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Welcome to Josh Barkey!

I'm a Nicholl finalisting, twice-Page-winning, Sundance and Tribeca selected writer of screenplays, novels, and the (extremely occasional) post on this website.  After growing up barefoot and wild on a mission center in the Amazon basin of Peru - catching and eating piranhas before they could catch and eat me -  I paid for an English/Art degree by hand-planting half a MILLION(ish) baby trees in Canadian dirt. Now I live in a shed in North Carolina, where  I write, paint, and even dabble in music-making.  So far in my life I've made or helped to make: A feature-length comedy film, PINK , which is available on Amazon Prime and other streaming platforms. 7 short films, like  TWO FOR TEA  and the 2020 Tribeca Official Selection, ABDUCTED ; Award winning   screenplays  like MARLENE THE DIVINE, which won the Page for comedy, was shortlisted for the Academy's Nicholl Fellowship, and was selected for a Sundance thingy; BOOKS  - including a short story collection , three

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I'M THINKING OF SH*TTING MYSELF

a Road, a Fox, and a Song

SONGWRITING

Music at a Distance

Ring the Bell

How Yoga (kinda) Cured My Depression and (possibly) Saved My Life

PAINTINGS

Books

SCREENPLAYS

PRODUCED FILMS

My first EP is now on Bandcamp!

My latest commissioned painting...