Ara 13
Writer
Novelist Columnist
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| Drawers & Booths |
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Beginning as a modern military civil affairs action, Drawers &
Booths spirals into a metafictional journey testing the
boundaries of reader and author, narrative voice, and
characterization while satirically analyzing morality in light
of evolutionary psychology.
Biography:
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Ara 13 Lectures on the Creative Writing Process with a Focus on Metafiction. Ara brings more than 15 years of experience as a journalist for civilian and military media to his discussions. Ara is recognized as one of Indie's top authors. Ara was trained by the U.S. Department of Information Services as a journalist for print and broadcast and as a newspaper editor. Ara has worked startup businesses in newspaper, magazine, and book publishing. Ara is a featured book reviewer for Critics and Monsters.com |
Coverage: From war in Bosnia, events in Haiti, Special Operations in the Mideast and Africa; to meetings with President Clinton, Secretary of Navy John Dalton, and other various dignitaries and celebrities; to writing commercials, columns, features, and ultimately award-winning metafiction novels. Newspapers Current Diversions—Hilton Head Island Department of Information Services—Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. Pacific Stars and Stripes—(cited for TV work in Japan) The Jet Stream—Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, SC The Beaufort Gazette—South Carolina The Globe—Camp Lejeune, NC The Navy Times—Springfield, VA The Post—Fort Dix, NJ Tri-Command Tribune—Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island Magazines Leatherneck—Magazine of the Marines Monsters and Critics—webzine Secular Nation—Norwood, PA Sisyphus On Strike—Atlanta, GA Torii Teller—Iwakuni Japan The Parrot—Galveston, TX Television Journalism Beaufort Air Station—SC Det 5 Air Force Pacific Broadcasting Squadron— Far East KOB-TV, NBC—Albuquerque, NM Radio Journalism Far East Network—Japan WRNJ—Hackettstown, NJ Film Writing Grey Sky Films—Rockaway, NJ Books Drawers & Booths Fiction |
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for Novels: IPPY—an “Outstanding Book of the Year” Bronze Medal “Storyteller of the Year” 2008— World’s Largest Independent Award (3,175 entrants from 16 countries) Nominated for Galveston County Reads 2009— Drawers & Booths Official Entrant of Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Fiction 2008—Drawers & Booths for Military Writing: Air Force Achievement Medal—Correspondent in Japan Air Force Organization Excellence Award from Navy Broadcasting Service—MCAS Iwakuni Japan Air Force Pacific Broadcasting Award— Television Air Force Pacific Broadcasting Squadron’s “Person of the Quarter”—Joint-military award for Combat Correspondents Army Commendation Medal—Special Operations work and subsequent contingent duties as a Journalist. Combat Correspondents Association’s Distinguished Performance Award Defense Information School’s Editors Course Diploma Meritorious Mast from Air Force Pacific Broadcasting Squadron—broadcast journalism Meritorious Mast from Commanding Officer Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, SC— Combat Correspondent Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal— Journalism |
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Ara 13, born Ara DeBoer Hirsch in Newton, New Jersey 1971. Combat Correspondent, print, television, and radio for the United States Marine Corps 1992-1996. Co-creator of magazine Sisyphus On Strike, Atlanta, Georgia 1996-1998. News writer for civilian radio and Special Operations of United States Army 1998-2001. Commercial and script writer for Grey Sky Productions 2001-2006. Columnist Galveston, Texas 2006-present. Feature writer for national publications to include Critics and Monsters online. Author Drawers & Booths 2007. Author Fiction (to be released 2009). |