Fred DeVecca was born in Philadelphia and raised in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He has a BA in English Literature from Wilkes University (when it was still Wilkes College) and attended film school at Maine Media Workshops & College at Rockport, ME.

Fred has been a screenwriter, photographer, and free-lance writer, mostly in the sports and arts & entertainment fields, for over 30 years. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA), Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA), Valley Advocate (Amherst, MA), Greenfield (MA) Recorder, Shelburne Falls & West County Independent, Preview Massachusetts (Northampton), Leisure Weekly (Keene, NH), and Baseball Underground. An essay on hardboiled detective fiction and a segment from his (unpublished) novel Act of Contrition appeared in the Scottish mystery magazine Noir Originals in 2004.

He has written, produced, directed, edited, and acted in four films of his own and has worked on several more as production assistant, location scout, set decorator, grip/electric, and assistant director. From 1996 to 1998 he was a producer at TV6 Greenfield (MA) Community TV.

Fred was a member of the Marlboro Morris Men from 1986 to 2020 and from 1999 to 2017 he managed Pothole Pictures, a non-profit, community-run movie theater. (now retired)

His mystery novel THE NUTTING GIRL was published by Coffeetown Press in 2017.

Six of his short stories have recently been published in Men Matters Online Journal, Killer Nashville, Luminara, Freedom Fiction Journal, Literary Garage, and Bristol Noir. He lives in Shelburne Falls, MA where he enjoys reading, writing, swimming, film, music (especially rock and traditional folk), Morris dancing, making pizza, meditation, following the Red Sox, all things noir, a stimulating community of friends, walking the New England countryside, and his long-haired German Shepherd Layla.

AWARDS –

1998 – 3^rd Prize – Microbudget Film Festival – New York – for Hellhouse Moon

1998 – finalist – Massachusetts Film Office Screenwriting Competition – for Apparition Falls

1997 – finalist – Austin (TX) Heart of Film Screenwriting Contest – for Apparition Falls