Public Email: sterlingwpublic@gmail.com
Sterling Wesson is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. He specializes in screenplays, but also writes video essays, poetry, and short narrative fiction. He writes multiple genres but primarily science fiction, crime, and romance stories. Nature and the natural environment often plays a role in his stories due to his upbringing on a tiny island of less than 5000 people. Sterling later moved to Victoria to pursue a Bachelors degree, double majoring in Creative Writing and Art History/Visual Studies.
PROJECTS
Allure, Feature Film, 2025.
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Director, Writer, Producer, Editor.
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Synopsis: When shy history major Dakota meets confident, mysterious, occult-loving Lily, sparks fly. But after Lily disappears without saying so much as goodbye, Dakota tumbles into a spider's web of lies and half-truths as she tries to track her crush's whereabouts. Dakota races against time to solve the mystery—only to realize the Lily she knew might not have ever existed at all, was maybe never even human.
Null Millenium, Short Film, 2025.
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Director, Editor.
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Synopsis: An experimental short film on the effects of 9/11 compiled from archival material.
How Not to Write a Song, Short Film, 2020
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Director, Writer, Editor, Actor.
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Synopsis: A musician struggling to create the last song for a successful album attempts to find inspiration.
PUBLICATIONS
Metastellar:
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USS Callister: Into Infinity – Black Mirror’s Cosmically Complex Finale, 01/2026.
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Black Mirror’s Eulogy: How To Regret Every Bad Thing You’ve Ever Done, 01/2026.
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Black Mirror’s Plaything: A Brutally Cute Episode, 12/2025.
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Hotel Reverie: Black Mirror’s Escapist Episode, 11/2025.
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Black Mirror’s Bête Noire: Great Concept, Shallow Execution, 11/2025.
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Common People: Black Mirror’s Sad Commentary on American Healthcare, 09/2025.
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Black Mirror’s Loch Henry and Questions of Exploitation in True Crime, 05/2025.
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After Yang: The Case for Slow-Moving Sci-Fi, 12/2024.
Sundew:
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Mother Nature Reclaims Her Lost Soul, Fiction, Issue 5, 09/2025.
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Changing Seasons, Poetry, Issue 4, 02/2025.
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Leap Year, Give and Take, Nice to Eat You, Poetry, Issue 3, 10/2024.
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Senior Editor, The Warren Undergraduate Review 10/2025 – Present
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Organizing room bookings and scheduling with UVic’s writing department.
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Attending biweekly staff meetings to brainstorm event ideas and plan future publications.
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Sorted and assessed writing submissions from UVic’s student body.
Digital Transcriptionist, Smithsonian Institute, 01/2021 – 05/2025
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Transcribed documents and audio recordings to further global outreach of Smithsonian information to those with disabilities or limited access to unbiased news sources.
AWARDS/ACCOLADES
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Margaret Catherine Seens Scholarship.
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Certified Minister (U.S.A.)
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District Authority Scholarship.
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Cleopatrick LOVE YOU Video Contest Winner.