Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 Writing & Journalism 133 WRITING & Writers’ Program Course JOURNALISM Instruction Formats The Writers’ Program courses are offered in both Online and live Remote Instruction formats. Take a look at the advantages of these delivery systems. Online Instruction Remote Instruction • Lectures and coursework are available • Lectures and coursework are delivered at and accessible online at any time specific times and dates • Self-paced with deadlines to keep you • Immediate feedback and workshopping on track live on Zoom • Workshopping is conducted via • Writing process is a more collaborative discussion boards experience • More written feedback • Greater group participation WRITER’S PROGRAM 143 POETRY • Writing can be done more independently CREATIVE WRITING 144 EDITING AND PUBLISHING Click “View Course Options” on our website course page to determine if a course is 133 Basics of Writing available through “Online” and/or “Remote Instruction.” When both options are offered, SCREENWRITING click on your choice of format for the schedule and instructor information. 135 Special Topics for All Writers 145 Special Topics for Film FICTION & Television Writers 138 Beginning Fiction Writing FEATURE FILM 139 Intermediate Fiction Writing For More Information 147 Beginning Feature [email protected] | (310) 825-9415 140 Advanced Fiction Writing Film Writing uclaextension.edu/instruction-methods CREATIVE NONFICTION 149 Intermediate Feature Film Writing Reg# 380530 140 Beginning Creative Writers’ Program Fee: $30 149 Advanced Feature No refund after 6 Aug. Nonfiction Writing ❖ Film Writing Remote Instruction 141 Intermediate Creative 1 mtg Creative Writing Saturday, 10am-1pm, Aug. 7 c Nonfiction Writing TELEVISION Cole Kazdin, MS, writer, performer, and Emmy-winning For help in choosing a course or determining if a course television journalist. Ms. Kazdin is a regular contributor to 142 Advanced Creative 149 Beginning Television Writing fulfills certificate requirements, contact the Writers’ Program VICE and has written for The New York Times. She is a at (310) 825-9415. three-time Moth GrandSLAM champion and tells stories Nonfication Writing 150 Intermediate Television onstage all across the country, on NPR, and in the book All These Wonders. WRITING FOR YOUNG READERS Writing Basics of Writing 151 Advanced Television Writing These basic creative writing courses are for students WRITING X 400 143 Writing for Kids and Middle with no prior writing experience. Instruction is exer- Introduction to Creative Writing Grade Readers 151 JOURNALISM cise-driven; the process of workshopping—in which 2.0 units students are asked to share and offer feedback on This six-week course is perfect for anyone just getting each other’s work with guidance from the instruc- started on their path to being a writer. Students work in tor—is introduced. Please call an advisor at (310) small breakout sessions with experienced writers and 825-9415 to determine which course will best help you teachers, then attend a lecture by various guest speakers reach your writing goals. with expertise in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or screenwriting. Short assignments are workshopped in the weekly breakout WRITING 704 sessions. The goal of the course is to expose new writers to For more information call Writers’ Program (310) 825-9415 Defeating Distraction: Creating a Writing a variety of types of writing while getting their creative Practice One Day Workshop juices flowing. At the end of the quarter, students feel more Journalism (310) 825-7093. confident about their skills and are prepared for further Whether you are writing a screenplay, short story, personal study of writing. essay, or not even writing yet at all (but would like to!), the WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY way to create and finish any project is through a consistent Reg# 380526 and committed writing practice. The regular discipline of Fee: $475 writing can feel elusive and at times unattainable, but it can No refund after 7 Aug. be done! In this course, students learn the fundamentals of ❖ Remote Instruction “ As a graduate of the UCLA Extension Writers’ creating a lasting writing practice as well as concrete tools 6 mtgs to employ as defenses against procrastination and writer’s Saturday, 1-4pm, July 24-Aug. 28 block. Class time will consist of lectures, in-class writing Enrollment limited to 12 students. c Program, I studied with so many incredible, gifted prompts, and exercises to build craft. Think of it as “Couch liz gonzález, MFA, author of Dancing Santa Ana Winds: to 5K” personal training—but for writing. Rather than focus- Poems y Cuentos New and Selected. Ms. gonzález’s work and generous teachers. The Extension program ing on revising or improving a particular writing project, the has appeared in Wide Awake: The Poets of Los Angeles and class focuses solely on committing to the writing practice Beyond, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. itself. All levels of writers are welcome. She is the director and founder of Uptown Word & Arts, taught me about creative nonfiction.” promoting literacy and the arts. — Tembi Locke, former Writers’ Program student whose memoir, kkk From Scratch, is a New York Times Bestseller. 134 Writing & Journalism Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 27th Annual New Creative Writing Publication Party Courses for Summer A Free Zoom Event! Mystery Novel II m LGBTQ Writing Workshop m Wednesday, June 9, 7–9:30pm Instructor: Kris Neri Instructor: Jennifer Chukwu Page 139. Page 135. To register for this event, see Reg# 381436 on our website. Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel I m Applying to Residencies UCLA Extension Writers’ Program students and friends are cordially invited to Instructor: Alyx Dellamonica and Fellowships m attend our 27th annual Publication Party. Page 138. Instructor: Ploi Pirapokin Join us for spirited readings, an online book sale, and the opportunity to meet Women of Color Workshop Page 135. fellow writers. Instructor: Sehba Sarwar Literary Agent Query Prep for Writers The featured readers are Writers’ Instructor: Eve Porinchak Program instructors who have published Page 135. work within the two past years. Page 144. Featured Readers M Offered online. Rosebud Ben-Oni Eileen Cronin Mieke Eerkens “ You’ll never know whether your Liska Jacobs writing has legs, wheels, or wings, Rachel Kann until you submit.” Cole Kazdin — Ploi Pirapokin Paul Mandelbaum Lou Mathews Aminah Mae Safi, a featured reader at this year’s Publication Party Ploi Pirapokin Aatif Rashid Aminah Mae Safi Sehba Sarwar For More Information For advisement on courses or to learn about our certificates call (310) 825-9415 or writers.uclaextension.edu/events/publication-party email [email protected]. WRITING X 403 WRITING X 410 WRITING X 420 Finding Your Story Fiction: Essential Beginnings Nonfiction: Essential Beginnings Course Icons 2.0 units 2.0 units 2.0 units The scariest part of writing is staring at that blank page! Do you aspire to write creatively but don’t know where to Sometimes the best stories are true. To help you turn your Provide This workshop is for anyone who has wanted to write but start? This supportive workshop provides you with many personal experiences, anecdotes from everyday life, and doesn’t know where to start or for writers who feel stuck techniques to motivate and guide you. You learn how to family stories into compelling narratives, this workshop Information and need a new form or jumping off point for unique story transform observation and personal experience into teaches beginning writers the basic elements of good ideas. The course provides a safe, playful atmosphere to imaginative prose, create dynamic characters and dia- storytelling. You learn how to excavate memories and dis- experiment with different resources for stories, such as life logue, and write from different points of view. By the end cover fresh or unexpected facets of your life stories. At-a-Glance experiences, news articles, interviews, history, and mythol- of the course, you will have in hand a series of short Through weekly exercises, you generate new material and ogy. A series of in-class exercises explore or introduce dif- sketches or a draft of a short story and the key tools you learn an array of fictional techniques to tell your nonfiction m ONLINE COURSE ferent writing forms—such as short stories, personal essay, need to write creatively. story, including how to play with voice, focus on a small unit Technical requirements, page 5. plays, and even poems or songs—and generate a notebook Reg# 380527 of time, and describe landscape and character. By the filled with unique story ideas from which you craft several Fee: $475 course’s completion, you have in hand a series of short g HYBRID COURSE, page 5. short pieces. No refund after 11 Aug. sketches or a draft of a nonfiction piece. Reg# 380529 m Online Reg# 380528 c WEB-ENHANCED COURSE, page 5. Fee: $475 July 28-Sept. 7 Fee: $475 ❖ REMOTE INSTRUCTION, page 5. No refund after 11 Aug. Enrollment limited to 15 students. c No refund after 11 Aug. m Online Ronald Alexander, fiction writer and author of four novels. m Online & TEXTBOOK REQUIRED July 28-Sept. 7 He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist July 28-Sept. 7 Visit our website for textbook Enrollment limited to 15 students. c in the St. Andrews College Press Novella Competition. His Enrollment limited to 15 students. c information. Rochelle J. Shapiro, author of Miriam the Medium and essays, poetry, and short stories have been published in the Roberta Wax, freelance writer; former reporter, United Press Kaylee’s Ghost. Ms. Shapiro’s essays have been published Chicago Quarterly Review and The Los Angeles Review, International; former president, Society of Professional C UC CREDIT in The New York Times and Newsweek. Her short stories among others. Journalists, Los Angeles Chapter. Ms. Wax is a contributor May be transferable to other and poems have been published in many anthologies to many magazines and newspapers, including the Los colleges and universities, page 6.