Jamie’s literary awards include the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, The Goldwyn Award in Screenwriting, The New York State Council on the Arts Grant, First Prize in the Writers Digest Fiction Competition (twice), a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Grant, a Bread Loaf Writing Conference Fellowship in fiction, and artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,  the Ragdale Foundation, the Djerassi Foundation, The Dorland Mountain Artist Colony, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Eastern Frontier Society and VCCA International Fellowships in Germany and most recently, Auvillar, France.

 

Jamie Cat Callan is the author of three young adult novels, and a relationship book.  She is also the creator of “The Writers Toolbox: Creative Games and Exercises for the ‘Write’ Side of Your Brain” and has taught her unique right brain approach to writing at Yale University, Wesleyan University, NYU, UCLA, Educational Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, The YMCA Writers Voice Program, at Grub Street in Boston and through Media Bistro in New York City.  She has taught writing to senior citizens, at-risk children, gifted youth, in prisons, psychiatric hospitals and to cowboy poets in Montana.

 

Jamie is married to William Thompson, a climate change scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. She lives on Cape Cod.  

 

Jamie offers workshops on “The Way of the French Woman: How to dress, entertain and flirt with style.”  She’s always happy to give readings, lead writing workshops and to speak on writing, love, romance, all things French and how to live a wildly creative life.

 

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