My painting won the Babes with Blades competition!!!!!

My painting "Erinyes" won the visual part of the competition and now some playwrights will compete by writing a play based on my painting!

INSPIRING SWORD & PEN Babes With Blades' International Art Competition

Our Joining Sword & Pen playwriting competition offers writers from around the globe the opportunity to take inspiration from a work of visual art, using it as a basis for a brand new work for theatre that features strong roles for women, and explores violence as a storytelling tool.

Background on the competition: Joining Sword & Pen, Babes With Blades' international playwriting competition, was launched in 2005 to increase the number of quality scripts featuring fighting roles for women. (View FAQ) The inaugural theme was proposed by Fight Master David Woolley, inspired by the print of Emile Bayard's "An Affair of Honor" that hung on his living room wall. Each entry to the contest was required to incorporate the moment depicted in the print: a duel between two women on a secluded country road. The competition netted the Babes over 40 entries, from locales ranging from their native Chicago to South Africa and New Zealand. Submissions were of such quality that Babes With Blades plans to publish the winning plays and the best of the runners-up in an anthology. The two winning one-acts, Chicagoan Byron Hatfield's Mrs. Dire's House of Crumpets and Solutions and New Zealander Tony Wolf's Satisfaction, were staged at the Viaduct Theater, April 7 - May 14, 2006, under the title An Affair of Honor. Each playwright received the Ballantyne Award, later renamed the Margaret Martin Award, which carried with it a $500 stipend. Click here: To find out more about BABES WITH BLADES