Writing & Journalism

Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 Writing & Journalism 135 Reg# 368151 Fee: $475 Writers’ Program No refund after 5 Aug. WRITING & m Online July 31-Sept. 10 Enrollment limited to 15 students. c Creative Writing Ronald Alexander, fiction writer and author of four For help in choosing a course or determining if a novels. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was course fulfills certificate requirements, contact the a finalist in the St. Andrews College Press Novella Writers’ Program at (310) 825-9415. Competition. His essays, poetry, and short stories have JOURNALISM been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review and The Los Angeles Review, among others. Basics of Writing WRITING X 420 These basic creative writing courses are for Nonfiction: Essential Beginnings students with no prior writing experience. 2.0 units Instruction is exercise-driven; the process of Sometimes the best stories are true. To help you turn workshopping—in which students are asked to your personal experiences, anecdotes from everyday share and offer feedback on each other’s work life, and family stories into compelling narratives, this with guidance from the instructor—is introduced. workshop teaches beginning writers the basic elements Please call an advisor at (310) 825-9415 to deter- of good storytelling. You learn how to excavate memo- mine which course will best help you reach your ries and discover fresh or unexpected facets of your life writing goals. stories. Through weekly exercises, you generate new material and learn an array of fictional techniques to WRITING X 400 tell your nonfiction story, including how to play with Introduction to Creative Writing voice, focus on a small unit of time, and describe 2.0 units landscape and character. By the course’s completion, WRITER’S PROGRAM 142 POETRY This six-week course is perfect for anyone just getting you will have in hand a series of short sketches or a started on their path to being a writer. Students work in draft of a nonfiction piece. small breakout sessions with experienced writers and Reg# 368070 CREATIVE WRITING 143 EDITING AND PUBLISHING teachers, then attend a lecture by various guest speak- Fee: $345 135 Basics of Writing ers with expertise in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or No refund after 22 July. SCREENWRITING screenwriting. Short assignments are workshopped in ❖ Classroom 136 Special Topics for All Writers the weekly breakouts. The goal of the course is to 6 mtgs 144 Special Topics for Film expose new writers to a variety of types of writing while Wednesday, 7-10pm, July 17-Aug. 21 getting their creative juices flowing. At the end of the UCLA: Kaplan Hall FICTION & Television Writers quarter, students will feel more confident about their Enrollment limited to 20 students. c & skills and will be prepared for further study of writing. Roberta Wax, freelance writer; former reporter, United 137 Beginning Fiction Writing FEATURE FILM Reg# 368478 Press International; former president, Society of Profes- Fee: $455 sional Journalists, Los Angeles Chapter. Ms. Wax is a 137 Intermediate Fiction Writing 145 Beginning Feature No refund after 25 July. contributor to many magazines and newspapers, 138 Advanced Fiction Writing Film Writing ❖ Classroom including the Los Angeles Times, Westways, Emmy, and 6 mtgs Animation, among others. Saturday, 1-4pm, July 20-Aug. 24 CREATIVE NONFICTION 146 Intermediate Feature Reg# 368069 Film Writing UCLA: School of Public Affairs Bldg. Fee: $475 Enrollment limited to 12 students. c No refund after 5 Aug. 139 Beginning Creative Norman Kolpas, author and editor whose several m Online Nonfiction Writing TELEVISION hundred nonfiction pieces have appeared in many July 31-Sept. 10 publications, including Bon Appetit, HOME, Elle, Sunset, Enrollment limited to 15 students. c 140 Intermediate Creative 146 Beginning Television Writing Southwest Art, and The Times of London. Mr. Kolpas liz gonzález, MFA, author of Dancing Santa Ana Winds: Nonfiction Writing also is the author of more than 40 nonfiction books and Poems y Cuentos New and Selected. Ms. gonzález’s 147 Intermediate Television consults with and ghost writes for many top personali- work has appeared in Wide Awake: The Poets of Los 140 Advanced Creative Writing ties and brands. Angeles and Beyond, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. She is the director and founder of Nonfication Writing 148 Advanced Television Writing WRITING X 410 Uptown Word & Arts, promoting literacy and the arts. Fiction: Essential Beginnings WRITING FOR YOUNG READERS 148 JOURNALISM 2.0 units WRITING X 461.5E Do you aspire to write creatively but don’t know where The Joy of Writing: 140 Writing Picture Books to start? This supportive workshop provides you with A Six-Week Workshop in Creativity many techniques to motivate and guide you. You learn 2.0 units 140 Writing for Kids and Middle how to transform observation and personal experience Too often writers value the completion of a new work Grade Readers into imaginative prose, create dynamic characters and over the process itself. In this intensive workshop, you dialogue, and write from different points of view. By the study and celebrate the creative process of writing 142 Writing for Young Adults end of the course, you will have in hand a series of through a series of weekly and in-class writing exer- short sketches or a draft of a short story and key tools cises. From the development of three-dimensional you need to write creatively. characters to the importance of conflict and objective, Reg# 368482 you draw from both personal life experience and pure For more information call Writers’ Program (310) 825-9415 Fee: $345 imagination to find the stories that mean the most to No refund after 4 Aug. you. The final goal of the workshop is a greater under- Journalism (310) 825-7093. ❖ Classroom standing of the craft of writing and the essential tools 6 mtgs necessary to take your work to the next level. WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY Tuesday, 7-10pm, July 30-Sept. 3 Reg# 368483 UCLA: School of Public Affairs Bldg. Fee: $345 Enrollment limited to 20 students. c No refund after 21 July. Tony DuShane, author of Confessions of a Teenage ❖ Classroom Jesus Jerk and award winning screenwriter of the 6 mtgs “The Writers’ Program class provided me with an adaptation directed by Eric Stoltz. His work has Tuesday, 11am-2pm, July 16-Aug. 20 appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Believer, UCLA Extension 1010 Westwood: amazing foundation of what I needed as a writer, Mother Jones, and he was a music columnist for the 1010 Westwood Blvd. San Francisco Chronicle. Steven Wolfson, MFA, award-winning playwright, and and I can, at different stages of my career, refer kkk founding member of The Mark Taper Forum’s Mentor Playwrights Project. A WGA member, Mr. Wolfson is the back to my notes and still learn more each time.” recipient of two UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Awards in Creative Writing and Screenwriting. — Zimran Jacob, former Writers’ Program student who was hired to write for television shows such as Hannibal, Narcos, Hemlock Grove, and F is For Family. 136 Writing & Journalism Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 WRITING X 413.3E Special Topics for All Writers Creating Universes, Building Worlds: 26th Annual Courses in this section are open to students who The Short Story in Science Fiction want a deeper understanding of a specific craft and Fantasy issue or area of study. These courses fulfill the 3.0 units elective requirement for creative writing certifi- How do you introduce an alien environment, create an cates. Please call an advisor at (310) 825-9415 to alternate timeline or magical realm, and then populate Publication Party determine which course will best help you reach it with characters whose problems matter to its read- your writing goals. ers—all in 5,000 words or less? Designed for those interested in focusing on short speculative fiction, this A Free Event! WRITING 760.1 course deepens your understanding of its many sub- Writing Retreat at Lake Arrowhead genres, including alternate history, horror, dark fantasy, Wednesday, June 12, 7–9:30pm Give yourself the gift of time to write away from the sword and sorcery, urban fantasy, sociological sci-fi, demands of your daily life. Join a small group of com- hard science fiction, and others. At the same time it Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:30pm mitted writers for four full days of uninterrupted writing immerses you in the writing principles common to all time at UCLA’s beautiful conference center on Lake of these genres. The course goal is to complete and Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles Arrowhead. Participants will enjoy private bedrooms, polish a short science fiction or fantasy story and to private baths, and three gourmet meals each day, along identify three appropriate markets for the finished piece. The featured readers are Writers’ with complimentary beverages all day long. The Writers’ Reg# 368491 Program instructors who have Program will coordinate some structured activities, Fee: $695 published work within the past year. including informal craft talks, pre-dinner social hours, No refund after 8 July. and nightly open mic events, but your time will ulti- m Online mately be yours to plan and enjoy. July 3-Sept. 10 Featured Readers Reg# 366793 Enrollment limited to 15 students. c Rick Bursky No refund after 15 July. Alyx Dellamonica, author of The Town on Blighted Sea, Independent Study/Internship a Year’s Best Science Fiction pick, and Indigo Springs, Stephen Cooper 6 mtgs a Sunburst Award winner. She has published short Sunday-Friday, Sept. 8-13 fiction in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Antonia Crane Lake Arrowhead SciFi.Com, and Realms of Fantasy.

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