150 Writing & Journalism Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 Reg# 366679 Fee: $455 Writers’ Program No refund after 18 Apr. WRITING & ❖ Classroom 6 mtgs Saturday, 1-4pm, Apr. 13-May 18 Creative Writing UCLA: School of Public Affairs Bldg. Enrollment limited to 12 students. For help in choosing a course or determining if a c course fulfills certificate requirements, contact the Harry Youtt, fiction writer and Pushcart Prize-nomi- Writers’ Program at (310) 825-9415. nated poet whose recent collections include I’ll Always JOURNALISM Be from Lorain and Outbound for Elsewhere. Mr. Youtt is a co-recipient of the UCLA Extension Outstanding Distinguished Instructor Award and the UCLA Extension Basics of Writing Instructor Award in Creative Writing. These basic creative writing courses are for Judith Prager, PhD, fiction and nonfiction writer whose students with no prior writing experience. works include The Newman Factor, Verbal First Aid and Instruction is exercise-driven; the process of The Worst Is Over: What to Say When Every Moment workshopping—in which students are asked to Counts. She is a co-recipient of the UCLA Extension share and offer feedback on each other’s work Distinguished Instructor Award and the UCLA Extension with guidance from the instructor—is introduced. Outstanding Instructor Award in Creative Writing. Please call an advisor at (310) 825-9415 to deter- mine which course will best help you reach your WRITING X 420 writing goals. Nonfiction: Essential Beginnings 2.0 units NEW Sometimes the best stories are true. To help you turn WRITING X 404 your personal experiences, anecdotes from everyday Defeating Distraction: life, and family stories into compelling narratives, this WRITER’S PROGRAM 155 POETRY Creating a Writing Practice workshop teaches beginning writers the basic elements 2.0 units of good storytelling. You learn how to excavate memo- Whether you are writing a screenplay, short story, per- ries and discover fresh or unexpected facets of your life CREATIVE WRITING 156 EDITING AND PUBLISHING sonal essay, or not even writing yet at all (but would like stories. Through weekly exercises, you generate new 150 Basics of Writing to!), the way to create and finish any project is through material and learn an array of fictional techniques to SCREENWRITING a consistent and committed writing practice. The regular tell your nonfiction story, including how to play with 151 Special Topics for All Writers discipline of writing can feel elusive and at times unat- voice, focus on a small unit of time, and describe 157 Special Topics for Film tainable, but it can be done! In this course, students learn landscape and character. By the course’s completion, & Television Writers the fundamentals of creating a lasting writing practice as you will have in hand a series of short sketches or a FICTION well as concrete tools to employ as defenses against draft of a nonfiction piece. procrastination and writer’s block. Class time will consist Reg# 366414 152 Beginning Fiction Writing FEATURE FILM of lectures, in-class writing prompts, and exercises to Fee: $345 build craft, with homework assignments geared towards No refund after 28 Apr. 152 Intermediate Fiction Writing 159 Beginning Feature setting manageable goals and accountability. Think of it ❖ Classroom 153 Advanced Fiction Writing Film Writing as “Couch to 5K” personal training—but for writing. 6 mtgs Rather than focusing on revising or improving a particular Tuesday, 7-10pm, Apr. 23-May 28 160 Intermediate Feature writing project, the class will focus solely on committing UCLA: Kaplan Hall CREATIVE NONFICTION Enrollment limited to 20 students. Film Writing to the writing practice itself. By the end of the course, c & 153 Beginning Creative students will have the skills to build a sustainable writing liz gonzález, MFA, author of Dancing Santa Ana Winds: 160 Advanced Feature practice that they can maintain long after the class is Poems y Cuentos New and Selected. Ms. gonzález’s Nonfiction Writing over. All levels of writers are welcome. work has appeared in Wide Awake: The Poets of Los Film Writing Reg# 366413 Angeles and Beyond, and the San Francisco Chronicle, 154 Intermediate Creative Fee: $345 among others. She is the director and founder of TELEVISION No refund after 16 Apr. Uptown Word & Arts, promoting literacy and the arts. Nonfiction Writing ❖ Classroom Reg# 366415 155 Advanced Creative 161 Beginning Television Writing 6 mtgs Fee: $475 Thursday, 7-10pm, Apr. 11-May 16 No refund after 6 May. Nonfication Writing 162 Intermediate Television UCLA: Kaplan Hall m Online Writing Enrollment limited to 20 students. c May 1-June 11 WRITING FOR YOUNG READERS Cole Kazdin, MS, writer, performer, and Emmy-winning Enrollment limited to 15 students. c 162 Advanced Television Writing television journalist. Ms. Kazdin is a regular contributor Roberta Wax, freelance writer; former reporter, United 155 Writing Picture Books to VICE and has written for The New York Times. She Press International; former president, Society of Profes- is a three-time Moth GrandSLAM champion, and tells sional Journalists, Los Angeles Chapter. Ms. Wax is a 155 Writing for Kids and Middle 163 JOURNALISM stories onstage all across the country, on NPR, and in contributor to many magazines and newspapers, the book, All These Wonders. including the Los Angeles Times, Westways, Emmy, and Grade Readers Animation, among others. 155 Writing for Young Adults WRITING X 400 Introduction to Creative Writing WRITING X 410 2.0 units Fiction: Essential Beginnings This six-week course is perfect for anyone just getting 2.0 units For more information call Writers’ Program (310) 825-9415 started on their path to being a writer. Students work in Do you aspire to write creatively but don’t know where Journalism (310) 825-7093 small breakout sessions with experienced writers and to start? This supportive workshop provides you with teachers, then attend a lecture by various guest speak- many techniques to motivate and guide you. You learn ers with expertise in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or how to transform observation and personal experience screenwriting. Short assignments are workshopped in into imaginative prose, create dynamic characters and WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY the weekly breakouts. The goal of the course is to dialogue, and write from different points of view. By the expose new writers to a variety of types of writing while end of the course, you will have in hand a series of getting their creative juices flowing. At the end of the short sketches or a draft of a short story and key tools quarter, students will feel more confident about their you need to write creatively. skills and will be prepared for further study of writing. “ Classes taught through the Writers’ Program kkk helped give me the structure I needed to kkk pursue a writing career.” — Brian Dunlap, former Writers’ Program student whose poetry chapbook, Concrete Paradise, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 Writing & Journalism 151 Reg# 366524 WRITING X 461.2E Fee: $345 Power Up Your Writing: Deeper No refund after 29 Apr. Characters, Deeper Truths ❖ Classroom New Creative Writing 2.0 units 6 mtgs How do writers create work that electrifies readers and Wednesday, 7-10pm, Apr. 24-May 29 stays with them long after they have turned the last UCLA: School of Public Affairs Bldg. page? One key is that they create characters who live Enrollment limited to 20 students. c on in the readers’ minds; another is that they dig into Courses for Spring Tony DuShane, Author of Confessions of a Teenage their own hearts and minds to reveal deeper truths. Jesus Jerk and award winning screenwriter of the Whether you’re writing fiction, poetry, memoir, or essay, adaptation directed by Eric Stoltz. His work has this course helps you to do both. The process of being Behind the Scenes in Publishing: Defeating Distraction: appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Believer, able to create memorable characters includes building Mother Jones, and he was a music columnist for the the vivid worlds they live in, and exploring how they 3-Hour Workshop Creating a Writing Practice San Francisco Chronicle.. reveal who they are—and what they want—through Page 156. Page 150. Reg# 366523 action and speech, as well as through what they own, Fee: $475 wear, value, and desire. The body as a metaphor for How to Create Original Middle Grade Setting and Description No refund after 6 May. feelings about ourselves and others is explored, and Concepts: 3-Hour Workshop m Online visual arts—painting, sculpture, photography—offer Page 151. May 1-June 11 pathways to get at your own truths. In revising your Page 155. Romance Writing I Enrollment limited to 15 students. c work, you gain tools for going deep into the story to Ronald Alexander, fiction writer and author of four reveal rich, new insights. Suitable for beginners and Picture Book II Page 152. novels. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was experienced writers. Page 155. a finalist in the St. Andrews College Press Novella Reg# 366526 Competition. His essays, poetry, and short stories have Fee: $475 Poetry Toolbox been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review and No refund after 6 May. The Los Angeles Review, among others. m Online Page 155. May 1-June 11 WRITING X 402 Enrollment limited to 15 students. c Finding Your Voice Rochelle J. Shapiro, author of Miriam the Medium and 2.0 units Kaylee’s Ghost. Ms. Shapiro’s essays have been pub- You’ve lived, listened, seen, had a childhood—there’s lished in The New York Times and Newsweek. Her short your raw material. Now it’s a question of channeling stories and poems have been published in many and shaping that experience with the tools of literary anthologies and literary magazines, such as The Iowa craft.