Demetrious Polychron began winning awards for writing in junior high and in high school won the National Forensics League’s regional championships in Original Prose & Poetry. A nationally published poet at eighteen, after serving in the US Navy he moved to Los Angeles and became an internationally published journalist.
He has served on committees and boards for local and national political campaigns, charities and one arts foundation, The Alameda Writers Group, formerly the in-house writer’s group for ABC/Disney. As the AWG’s Executive Vice-President, he hosted workshops and mentored poets, screenwriters and novelists.
His first screenplay “The Unknown Actor” tells the story of how Shakespeare became Shakespeare. This script became a semifinalist at Slamdance in Park City, Utah and at the prestigious Nicholl Fellowships In Screenwriting, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. He has written over 400 poems and ten screenplays. “The Fellowship Of The King” is his first published novel.
