Success Stories

Success: Amanda Eberhardt Featured on Deadline

Success: Amanda Eberhardt Featured on Deadline

This past pride month, Writers’ Program student Amanda Eberhardt was featured in Deadline as an Out Loud List honoree for “Best Unproduced TV Scripts” by Out in Hollywood for their TV pilot Glorious Empire, the true story of Rome’s first and only trans female empress,...

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Success: Michele Karpel’s Script Placements

Success: Michele Karpel’s Script Placements

Former student Michele Karpel has recently garnered success on the festival circuit, “my screenplay Broad Band, has won three best screenplay awards. Most recently, the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival.” On her experience in the Writers’ Program, “Thanks for this...

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Success: Aurora Lewis New Memoir Collection

Success: Aurora Lewis New Memoir Collection

Former student Aurora Lewis new memoir collection was released this past April and is now available on Amazon. In Aurora’s own words “Since completing the UCLA Extension Creative Writing program I have published over 250 pieces. My latest self-published book Jigsaw...

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Success: Mylo Lam’s Chapbook Publication

Success: Mylo Lam’s Chapbook Publication

Former student Mylo Lam has won the Editor’s Choice award at Quarterly West for his chapbook AND NOT / AND YET, and it will be published soon. Mylo says of the experience, “I have built some [success] these past few years. The challenge continues to be that there is...

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Success: Lena Nelson’s Debut Book

Success: Lena Nelson’s Debut Book

Former student Lena Nelson’s first book, America’s Youngest Ambassador: The Cold War Story of Samantha’s Smith Lasting Message of Peace, releases in the US on June 1, 2023. “The tale of ten-year-old Samantha Smith, who in the fall of 1982 wrote to the Soviet leader...

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Success: Hillary Yablon’s Upcoming Novel

Success: Hillary Yablon’s Upcoming Novel

Student and 2020 winner of the Allegra Johnson Prize, Hillary Yabon, has recently sold her novel! It will be published in 2024. Hilary says, “The fact that this book is going to be out in the world is one of the great honors of my life.  I never thought I would be...

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Feature Articles

Lessons to Learn from Stephen King

Lessons to Learn from Stephen King

Last Thursday, September 21st, marked the 76th birthday of one of the 21st century’s most prolific and commercially successful writers in the world. Stephen King has penned over 70 novels and 200 short stories. A quick peruse of IMDB reveals that he has over 336...

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