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Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 Writing & Journalism 143 WRITING X 410 Fiction: Essential Beginnings Writers’ Program 2.0 units WRITING & Do you aspire to write creatively but don’t know where to start? This supportive workshop provides you with many techniques to motivate and guide you. You learn Creative Writing how to transform observation and personal experience For help in choosing a course or determining if a into imaginative prose, create dynamic characters and course fulfills certificate requirements, contact the dialogue, and write from different points of view. By the Writers’ Program at (310) 825-9415. end of the course, you will have in hand a series of JOURNALISM short sketches or a draft of a short story and key tools you need to write creatively. Basics of Writing Reg# 372873 Fee: $475 These basic creative writing courses are for No refund after 4 May. students with no prior writing experience. m Online Instruction is exercise-driven; the process of Apr. 29-June 9 workshopping—in which students are asked to Enrollment limited to 15 students. c share and offer feedback on each other’s work David Samuel Levinson, MFA, author of the novel with guidance from the instructor—is introduced. Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence and the story collec- Please call an advisor at (310) 825-9415 to deter- tion Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will. Mr. Levin- mine which course will best help you reach your son’s short stories have been published in Prairie writing goals. Schooner, The Brooklyn Review, and The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories. He was a top finalist for the WRITING X 400 Flannery O’Connor Short Story Prize. Introduction to Creative Writing 2.0 units WRITING X 420 WRITER’S PROGRAM 150 POETRY This six-week course is perfect for anyone just getting Nonfiction: Essential Beginnings started on their path to being a writer. Students work in 2.0 units small breakout sessions with experienced writers and Sometimes the best stories are true. To help you turn CREATIVE WRITING 151 EDITING AND PUBLISHING teachers, then attend a lecture by various guest speak- your personal experiences, anecdotes from everyday 143 Basics of Writing ers with expertise in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or life, and family stories into compelling narratives, this SCREENWRITING screenwriting. Short assignments are workshopped in workshop teaches beginning writers the basic elements 145 Special Topics for All Writers the weekly breakouts. The goal of the course is to of good storytelling. You learn how to excavate memo- 151 Special Topics for Film expose new writers to a variety of types of writing while ries and discover fresh or unexpected facets of your life & Television Writers getting their creative juices flowing. At the end of the stories. Through weekly exercises, you generate new FICTION quarter, students will feel more confident about their material and learn an array of fictional techniques to skills and will be prepared for further study of writing. tell your nonfiction story, including how to play with 146 Beginning Fiction Writing FEATURE FILM Reg# 372871 voice, focus on a small unit of time, and describe Fee: $455 landscape and character. By the course’s completion, 147 Intermediate Fiction Writing 153 Beginning Feature No refund after 7 May. you will have in hand a series of short sketches or a 148 Advanced Fiction Writing Film Writing ❖ Classroom draft of a nonfiction piece. 6 mtgs Reg# 372874 154 Intermediate Feature Saturday, 1-4pm, May 2-June 13 Fee: $475 CREATIVE NONFICTION UCLA: School of Public Affairs Bldg. No refund after 4 May. Film Writing No meeting May 16. 148 Beginning Creative m Online Enrollment limited to 12 students. c Apr. 29-June 9 154 Advanced Feature Norman Kolpas, author and editor whose several Nonfiction Writing Enrollment limited to 15 students. c Film Writing hundred nonfiction pieces have appeared in many Roberta Wax, freelance writer; former reporter, United 149 Intermediate Creative publications, including Bon Appetit, HOME, Elle, Sunset, Press International; former president, Society of Pro- Nonfiction Writing TELEVISION Southwest Art, and The Times of London. Mr. Kolpas fessional Journalists, Los Angeles Chapter. Ms. Wax is also is the author of more than 40 nonfiction books and a contributor to many magazines and newspapers, 149 Advanced Creative 155 Beginning Television Writing consults with and ghost writer for many top personali- including the Los Angeles Times, Westways, Emmy, ties and brands. and Animation. Nonfication Writing 155 Intermediate Television Reg# 372872 Fee: $455 WRITING X 461.1E WRITING FOR YOUNG READERS Writing No refund after 7 May. Emotion Into Art: 156 Advanced Television Writing ❖ Classroom Infusing Your Writing with Feeling 150 Writing Picture Books 6 mtgs 2.0 units Saturday, 1-4pm, May 2-June 6 How do writers make you laugh and cry? This course 157 JOURNALISM UCLA: School of Public Affairs Bldg. is designed for beginners and those who want to juice Enrollment limited to 12 students. c up their writing and gain mastery to do both. You begin Colette Sartor, MFA, fiction writer, author of the story by exploring emotion-packed fiction, short prose, and collection Once Removed and Other Stories, and win- poems to discover tips, tricks, and strategies to make ner of the 2018 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short readers ache, cheer characters on, or hold their sides Fiction. Ms. Sartor’s work has appeared in Kenyon with laughter. You also learn about gesture, pacing, Review Online, Carve Magazine, Slice Magazine, tone, juxtaposition, hyperbole, personification, double For more information call Writers ’ Program (310) 825-9415 Chicago Tribune, Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, entendres, and more. Through stimulating writing and elsewhere. exercises, you are encouraged to find your own voice Journalism (310) 825-7093. and create short writing (prose or poems) about yourself and/or fictional characters that can attract the attention WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY of readers and editors. Reg# 372875 Fee: $475 No refund after 4 May. m Online “ As a graduate of the UCLA Extension Writers’ Apr. 29-June 9 Enrollment limited to 15 students. c & Program, I studied with so many incredible, gifted Rochelle J. Shapiro, author of Miriam the Medium and Kaylee’s Ghost. Ms. Shapiro’s essays have been pub- and generous teachers. The Extension program lished in The New York Times and Newsweek. Her short stories and poems have been published in many anthologies and literary magazines, such as The Iowa taught me about creative nonfiction.” Review, Sedge, and Moment. — Tembi Locke, former Writers’ Program student whose memoir, From Scratch, is a New York Times Bestseller. 144 Writing & Journalism Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 Welcome Our New Writers’ Program Instructors for Spring! Angela Bole, chief executive Linda Camacho, agent at Monica Holloway, critically officer of the Independent Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency acclaimed author of the Publishers Association representing award-winning memoirs Driving with Dead Self-Publishing children’s and adult fiction. People and award-winning Cowboy & Wills. Page 151. Contracts, Rights, and Signing Authors Memoir I Page 151. Page 149. Teri Brown-Jackson, WGA Christa Desir, freelance Aatif Rashid, author of television writer and producer content and copy editor for Portrait of Sebastian Khan; whose credits include The multiple publishers and has published short stories Parkers, Tyler Perry’s House of author of contemporary and nonfiction in a variety of Payne, and That’s So Raven. young adult fiction. publications and is a regular Beginning Writing for the Copyediting I m contributor to The Kenyon Review blog. Half-Hour Spec I Page 151. Page 155. Setting and Description Page 146. For advisement on courses or to learn about our certificates call (310) 825-9415 or email [email protected]. The Writers’ Program The Young and Is Going Places! The Reckless Writers’ Program at AWP & Wondercon Writing for Teens—A Young Adult Writing Symposium AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference Save the Date! Booth #863 Saturday, August 29, 8-5:30pm Thursday–Sunday, March 5–8 UCLA Extension Gayley Center, 1145 Gayley Ave. Henry B. González Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas AWP is the largest gathering of writers in North America, drawing more than 12,000 Offered by the UCLA Extension Writers’ The $79 registration fee includes attendees each year. Swing by our Bookfair booth to get your hands on Writers’ Program Program, The Young and the Reckless: • Keynote presentation Writing for Teens brings together the swag and learn about new programs. Meet up with Writers’ Program instructors, students, • Two 1-hour special topic sessions alumni, and staff at our Writers’ Program networking reunion event reception on writing community and some of Southern Panel presentations with special guests Saturday, March 7. California’s most accomplished writers • and teachers in writing for young adults. • Reception and light refreshments Wondercon This symposium will include the oppor- Book signing tunity to hear from keynote speakers • Booth #611 and engage with authors in several inter- Friday–Sunday, April 10–12 active formats, including special topic Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California sessions and multi-author question and WonderCon is the sister show to San Diego Comic-Con and draws 66,000 fans of comics, answer panels. movies, TV, animation, literature, and more. Learn from Writers’ Program instructors at our Wondercon panels. Meet staff at our booth and spin the wheel to win limited edition Writers’ Program swag. For More Information For More Information [email protected] | (310) 825-9415 | writers.uclaextension.edu (310) 825-9415 | writers.uclaextension.edu Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 Writing & Journalism 145 best examples of gay fiction/nonfiction in order to Special Topics for All Writers integrate their qualities into our own work, striving to say something new and fresh in a very crowded and Courses in this section are open to students who New Creative Writing well-established field.