Austen Brauker
“HOMUNCULUS" a screenplay by Austen Brauker
“1st Place, Best Overall Script, All Categories” Los Angeles Movie Awards 2012
“1st Place, Best of Category” Mountain Film Awards Screenplay Contest 2012
“1st Place, Grand Prize, All categories” Oregon Film Festival 2011
“1st Place, Best Horror Screenplay” Love Unlimited International Film Festival 2011
“DENALI Award Winner” Alaska International Film Festival 2012
“2nd Place, Honorable Mention” Evolution International Film Festival 2012
“3rd Place Overall” Visionfest Screenwriting Competition 2012
“Top 10 Finalist” New Orleans Horror Film Festival 2012
“Official Finalist” Honolulu Film Awards 2012
“Official Finalist” Colorado Film Festival 2012
“Official Finalist” Charleston International Film Festival 2012
“Official Finalist” Beverly Hills International Film Festival 2012
“Official Finalist” Hollywood Screenplay Contest 2011
“Official Finalist” Newport International Film Festival 2011
“Official Finalist” STORY PROS Screenplay Contest 2011
“Semi-finalist” PAGE Awards Screenplay Competition 2011
“Fifth Round Winner” The Golden Brad Awards Movie Script Contest 2011
“Honorable Mention” Chicago Screenwriters Network Contest 2011
“Honorable mention” Great Lakes International Film Festival 2011
“Best Fiction Writer Award” Dark Matter Magazine 2011
“Honorable mention Award” for “Live Script Reading Performance” at Beyond Baroque Theater, Love Unlimited Film Festival, Venice Ca.
Screenplay, "White Buffalo" picked up in 2011 for production by Wild Horse Films, through Inktip.
Both “Homunculus” and “White Buffalo” have received positive coverage feedback from several sources.
“11th place” 2011 Annual Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Writing Competition. (Accepted for 2011 Anthology)
Austen is the author of two full length fiction novels, several theatrical plays, much poetry and regular newspaper articles at three separate publications in Michigan. Two of his short plays, “Crocophile” and “Look What the Cat Dragged In,” have been produced by West Shore College, where he was also published in Dark Matter, as best fiction writer for 2008. His work has won several writing competitions and is posted at various places on the internet, on writer’s sites and bookselling sources. He has been printed in numerous hard copy anthologies.
Austen currently works as a Peacemaker/Probation Officer at the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Tribal Justice Center and as an artist, painting murals, like the well known piece at the entrance of the Willows restaurant at the Little River Casino and Resort. He creates many different traditional native crafts and various other forms of visual art. His work was used by the National Congress of the American Indian for the N.C.A.I. conference logo in 2011 and the original hangs at their embassy in Washington D.C.
Austen is a long time musician and has performed regularly since he started playing music over twenty eight years ago. Austen plays many different styles of music on acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, lap steel and slide blues. He plays the Native American flute and sings with a traditional Odawa drum group in Manistee, Michigan. He recently scored the soundtrack for an educational sturgeon documentary that was filmed locally, spotlighting the L.R.B.O.I. sturgeon rearing program. He has numerous CD’s of different styles of original music, most of it available online.
Austen is a tribal member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. He hunts and fishes as an expression of tribal sovereignty and to feed his family, physically and spiritually. In 2011 he was the first L.R.B.O.I. tribal member in recent recorded history to harvest a lake sturgeon, caught on hook and line, weighing 108 lbs. and measuring 6 ft. 1 in. In 2009 he was gifted with an 8 pt. bull elk. At 17 yrs. old, he brought home a 350 lb. black bear. He shares these special gifts with elders and other tribal members whenever possible. For Austen, hunting provides a direct connection to nature, builds deep reverence and respect, and ties him directly to the web of life. He is an advocate of spiritual unity among all of earth’s peoples and seeks to focus on our similarities as brothers and sisters, rather than arbitrary and divisive differences, hoping for acceptance and sharing as we evolve together in our collective world consciousness, as human beings.
Austen is married to his beautiful love, and best friend, his wife Victoria.
Hardcopy Published Work:
Voices on the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now, ISBN: 978-0-9840179-0-4
The Zharmae Anthology: Ends of Man, Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-937365-00-4
Mega Era: Issue #27 Perfect Paperback, ASIN: B002ACNFC6
Dark Matter Magazine, 2009, 2010, 2011.
2011 Annual Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Writing Anthology
The Copperfield Review
Motley Press: Vol. One, Issue Two
Motley Press: Issue Four
Aquill Relle: Magazine Four
221 B Magazine: Summer Issue 2011
E-zine Articles
Indict Circle: Issue #25
The Taking of Wings: Lulu
Online Publications:
The Cortland Review, Author Me- Editor, Anthologies Online- Featured Author, ABC Tales- Cherry Picked Author, Writers Pub, Nice Stories, VerbSap, One of Us Creative Writing, We Read, Poets and Writers Speakeasy, Fantasy Writers, The Online Writer, Suite 101, Every Poet Showcase, E-Zine Articles, The Free Library, Post Articles, Writer’s Relief, We Book , My Book Live, Smashwords, Author’s Den, Booksie, Free Stories Center,
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