About

Bryan Basamanowicz is a writer from Warner Robins, Georgia. He is currently institutionalized in the Coastal Health Center for Psychological Services in Vancouver, British Columbia. Having lost touch with reality, he insists that he is not in a psych-ward but “sharing a telephone booth with a giant bear.” Friends and family have not lost all hope for a recovery, but the prognosis is grim; he continues to write.

 

Books and Articles:

The Social Imagination Project  (“Handbook for the High-Functioning Paranoiac“) September 2012

The Millions (“From the Library of Your Soul-Mate“) May 2012

Hail Mary Jane (“Three Reasons Why Drug Companies Oppose Legalization”) November 2012

Hail Mary Jane (“Lessons From the Ancient Greeks on Legalization”) November 2012

 

 Workshops and Mentors:

University of Iowa, Iowa City. Summer 2011

w/ Rebecca Johns, Novelist— Bloomsbury, The Countess

Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Advanced Novel Writing Workshop

 

University of Missouri, Saint Louis, MO. Spring 2011

w/ John Dalton, Award-Winning Novelist—Scribner, The Inverted Forest

Narrative Technique, Creative Writing

 

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Summer 2009

w/ Marshall Cook, Novelist – Savage Press, Off Season

Writing Compelling Fiction