Shirley Wilson

Shirley Wilson lives in Virginia, and has two daughters. She is a writer of short stories, plays, screenplays and essays. Her screenplay “Nobody Wants to be Last” won a finalist award in the 2016 Richmond International Film festival. Another screenplay, “The Land,” won Best Feature Screenplay in the 2009 Moondance International Film Festival. A radio drama was aired on 111 PBS radio stations around the country in 2013. She has had several plays produced in Virginia, as well as two in Canada, and her short stories have been published in literary journals and national magazines. One story, published in Redbook, brought a three year film option. Essays have been published in both regional publications and one anthology. In 1993 she won the Governor’s Screenplay Award, presented at the Virginia Film Festival.