Dawn Amber Tonks
The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Dawn Amber Tonks, MFA. Dawn Amber’s thesis is a screenplay entitled The International Auntie Pageant.
Dawn Amber Tonks is a member of the St’uxwtéws band of the Secwepmec Nation from the interior of British Columbia. She has just completed her Master of Fine Arts with UBC. Dawn has published a poem Weykt in Canadian Lit magazine. For her thesis she wrote a feature length screen play, titled The International Auntie Pageant. For which she has had to learn a lot about beauty pageants, as well as how to spell “pageant”. She writes in most genres and largely focuses on Indigenous life in Canada.
The International Auntie Pageant is a feature length screenplay. When Rhonda Williams finds out her niece Faith has nominated her and her friends to compete in a beauty pageant she is flabbergasted. What business do four mid-aged Indigenous women have being beauty contestants? When small town women take on the big city in with big dreams of even bigger wins, magic can happen. Follow Rhonda, Tara, Kimmy and Christine as they take on Vancouver and The International Auntie Pageant.
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