Pen Name:
None
Genres:
Biography, Memoir, Poetry, Screenplays, Stageplays, Other Nonfiction
Website:
JacquelineMurrayLoring.com
McFarland Publishing
Social Media:
Contact Information:
jmljake@capecod.net
JacquelineMurrayLoring@gmail.com
Bio
Jacqueline Murray Loring is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. Her poetry collection, The History of Bearing Children, won the Doire Press Irish International Poetry Prize, published in Galway in 2012. KiMo Theatre: Fact and Folklore was published in 2019. Vietnam Veterans Unbroken: Conversations on Trauma and Resiliency was published by McFarland Publishing in 2019. In 2021, it received the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Politics and Current Events. Her poem “Wind Rose View” was included in the City of Albuquerque’s anthology, One Albuquerque, One Hundred Poets. In addition to writing movie scripts and stage plays, Loring judges poetry for SWW. She served as script consultant/script supervisor for the films House on Normal Street and Symphony in C-Note produced by Antonio Weiss.
Loring was the executive director of the Cape Cod Writers Center, coordinator of the Eventide Arts Playwriting Competition, and facilitator of the Cape Cod Screenwriters Group. She is a member of the Yucca branch of the National League of American Pen Women, The New Mexico Women in Film, AMFI Productions, and the Military Writers Society of America. She serves on the SouthWest Writers board. In 2020, she received the Parris Award, SouthWest Writers’ most prestigious honor.
Books: Film Scripts
Title: Bridge to Socorro
Published: 2022
Genre: Feature-length Narrative Movie Script: Family Story
Bridge to Socorro is a feature film script. After a New Mexican horse breeder receives a mysterious offer to buy his ranch, he travels to Cape Cod to negotiate the sale with his silent partner and ex-mother-in-law and discovers he has a precocious granddaughter, and that the family matriarch is a seasoned manipulator. Bridge to Socorro is set against the backdrops of New Mexico’s high desert and the Memorial Day ‘New England Regional 4-H Equine Expo’ in the Cape Cod village of Aptucxet. It tells the story of five generations of Cape Cod women, the consequences of long-held secrets, unwanted revelations, and answers the question: Can 4-H Hunt Seat riders and Gymkhana kids work together to host a successful equine event?
Available for Sale
Title: NOEL: A Christmas Screenplay Adventure for Kids
Co-author: Kendra Jacqueline Loring
Publisher: Summer Home Press, May 2023
Genre: Feature-length Family Friendly Film Script Written for Kids
During Christmas week, a bumbling father, a shop full of magical dolls, and a second-grade class race to solve the mystery at the Native People’s Trading Post before a blizzard buries their village.
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Title: Deal Me In
Co-author: Bunny Wingate Tavares
Published: February 2023
Genre: Feature-length Film Script Written for Adults
Deal Me In is an ADULT AUDIENCE feature-length film script that is not meant for readers under 18 years old. This story is set in the 1980s in Malibu, California and Las Vegas, Nevada with a quick couple of scenes in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
Log line: On a quest to play high-stakes Texas Hold’em in Malibu and win the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas the 1980s, a gorgeous risktaker descends into madness as she struggles to control her gambling addiction and to prevent a dangerous card shark from revealing her mounting losses to her mob-boss father.
Available for Sale
Other Films and Screenplays
♦ House on Normal Street — IMDb / 2018
♦ Trains, Track and Aliens — EMDS Studios / 2018
♦ Symphony in C-Note / 2023 by Antonio Weiss – Paragweiss
♦ — IMDb
♦ — Full Movie
Books: Nonfiction
Title: Vietnam Veterans Unbroken: Conversations on Trauma and Resiliency
Publisher: McFarland & Co. Publisher/May 30, 2019
Genre: Nonfiction
For 50 years, civilians have avoided hearing about the controversial experiences of Vietnam veterans, many of whom suffer alone through post-traumatic stress. Through interviews conducted with 17 soldiers, this book shares the stories of those who have been silenced. These men and women tell us about life before and after the war. They candidly share stories of 40–plus years lived on the “edge of the knife” and many wonder what their lives would be like if they had come home to praise and parades. By telling their stories in Vietnam Veterans Unbroken: Conversations on Trauma and Resiliency these brave veterans offer their tragedies and successes to newer veterans as choices to be made or rejected.
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Title: KiMo Theatre: Fact & Folklore
♦ Editor and Contributor
Publisher: Southwest Writers (March 1, 2019)
Genre: Facts, Fiction, and Folklore
For ninety years, hundreds of thousands of adults and children have packed the KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque, New Mexico to watch ballet, drama, spoken-word, and to listen to poetry readings. Performers have acted, sung, danced, and spellbound audiences with magic. The book boasts a broad spectrum of Facts, Fiction, and Folklore including newly-told stories, articles, memoirs, insights, opinions, never-before-heard remembrances, and researched facts about the KiMo Theatre as a performing arts theatre and a movie palace. This collection was written by people who, over the years, have developed and nurtured a loving, respectful relationship with the theatre. Past employees, elected officials, performers, and audience members share remembrances of the Bachechi family who built the theater, the theatre’s construction in 1927, the 1977 vote by Albuquerque citizens to buy and preserve the building, the theatre’s closings for renovations, its murals, art, and (and disputed) paranormal activity.
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Poetry
The History of Bearing Children ♦ 2012 Doire Press International Poetry Chap Book Prize in Galway, Ireland
Title: Summer Home Review Vol. 1 and Vol. II
Publisher: AuthorHouse- Summer Home Review Vol. 1, July 17, 2002 and Vol. 2, July 28, 2005
Genre: Poetry Anthology
These anthologies are more than a gathering of poems and poets. They are a convergence of paths, a literary labyrinth, and an honoring of the written word. Summer Home Review is the work of nurses, firemen, teachers, healers, soldiers, lawyers, singers, union members, and play writes. Some of the poets are Vietnam veterans, their poems are neither ‘war’ poetry nor writing that is of ‘workshop’ quality. All the poems have an edge. Poems by Dorinda Foley Wegener may delight while poems by Gary Rafferty may infuriate or sadden but all the work is compelling. Through the book you can trace the literary bonds of the poets and the influences of their poet-teachers like Bruce Weigl and Yusef Komunyakaa. Like travelers in a labyrinth, the poets included have reached the center and, with the publications are making their way back to the beginning.
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Anthologies
Title: The StoryTeller’s Anthology
♦ Editor
Publisher: SouthWest Writers / December 12, 2013
When a flood decimated the offices of a premiere U.S. writers’ group, SouthWest Writers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, moving wasn’t optional—it was mandatory. Months later, its treasury still depleted, SouthWest Writer’s president asked for fund-raising ideas at a Saturday meeting. “Let’s publish an eBook!” came the response from a long-standing member in the hundred-plus audience, and The Storyteller’s Anthology was born.
