Jul 2, 2020 | Success Stories
Former student Nell Beckerman had her first picture book published earlier this year. She says of the experience, “I took Writing Picture Books on a whim, but quickly got very inspired by the form. In the second-to-last class, the instructor assigned a writing...
Jun 25, 2020 | Success Stories
Former student Karen Germain recently had a non-fiction piece, “Weight,” published in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Karen says, “I wrote this story In Sharon Bray’s Writing to Heal class, during my first quarter at UCLA...
Jun 18, 2020 | Success Stories
Instructor Shawna Kenney recently won 2nd place in the Los Angeles Press Club’s ‘Life in the Time of the Coronavirus’ essay contest. The prize came with a $500 award and publication on the Press Club’s site, “to serve as a historical document of the times.” Of...
Jun 4, 2020 | Success Stories
Student Pam Wiedenbeck achieved a long term goal last fall with the publication of her book, “Pam, You Not Doing Job.” Pam credits the Writers’ Program with helping to achieve this goal, saying, “If it had not been for the Writers Studio and...
May 28, 2020 | Success Stories
TV & Film Development and Writing Certificates alumnus Cass Ford is thrilled to share that her debut novel, Prince of Sin, is a finalist at the upcoming 2020 Independent Audiobook Awards, part of the HEAR Now Festival. The sultry erotic romance takes place in Los...
May 21, 2020 | Success Stories
Former student Parnaz Foroutan published her memoir Home is a Stranger earlier this year, about her journey back to Iran as a young woman, two decades after her family fled the rise of the Islamic Theocracy. Parnaz also wrote the novel Girl from the Garden, which...
