Out of Competition by Lew Collins
Demonstrators protest for democracy at the Renne-Sur-Mer annual film festival,
kidnapping a Hollywood producer while a Russian impresario's shark falls from a
helicopter out in the bay, and the festival's deputy usurps his boss's position.
Chaos headlines a year to forget or the one to remember. People who should win don't. Those who shouldn't do. Nobody knows anything, everyone off the air, out to lunch, or simply…Out of Competition
From the author of Uncorrected Proof – a new novel on film under siege in the south of France –winner of the 2023 Kenneth Patchen Award
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About the Author
Lew Collins, writer of Out of Competition, awarded the Kenneth Patchen Award for
the Innovative Novel 2023, published, JEF Books 2024, and Uncorrected Proof,
ElephantEars Press 2008, lives and writes in France.
Born in Western Australia, after a series of laboring jobs, Lew first worked
professionally as a filmmaker and screenwriter in Hong Kong, his filmmaking taking
him throughout Asia, twice into China pre-modernisation. Heading to Sydney to
make films and videos, he turned to novels, living in New York, Rome, London and
Cannes.
Studies, BA in Literature and BA in Film (Australia), MA and PhD (UK), his thesis
Power Over Publishing Morphing into ‘Publishing’ Sage Publications UK, 2011.