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Carolyn S. Briggs

Author: This Dark World : A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost
Screenwriter: Higher Ground.

Carolyn S. Briggs is an Associate Professor of English and teaches creative writing, literature, and composition at Marshalltown Community College. She received her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arkansas. As a graduate student, she studied Irish literature and creative writing at Galway University in Ireland.

She won the Heartland Short Fiction Prize for Emerging Writers, and her winning short story "Incarnate" appeared in New Letters. Her memoir This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost was published by BloomsburyUSA in 2002 and Rowman & Littlefield in 2011 (now titled Higher Ground: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost). She wrote the screenplay Higher Ground in 2010.

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Religion Dispatches Magazine
A Valentine for the World...and for the Church I Left
Essay By Carolyn S. Briggs

When I was a little girl, long before my decision to become a radically devoted follower of Jesus Christ, I loved Valentine’s Day more than any other holiday. It was a day about love which featured two things I especially adored: intimate notes in tiny envelopes, and candy hearts in pastels or chocolate...more.

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Religion Dispatches Magazine
An Atheist Hero is Something to Be
Interview By Carolyn S. Briggs

Interview with Matthew Chapman, director of The Ledge, a thriller featuring Hollywood’s first openly atheist hero. Chapman talks about Jimmy Carter, the beauty of empty churches, and the redundancy of faith...more.

 

Carolyn S Briggs This Dark World

Cinema Cafe Screenwriters Panel

2011 Sundance Film Festival

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Book Reviews—This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost

Salon.com

San Francisco Gate

Los Angeles Times

The Washington Post

Carolyn S. Briggs—Screenwriter: Higher Ground (Movie)


What's New—Higher Ground

 

The New York Times—A. O. Scott

Film criic A. O. Scott reviews Higher Ground.

CBS Sunday Morning—David Edelstein

Film critic David Edelstein talks about Higher Ground on CBS Sunday Morning. Edelstein is chief film critic for New York Magazine, NPR's Fresh Air, and CBS Sunday Morning.

Fresh AirDavid Edelstein

Film critic David Edelstein talks about Higher Ground on NPR's Fresh Air.

All Things ConsideredMelissa Block

Melissa Block talks to Vera Farmiga about Higher Ground.

LA Times—Robert Abele

Movie review of Higher Ground.

Time MagazineBelinda Luscombe

Interview with Vera Farmiga.

Time MagazineRichard Corliss

Movie review of Higher Ground.

The Inside Reel

Vera Farmiga and Joshua Leonard talk about Higher Ground.

USA TODAY—Bryan Alexander

Interview with Vera Farmiga about Higher Ground.

Huffington PostKristin McCracken

Huffington PostRegina Weinreich

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More About Higher Ground

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See Higher Ground Movie Trailer

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Higher Ground appeared at the following film festivals:

2011 Sundance Film Festival , Park City, UT.

2011 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, NY

2011 Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Provincetown International Film Festival, Provincetown, MA

2011 Nantucket Film Festival, Nantucket, MA


Nonfiction work by Carolyn S. Briggs

Writers on Writing: Higher Ground

"Waiting for Lightning to Strike: A Wobbly Agnostic among the Atheists"

"Seeing the Light"

 

Representation

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Higher Ground Vera Farmiga

Higher Ground: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost

What's New

The Wall Street Journal

The New York Times

CBS Sunday Morning

All Things Considered (NPR)

LA Times

Time Magazine

The Inside Reel

USA TODAY


 

“I did not become a rabbi because I believe. I became a rabbi because I committed my life to never giving up searching and yearning for God. I am a rabbi because there is in me as there is in you, a child, a child that knows that somewhere we are not alone, that this world is bathed in miracles, and that for every pain, there is beauty, and for every loss, there is love, and for every waste, there is wonder.”
--Rabbi David Wolpe