Dylan McKenna

Dylan McKenna is a recent graduate of the Creative Writing Program. He will be presenting his senior project, a novel-in-progress titled “AWARD SEASON”.

Set inside a labor camp nuzzled away in the isolated mountains of southern California, Award Season follows the brutal production on a new season of a reality TV show, wherein the Contestants, who are obsessed with airdates of when their demise will broadcast, are eliminated before the cameras in cruel and unusual ways by the crew. This is the story of 12-year-old Helmut, a low-level worker on the show, who suspects he’s being kept in the dark by the producers as to the true nature of the program, and who is determined to climb the production hierarchy in order to obtain enough power to escape the drudgery of his laboring days.