The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Victoria McIntyre, MFA. Victoria’s graduate thesis is a novel entitled Rumspringa.
While at the University of Toronto, Victoria was the youngest recipient of the Northrop Frye Research Fellowship. At UBC, she was a producer of the Brave New Play Rites Festival and the Reviews Editor of PRISM international. As Playwright-in-Residence, her play, A Line of Dust, was staged at the Heliconian Club. Her pilot script, The Boys at St. B’s, was a Semi-Finalist in the GEMfest International Screenplay Competition. She was longlisted for Room Magazine’s Short Forms contest. Her thesis explores sisterhood, women’s bodies, religious guilt, and coming-of-age under a paranormal lens. She is writing a YA novel about Girl Scouts competing for a secret badge.
Behind a wrought iron gate on the edge of Owen Sound, there’s a large greenhouse full of fireflies and a secret passageway to another world. Katharina lives nearby in a strict Amish community. When her father disappears, Katharina must search for him in this unfamiliar landscape. With luxurious silks that you can wear if they don’t kill you, a mind-reading monster made of wind, and dolls that disassemble your body for parts, this is a dark, wild, beautiful world. Using the supernatural, Rumspringa explores emotional, sexual, and physical repression in religious communities and a coming-of-age journey distinct to young women.
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