Apr 7, 2022 | Success Stories
Gina Sorell is a graduate with distinction from the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Publishers Weekly called her debut novel Mothers and Other Strangers “mesmerizing,” Good Housekeeping called it “riveting,” and it was one of Self and Refinery29’s best books of 2017....
Feb 3, 2022 | Success Stories
Former student Noah Lemelson had his first novel published in late 2021. Noah says, “I released my first novel, The Sightless City, from Tiny Fox Press. It’s a gritty steampunk fantasy that I started on during my time at UCLA Extension, and which has won a First...
Dec 9, 2021 | Success Stories
Former student Tracy Moore published her debut novel recently. She says of the experience, “I believed my big success in life was to be a firefighter and then I wrote a novel. Writing a book where women, not only firefighters, but women are celebrated despite...
Jun 1, 2021 | Feature Articles
Sometimes it seems the past year-ish has made time stand still. Other times, it’s like a year happened in a day. For the Writers’ Program staff, a clear marker of time passage has always been the graduation of our UCLA work studies. Throughout the years, these...
Apr 27, 2021 | Feature Articles
By Noemi VanSlyke Despite being the book-lover that I am, for years I was unable to rouse up the courage to pick up one of those hefty classics by Charles Dickens. I’d heard horror stories—sentences that go on for pages and scenes that never end—but I’d also heard...