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Elaine Barnard papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-2022-24

Scope and Contents

The collection contains published and unpublished story manuscripts, plays, speeches, articles, scripts, and notes.

Published stories, hard and soft copy

2022 - Fear: Short and Shorter Stories short story collection published by Park Road 2022 - "The House,” flash fiction, published in Mason Street Blog - Winter 2022 2022 - “Missouri,” short story published in Terror House 2022 - “”Burger Day," flash fiction, published in Pure Slush

2021 - “Chad,” flash fiction, published in the 2022 Big Time Flash Fiction Date Book 2021 - “And Then My Mother Said to Me,” flash fiction, published in Pure Slush 2021 - “The Reventazon,” flash fiction, published in Terror House 2021 - “Pandemic,”flash fiction, published in Finishing Line Press 2021 - “Wildfires,” flash fiction, published in Leaving Lit 2021 - “Jeffrey,” flash fiction, published in Burningword 2021 - “Radioman,” flash fiction, published in Terror House 2021 - “That Night,” flash fiction, published in Secret Attic 2021 - “James,” flash fiction, published in Pure Slush 2021 - “Gym Rats,”flash fiction, published in Pure Slush 2021 - “The Cry,” flash fiction, published in The Terrorist 2021 - “Chad,” flash fiction, published in Down in the Dirt

2020 - “No Easy Game,” flash fiction, published in Pen to Paper 2020 - “Mother’s Day,” flash fiction, published in Cafe Lit 2020 - “The Bicycle Rider,” - published in Adanna Anthology 2020 - webinar online reading Flash Forward: International Responses to Flash Fiction. Strands Publishers, Trivandrum, Kerala India and Lakeview Journal 2020 - “Billy,” flash fiction, published in Pure Slush 2020 - “Ron,”flash fiction, published in Beach Reads - Adrift 2020 - “Pandemic,” flash fiction, published in Persimmon Tree 2020 - “Mask,” flash fiction, published in Cafe Lit 2020 - “Meet Me,” flash fiction, published in Stu News Corona Chronicles 2020 - “Golden Future,” flash fiction, published in Bombay Review 2020 - “Short Order,” flash fiction, published in Cafe Lit 2020 - “Night Watch,” flash fiction, published in Terror House

2019 - “Sub,” flash fiction, published in Pure Slush 2019 - “Fat,” flash fiction, published in Cliterature 2019 - “Paradise Lost,” flash fiction, published in Flash Fiction 2019 - “The Last Dance,” flash fiction, published in Paradise - Third Street Writers anthology 2019 - “The Library,” flash fiction, winner of the first Strands International Flash Fiction competition 2019 - “Howie,” flash fiction, winner of the third Strands International Flash Fiction competition 2019 - “The Terrorist,” flash fiction, first place winner of the fourth Strands International Flash Fiction competition 2019 - “Holy Communion,” flash fiction, published in Active Muse

2018 - “We Were Waiting For You,” short story, published in Sunlight Press 2018 - “Jalgachi Fish Market,” short story, published in Lowestoft Chronicle 2018 - “Hurricane,” flash fiction published in Terror House 2018 - “Wonder Woman,” short story published in Cliterature 2018 - “Trucker, “ short story published in Nude Bruce, performed at the Annenberg Center in Santa Monica California 2018 - The Emperor of Nuts: Intersections Across Cultures, short story collection published by New Meridian Arts 2018 - “The Open Door,” short story published in Laguna Beach Anthology of Poetry and Short Fiction 2018 - “Father Mario,” short story,published in Miracle: Christian Stories Anthology 2018 - “Big Lunch,” short storypublished in Pure Slush 2018 - “Shadows” published in Red Fez

2017 - “Pomegranate,” flash fictionpublished in Crux 2017 - “Bright Angel,” flash fiction, published in Beach Reads 2017 - "Break-In” short story, published in For the Sonoroust 2017 - “The Road” short story published in Fixional 2017 - “Martha Stewart’s Cranberry Pie,” short story, published in Beach Reads 2017 - “Bridge of No Return,” short story published in River Tales- Zimell House Anthology

2016 - “Remembering a Wedding,” short story published in Binge Anthology 2016 - “Emily,” short story published in Lowestoft Chronicle 2016 - “He Wanted to Fly,” flash fiction, published in Kyso 2016 - “13A,” flash fiction, published in Lost River Review 2016 - “The Hanoi Luxury,” short story, published in Anak Sastra 2016 - “Great Satan Meets the Axis of Evil,” short story, published in Lowestoft Chronicle 2016 - “The Emperor of Nuts,” short story published in Lowestoft Chronicle

2015 - “Bago Station,” short story, published in Lowestoft Chronicle 2015 - “The Flowers,” short story, published in Anak Sastra

2014 - “The Driver,” short story, published in Anak Sastra 2014 - “House of Mirrors,” short story,” published in carte blanche. Performed in Glowing Bright, art and literature event, Annenberg Community Beach House 2014 - “Lonely Planet,” short story, published in Cyclamens and Swords

2013 - “Vigil,” short story, published in Florida English 2013 - “The Palace of Peace and Harmony,” short story, published in Cyclamen and Swords 2013 - “Something to Look Forward to,” short story, published in Diverse Voices Quarterly 2013 - “Stairway to Heaven,” short story, published in Mandala 2013- “Sangre de Cristo,” short story, published in Literary Hatchet 2013 - “Stay,” short story, published in Emerge 2013 - “The Hairdresser,” Hanoi Hangout,” short stories published in Anak Sastra, “Author of the Month,” Issue 12

2012 - “The Christmas Tree,” short story, published in Reflections

2011 - “Mercy,” short story, published in Top 10, Lightship Anthology, United Kingdom

2010 - “Water,” short story finalist Best of the Net - 2010 2010 - “Anniversary,” short story, published in Literary Hatchet 2010 - “The Silk Emporium, short story, published in Litter Box

2009 - “Water,” short story, finalist for Glimmer Train, published in Apple Valley Review 2009 - “Snow,” short story, finalist for Glimmer train, winners international award, published in Southword

2008 - “Remembering s Wedding,” short story, published in Timber Creek Review 2008 - “Smart Dates,” short story, published in The Storyteller 2008 - Short Fiction Series reading - Beverly Hills Library

2007 - “Hidden Valley,” short story, published in R. Ky.Ry

2006 - “The Wedding Day,” short story, published in Kalliope

2004-2002 Excellence in Writing Awards, Santa Barbara Writers Conference

2003 - “Roseann’s Castle,” short story, winner of international competition, published in Writers Forum, United Kingdom 2003 - “Postcard,” short story, published in Sage.

2002 - “Ashes,” short story, winner of international competition, published in Writers Forum, United Kingdom

1999 - "The Seaview Gallery,” short story, published in Pearl

Produced plays, hard copy

1971-2002

“No Trespassing,” Edward Albee Playwright’s Conference, Prince William Sound, Alaska; The Playwrights Group Los Angeles

“The Disappearance,” Actors Playhouse. Long Beach, California

“Leopards,” Winner of the Orange County Playwrights Competition, Produced at the Irish Theater Arts Center, Los Angeles; Long Beach Studio Theater, Long Beach; New Playwrights Festival - Matrix Theater, Los Angeles; Unpublished Plays Collection, Los Angeles Public Library

“Glory,” winner of international competition. produced at Theater Arts Corporation, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Actors Forum, Los Angeles

“Long Distance is Next best Thing to sing There,” produced at the Academy Theater, Atlanta, Georgia

“Ben,” produced at Questorss Theatre, London, United Kingdom

“The Cellar,” “The Family,” “The Subway,” produced at University of California, Irvine

Unpublished/undated novels, hard copy

Searching For Aziz Surfing to Malaysia Flight Kilauea Sounding The Whale Reaching Out Through the Hallway, to the Door

Unproduced/undated plays, hard copy

Blood Count Happy Birthday Anders Digby Gas Hitch Inquiry Koner Kudzu Kyra Last Match Materializations From Another Dimension No Cryin’ Allowed Silence Timeshare The Unsigned Sea Forests

Undated screenplay treatment, hard copy William

Unpublished/undated poems, hard copy

Evelyn Ellen Jill Jenny Writers residencies notes

Dorland Mountain, Temecula, California Ossabaw Island, Savannah, Georgia Millay Colony, New York Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, New Mexico Creekwood Colony, Alabama Squaw Valley, California Berkeley, California

Acting recordings, hard and soft copy

“The Balance Sheet.” Macintosh commercial directed by Tony Scott, 1989, digital "The Best Years of Our Lives, “ scene 71. American Film Institute. Directed by Ken Ochiai, digital “Postcard From Texas,” collected scenes, American Film Institute. Directed by Matthew Testa, digital “Napoleon’s Funeral,” collected scenes, American Film Institute. Directed by Ole Quimtanilla, digital “Margo,” short film, American Film Institute, dvd “Seven Shivas,” short film, American Film Institute, dvd

Dates

  • Majority of material found within 1968 - 2022

Biographical / Historical

Elaine Patricia Elliott Barnard, born in Brooklyn New York Octover 6, 1930 to Agnes Farrell and George Elliot, was a resident of La Mirada, California from 1956-1965 and Laguna Beach from 1965-2022. she was married in 1953 to Ernie Barnard. He died in 1997. in 2010 she met the widower Stephen Kovac, who was her partner until her death May 6, 2022. She had one child, Bryn Barnard, born in 1956, who married Rebecca Parks in 1985, divorced in 2010. The had two grandchildren, Wynn Barnard (b. 1990) and Parks Barnard (b.1992). Bryn married shelley Drennan in 2018.

Elaine studied acting at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she got her B.A., and playwriting at the University of California, Irvine, where she got her M.F.A. She was a stage, television, and film actress for her entire adult life, an elementary school teacher for twelve years, and for several semesters, an adjunct instructor of playwriting at CSU, Fullerton. She wrote plays, short stories, poems, novels, teleplays, and screenplays. There is also correspondence about this writing from 1968 when she wrote her first short story ("The Lady of the Filed Finger") until her death in May 2022, shortly before the publication of her second collection of short stories ("Fear").

In 1954 Elaine Barnard moved to Los Angeles with a freshly minted drama degree from the University of Washington, Seattle to pursue a career in acting. In this first act, she became an accomplished actress, with credits on stage, TV and film.

In 1975, Elaine received her MFA in playwriting from UCI, where she studied under William Inge, beginning a second act writing award-winning plays, with performances of her work in Santa Fe, New York, Los Angeles and London. During this period she also wrote several unpublished novels.

In 2008, after a teaching trip to China that transformed her style and approach from introspection to empathy, Elaine began a third act as a writer of short stories and flash fiction that were published in numerous literary magazines and collected in two published books: The Emperor of Nuts: Intersections Across Cultures and Fear: Short and Shorter Stories, the latter published in July of this year.

This final act was the most fruitful and satisfying for Elaine. The pace of publication and recognition of her work was accelerating at the time of her death. Elaine was a member of SAG/AFTRA, AAUW and the Los Angeles chapter of PEN.

Biography provided by Elaine Barnard's son, Bryn Barnard.

Extent

11 boxes

Language of Materials

English

Physical Location

PLS 363C, Shelf 3

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to the Pollak Library by Bryn Barnard on October 30, 2022.

Condition Description

Good

Processing Information

She wrote in longhand, then typescript, initially saving typed hard copies, and later soft copies of everything she wrote. She used several idiosyncratic filing systems: by year, by name, and by category, which were intermingled in her file cabinets.

Many of her notes and corrections are on the actual file filders themselves. No soft copies have been made of these materials.

Title
Elaine Barnard papers
Status
Completed
Author
pmp
Date
2023-03-21
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the CSUF University Archives & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
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