dangerous situations collecting the characters and stories that would later inspire his novels, screenplays and stage plays. Altogether, he has won or placed in well over 100 writing competitions and has four published novels. Fire on the Island won the Gold Medal in the Faulkner-Wisdom Competition for the Novel, and his screenplay adaptation of it was named Best Indie Script by WriteMovies. Another novel, The Fourth Courier, was a finalist in the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards for Best Gay Mystery. Previously, he won the Paris Prize for Fiction for his novel, A Vision of Angels. Kirkus Reviews called Cooper’s Promise “literary dynamite” and selected it as one of the Best Books of the Year. His stage play, How High the Moon, won the prestigious Stanley Drama Award, and his screenplays have won competitions sponsored by WriteMovies, Houston WorldFest, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Fresh Voices, StoryPros, and others.

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Atlanta (First Place, Out on Film Festival) [2023]
StoryPros International (Finalist) [2023]
Creative Screenwriting Feature (Semifinalist) [2023]
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Atlanta (First Place, Out on Film Festival) [2023]
StoryPros International (Finalist) [2023]
Creative Screenwriting Feature (Semifinalist) [2023]
Nicholl Fellowships (Quarterfinalist) [2023]
PAGE International (Quarterfinalist) [2023]
Filmmatic Drama (Quarterfinalist) [2023]
Santa Barbara International (Quarterfinalist) [2023]
Hollywood Diversity (Semifinalist) [2023]
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