Carrie Cutforth
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WRITING CV

SCREEN CONTENT

Creative Consultant on various Hop To It Productions’ series in development 2022-2023

Participant Accessibility Writers’ Lab First Cohort (Presented by the Canada Media Fund, Telefilm, & Accessible Media Inc. in partnership with Reelabilities Film Festival Toronto & The Miles Nadal JCC.) Fall 2022

Writer Stargaze: The Pilot Episode (Short Form Digital Series) Borken Creative Inc. 2021/2022

Storyroom Writer for the development of Studio Killers 404 (TV Series) 2020

Creative Mentor on Hop To It ProductionsSloppy Jones (Short Form Digital Series) 2019

INTERACTIVE

Writer Spy Whores (Digital) 2014

Writer All Your Fates (Transmedia) 2011/2012

Writer Work with No Pants (Alternate Reality Game) 2011

Creative Consultant Veil Nanoscience (Alternate Reality Game) for Immersive Fiction 2011

FICTION & LITERARY WORKS

The Art of Lost ConversationsLitup 2018

The Way Out—A Recollection of My Life as a Bisexual Jehovah’s Witness, Medium 2017

All Your Fates all chapters for Parts One and Three (Digital Serialized Novel) 2012/2013

[Del]’S Diary (Novella) for Veil Nanoscience (Alternate Reality Game) Immersive Fiction 2011

My Imaginary Best Kids, (Radio) Sounds Like Canada, CBC Radio1 2006

CASE STUDIES

A Multi-Part Case Study: #Mafiaoc (A TikTok Pulp Fiction) & The Girl who is ‘Different’ (the Twitter ‘Teen Movie’): How TikTok Duet and Use this Sound Features are Driving Emerging Forms of Participatory Storytelling, Borkencreative.com, 2020

Part One: The Birth? of A Hashtag

Part Two: Every Mafia Needs a Mob Boss (Or Does It?)

Part Three: Interactivity Challenges the Cinematic Frame

10 Genius Tactics of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries Crowdfunding CampaignTMC Resource Kit 2013

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

ON SCREEN CONTENT & MEDIA

Are Web Series Dead (And Does Anybody Care?)Borkencreative.com 2020

Go Unfuck Yourself: Manual on Jargon for Digital Marketers, Medium 2017

Google Officially Knows Far Too Much About My Vagina, Maximum Middle Age 2016

Playback Canadian Film & TV Hall of Fame: Andra Sheffer, Playback Magazine 2014

Spies Like Me: My Response to IARPA’S RFI UAREHERECarrieCutforth.com
Blog post often cited in Academic Works 2014

Guest Post: Top 5 Web Series Tips, JonReiss.com 2014

Marketing a Digital Project Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought, Stream Daily 2014

Run a Campaign Like A Horserace (And Why You Should), Commissioned Article for NewHive 2014

How to Get Money from People Like a Machiavellian, Commissioned Article for NewHive 2014

Are Bitcoins the New Pogs? Commissioned Article for NewHive 2013

Are Web Series TV Online? Originally posted on Webseries Canada blog 2013

Learning From Orson: Understanding ‘Audiences’ in Transmedia & Webseries, Story Horizons 2013

A Conversation with IPF Web Series Producers Part 1 & Part 2, Web Series Today 2011

ON FEMINISM & QUEER SEXUALITY

Forgiveness is Overrated: The Second Coming of Kesha, Medium 2017

In Search of: One Male Ally to Hold My Hand for Social Media Photo-Op, Medium 2017

The Artist Formerly Known As Straight: Reflections on A Year Out as Bi, Medium 2016

My One Minute Rape Story, The Establishment 2016

Over 40 with Zero Fucks to Give, Medium 2014

Is Rape Never Funny? CarrieCutforth.com 2012

ON DISABILITY 

For Those Who’ve Been Told: ‘It’s All in Your Head’: A Love Letter to the Long-Haulers, The ME/CFS Sufferers & Beyond, Medium 2022

How to Stop, Drop, and Roll in Mental Crisis, The Establishment 2017

How to Help the Cause When You Need Help Yourself, The Establishment 2016
Republished by Everyday Feminism 2017

How to Melt Your Bathtub without Really Trying, Maximum Middle Age 2016

ON ARTS & CULTURE

#Elbowgate is Awful; You are All Awful, Medium 2016

2014: A Year in Review from the Future, Commissioned article for NewHive 2014

Subverting the Canadian National Artefacts, Line Break (Print) 2009

Arts Columnist for blogTO.com 2006/2007

Where it’s at: Mapping Toronto’s Creative Clusters, Rocket Science (Print) 2008

Interview with Vid Ingelevics, Rocket Science (Print) 2008

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