Oct 10, 2019 | Success Stories
Former student Brenda Marie Smith’s novel If Darkness Takes Us won the 2018 Southern Fried Karma Novel Contest and will be published on October 15th. Brenda says of her writing journey, “I didn’t get to take classes or start writing until my kids were grown,...
Oct 3, 2019 | Success Stories
Former student Thuc Nguyen is currently in Round 2 The Sundance Institute Development Labs with a drama feature with a Vietnamese-American woman lead. She’s also a finalist in the InnovAsian screenwriting contest with a comedy: #MindyWuTranVersusSiliconBeach. Of her...
Sep 26, 2019 | Success Stories
Recent student Jamie Della is having a run of successes. Jamie notes, “Several of my writing assignments from the UCLA Extension online classes were published with the help of my instructors and fellow students’ critique. In addition, the writing and reading...
Sep 12, 2019 | Success Stories
Current student Daniel Pope’s short story “Making a Difference” was recently published in Narrative Magazine. Of his experience in the Writers’ Program classes, Daniel says, “Ben Loory and Lou Mathews brought clarity and discernment to the study of...
Aug 29, 2019 | Success Stories
Former Writers’ Program student, Carolyn Bishop, has placed 2nd in The Raymond Carver Short Story Contest; her submission, “Gravity House,” will appear in Carve’s fall issue. This year she earned her MFA in writing from Pacific University, Oregon, and is currently at...
Aug 15, 2019 | Success Stories
Former student Cindy Lin’s debut novel, The Twelve, was published last month. It is the first in a new fantasy adventure series by Harper Collins Children’s Books, and is a Junior Library Guild selection and recently made the SoCal Indie Bestseller List. Cindy is...
