Matthew Toffolo: What is your story about?
Pat Jourdan : The story is about the secret lives of holiday towns once summer visitors have left.
What genre?
It is in a plain literary genre.
Describe it in two words
Season’s end.
What film have you seen the most in your life?
Great Expectations (David Lean version)
What is your favorite song?
A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum)
Do you have an all-time favourite novel?
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West
What motivated you to write this story?
Noticing the changes in the last weeks of Sepember.
If you could have dinner with one person,( dead or alive), who would that be?
Emily Bronte
Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
I am an artist, usually painting in oils
What influenced you to enter your story to get performed?
Testing if it worked in another medium, and through the voice of someone else.
Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?
Get a big (real book, with pages) dictionary and read it, discover more words. Read as many books as possible. Books you don’t like are just as valuable, as they are teaching you what works and what does not. Always have biro & paper or other means to jot something down as it occurs to you -writing is not some ‘grand’ occupation at a desk!
Synopsis: A café closes for the winter and the waitress re-invents herself.
Performed by Esther Thibault
Matthew Toffolo's Summary 
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