Fiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
Ben Nightingale
14 Soundview Avenue
White Plains, NY 10606
914-772-0466
E-MAIL: Nightingale.Ben@gmail.com Alternate tele: 914-428-5991(Voice & Fax)
MY WRITER’S WEBSITE: BenNightingale.typepad.com
WRITER’S RESUME—PAGE ONE
(NOTE—PUBLISHING & ASSIGNMENT CREDITS—PAGE TWO)
My book—Too White To Be Black, Too Black To Be White—is being represented by Erika Storella, an agent at The Gernert Company.
Awarded a WOOLRICH SCHOLARSHIP in CREATIVE WRITING from COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Grant for a book from THE MARY ROBERTS RINEHART FOUNDATION
JOHN GOLDEN FOUNDATION AWARD—HUNTER PLAYWRIGHTS-NYC
Author interviews for major publishers including; CROWN and BANTAM
Television interviews on the following(for an autobiographical article I wrote)
AM PHILADELPHIA SONYA SHOW—DETROIT
TOM COTTLE SHOW—WGBH CHAN 2—BOSTON
DAVE PATTERSON SHOW—CLEVELAND
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK—Undergraduate credits in…….
JOURNALISM: 12 POETRY: 4 (Intermed.)
PHOTO JOURNALISM: 6 PLAYWRITING: 6
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: 12(Advanced) ADVANCED COMP: 3
THE SHORT STORY: 6(Advanced)
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Cover Story - TODAY MAGAZINE—PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
EBONY MAGAZINE
CINCINNATI ENQUIRER MAGAZINE—Profile of 42ND. STREET LEAD
LEROY REAMS
SHOWBILL MAGAZINE—Article on THE VILLAGE GATE— its 25th Anniversary—A history with Profiles of Art
and Burton D’Lugoff and including interviews with PETE SEEGER and TED MANN of CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE.
SUNDAY MAGAZINE—GANNETT WESTCHESTER ROCKLAND
ARARAT MAGAZINE—Profile of ABC-TV VICE PRESIDENT
NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS
THE CPA SOFTWARE NEWS—TAX SOFTWARE REVIEWS
FICTION
THE MENDICINO REVIEW—“Fragile Winter”
OBSIDIAN-Wayne State University—“Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.”
NETWORK AFRICA—“The Education” and “Good Hair”
THE JEWSIH MAGAZINE—“A Terror of Knives.”
TEACHING
WHITE PLAINS ADULT EDUCATION—Instructor in CREATIVE WRITING
WESTCHESTER ASSOCIATION OF GIFTED AND TALENTED—Taught PHOTO JOURNALISM
Worked on SUBURBAN STREET NEWS—A WHITE PLAINS NEWSPAPER
where I did a broad range of articles and service pieces & photos.