Congratulations to Ben H. Winters, one of Butler MFA’s favorite adjunct professors. He moved to Los Angeles after teaching his final fiction workshop with the Butler MFA last spring to pursue screenwriting. He has already brokered a deal with NBC to bring his Edgar Award-winning The Last Policeman series to television. Deadline reports, “In a competitive situation, NBC has landed The Last Policeman, an adaptation of Ben H. Winters’ sci-fi mystery novel, with a put pilot commitment.” Even better news: Winters will write the script. He will return October 22nd to Indianapolis for a reading of his new, best-selling novel, Underground Airlines. The reading is at Indy Reads at 6:00 PM.
Another Butler MFA adjunct professor is celebrating a screenplay deal. Lili Wright has sold the feature rights to her novel Dancing with the Tiger to The Mark Gordon Company. We expect the movie to be as thrilling as the novel. Lili will return to Butler’s campus on November 30th for a conversations@efroymson book party. The event begins at 7:00 PM in the Efroymson Center for Creative Writing.