The Short List - East
Sarah Mian (Halifax, NS)
SONG
Both Wide Now
Rigatoni, angel hair
Pizza boxes on the stair
Ice cream wrappers everywhere
We've gorged ourselves this way
But now we only block the sun
We take up space from everyone
So many things we would have done
But food got in our way
Chorus:
I look at us, we're both wide now
We're up and down, then huge somehow
It's not illusion anymore
Our backsides don't fit through the door
Our moons have bloomed like ferris wheels
The dizzy, breathless way we feel
As we get up on our heels
The fridge so far away
And now we're just another show
We leave them gawking when we go
Because we ate the cookie dough
Before it was baked
Chorus (change):
I see our butts from both sides now
The front and back at once somehow
It's not illusion anymore
Our backsides don't fit through the door
Fears and jeers, yet feeling proud
To say "We're plus-sized" right out loud
Pills and schemes for slimming down?
We'd rather lick our plates
Skinny minnies think we're strange
They shake their heads, say we should change
Their snack loss is our weight gain
We're living every day
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Out of hundreds and hundreds of entries, just twenty Canadians made it to the Short List and won themselves an audition with Canada Writes. Then eight semi-finalists were picked to play in the Eastern semi-finals and Western/Northern semi-finals.
Read their winning songs, blogs, ads, rants and movie pitches!
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Updates
(Toronto, April 25, 2009)
It was a very tight race in the end. Our four finalists fought it out by blog, song, ad and a three-line story. First, they each drew a blog topic, from “the best hundred dollars I ever spent” to “one fact I would like to ‘un-know’”. Challenge number 2 was to re-write a song by Queen, with Valerie Stanois from the musical We Will Rock You bringing power vocals to their surprising new words. Then judges Geri Hall, Terry O’Reilly and Darrell Dennis sent Kaveh Mohebbi through the infamous Trap Door. Challenge number 3 was the radio ad. Clever ads for Cornhobbler’s Crematorium and Juice Bar (obviously not a real business) and Christmas greetings from the makers of Flank Chainsaws won Katie Sanders and Laurie Schwartz a last chance at writing glory, but it was Margaret Beach’s turn to go through the Trap Door. Finally, Laurie and Katie had to come up with the first two lines of a three-line story… on yellow writing pads on their laps…and in 90 seconds….
After weeks of effort and tension and achievement -- from the writing contest in January, through the auditions, the short list, the semi-finals and the finals – it was all over in a couple of minutes. Katie pulled ahead by a crucial point -- and became the winner of Canada Writes 09! Listen to the show! Read the blogs!
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Winner of the Online Challenge! Ontario's Heather Smith is the winner of this year's People's Choice Award. Her winning entry was a re-write of the ABBA song 'Waterloo.' Take a look!
Western semi-finalist 09
