"Pleats" by Jenny Parsons — Our June 2017 Gold Medal Winner
Jenny Parsons is our first place winner from the contest posted in our June,2017 issue!
Meet Jenny
Jenny Parsons won two Dora performance arts awards while writing and performing with the comedy institution, The Second City. In 2013, she was voted Pacific Mall’s “People’s Choice Best Magician” and, that same year, was a Canadian Comedy Award nominee for the play “Bunni Lady Magician”. In 2016, she scored “Manager’s Choice for Best Magician” at the Oriental Centre contest in Toronto. As a painter, for instance, she has won first, second and third prizes at Walkerton’s Juried Art show over the last three years. This is her first writing award and perhaps, the beginning of a whole new chapter.
What the judges had to say:
“Unexpected and enjoyable.”
“An inspired twist on an image that could easily be considered cliché.”
Pleats
an excerpt of the winning story by Jenny Parsons
Well, I’ll tell you what’s right about a pleated skirt: precision. None of the slop of an elastic-topped polyester pant is in a pleat. There is no confusion, just good clear direction and that is what the world could use right now, more pleats.
Flossy is sitting with eight other women who are standing. They represent the first group of Hadrum Girls Bugle Corps from 1949. Back in their day they wore cowboy boots, fringed cuffs, and short pleated skirts. They are the stars of the 2017 reunion…
To catch the rest of the story, be sure to grab a copy of the September 2017 issue.
52 pages, cover art by Vicki Smith
Featuring the work of Trisha Causley, Dawn Edgcumbe, Jennifer Ellis, Anne Lee Guide, Leslie Hill, Pamela Hopwood, Mary Kainer, Larry Kozlof, Ramune Luminaire, Carly MacIsaac, Jusith A. Mason, Gail M. Murray, Neal Panton, Jenny Parsons, Nicole Schroeder, Vicki Smith, J. J. Steinfeld, Richard Weiser
