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SCRIPT 791.9
Get tips and advice directly from experienced TV writers on how to pitch yourself and your work.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT 726.17
Get an overview of the process to adapt existing intellectual property (IP) for film and television.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 413.8E
Before an agent ever gets hold of your novel, you must go through numerous revisions to present your best possible effort. As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, writing is rewriting, and the story of…
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 412.4
Get a guided approach to rewriting your completed script as you assess your draft and identify areas to strengthen and celebrate.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 14, 2025
SCRIPT X 423.7
Craft a polished pitch deck or show bible to help you sell your original pilot.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 423.9
In this fast-paced workshop, you take a pilot from concept to script as you learn about the television industry from guest speakers.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 412.3
Get individualized feedback on your script in progress in this workshop for advanced screenwriting students.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT 726.13
Learn what goes into a successful TV pilot.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 421.5
Learn what goes into a successful TV pilot as you develop your original idea into a concise pitch document.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING 745.3E
Explore symbolic elements of children's literature as inspiration for enhancing these aspects of your own book projects.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 19, 2024
WRITING 761.13
Get an overview of how M.F.A. programs are structured, what opportunities they can offer you, and how to ensure your needs are met.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 26, 2024
WRITING 761.12
Get insight into how to locate support opportunities for writers, from funding to time to write.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 464.6E
Focus on your craft, your strengths as a writer, and your career goals in this writing workshop developed expressly for autistic writers.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 461.27E
Learn how to incorporate elements of fiction and nonfiction into the growing genre of autofiction.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 465.9E
Learn to adapt a true story into a screen story that will emotionally engage your audience.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT 960.1E
Learn the objective skills and qualities that make screenwriters effective in this lecture course.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
WRITING 762.20E
Explore techniques you can use to eliminate writer's block and get back to putting words on the page.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 11, 2025
SCRIPT X 464.2E
Employ powerful acting techniques to help you develop and refine characters from your projects.
Format: Live Online | In Person
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 464.10E
Turn your story’s setting into a vibrant world that leaps off the page and becomes a signature aspect of your work.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 10, 2025
WRITING 762.17E
Learn how to express what makes you and your writing voice unique in this professional development course devoted to articulating your "brand"--all the things you and your work stand for.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 25, 2025
WRITING X 455.2
Learn how successful literary agents cultivate relationships with aspiring writers, powerful editors, and prestigious publishers.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 412.4
Learn to build a compelling short story collection in this course that helps you pull together your own story drafts into a cohesive collection.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 415.11
Enhance the scenes in your scripts by focusing on character motivation and how the scene advances the character arc.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: October 9, 2024 (May still be accepting enrollments)
WRITING X 462.3
Learn how richly drawn characters are the key to fostering compelling conflict in this reading- and exercise-based workshop.
Format: In Person | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING 791.9
Get an insider’s look at children’s book publishing with a veteran editor and award-winning author.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: November 16, 2024
SCRIPT X 471.10WS
Learn to leverage the unique advantages of comic-based storytelling in this workshop designed to help you start a new project
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 471.1
Get a comprehensive introduction to the craft of writing and creating comics, regardless of your drawing abilities and prior experience.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 11, 2025
WRITING X 461.13E
Learn critical skills to develop a powerful, unique premise for your fiction or nonfiction in this intensive workshop dedicated to the magic that makes stories work.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 762.14
Learn how various points of view in narration offer limitations and opportunities for you as a storyteller
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: February 1, 2025
WRITING X 455.1
Learn how literary agents take author manuscripts from query to signed contracts in this introductory course.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 451.1
Learn copyediting best practices as you develop skills in this area critical to writing, editing, and publishing.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 451.4
Enhance existing copyediting skills in this course focused on building professional-level skills and practices.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 415.4
Take a deep dive into putting the best words into your characters’ mouths in this exercise and workshop-based course teaching you to put your best voice forward.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
SCRIPT X 465.6E
Learn how a defined thematic argument is at the heart of every powerful story, and how you can enhance it in your own script.           
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 19, 2025
SCRIPT X 464.9E
Learn to create characters audiences will love and remember in this workshop for beginning and intermediate film and TV writers.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 426.7
Learn to develop a pitch document, which serves as your roadmap for your pilot and series once it is sold.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 27, 2025
WRITING X 424.2E
Use real life as a jumping off point for new writing, using activities and techniques that deepen and enrich how the stories are told.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 465.1E
Learn to write with food at the center of your writing practice in this generative workshop devoted to all the ways food shapes our lives, cultures, and memories.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: March 1, 2025
WRITING X 421.1
Discover the varied forms of creative nonfiction from memoir to personal essay and beyond in this introductory course.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 421.2
Continue your work in memoir, essays, or other forms of creative nonfiction in this intermediate workshop.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 421.3
Polish your memoir and personal essay collections in this advanced workshop for students with works-in-progress.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 463.4WS
Produce and revise new work in this supportive environment, where you also learn to contend with your inner critic and develop a 30-day writing plan.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 762.2E
Snap to attention in this practical workshop that helps you craft a productive writing practice, complete with short-term plans for success.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 463.4N
Snap to attention in this practical workshop that helps you craft a productive writing practice, complete with short-term plans for success.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 705
Join a critique-free group to keep you on track to reach your writing goals while learning new tools and best practices for getting words on the page.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 460
Reflect on your experience in the Certificate in Creative Writing program in this course that guides you in gathering a portfolio of your work and summary of your learning.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 464.5E
Designed for d/Deaf writers, this workshop explores Deaf culture, Deaf literature, and general writing techniques in a shared identity environment 
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 454.2
Discover the role of writers and publishing professionals in creating a more inclusive and equitable future for the publishing industry. 
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 404
Develop powerful writing habits in this class designed to help you take steps to becoming a disciplined, motivated, and successful writer.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 704
Develop powerful writing habits in this class designed to help you take steps to becoming a disciplined, motivated, and successful writer.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 442.1
Learn to write interactive stories and branching narratives that bring our favorite video games to life.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 451.2
Learn to review written works to suggest line edits and substantial thematic revisions in this introductory course.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 451.5
Participate in a simulated professional editorial working environment in this course designed to deepen you developmental editing skills while learning to work with clients.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 462.1
This is a reading and exercise-based class designed to explore and practice dialogue, voice and point-of-view in fiction and creative nonfiction. Each week, we read sample fiction and creative…
Format: Online | In Person
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
WRITING X 452.1
Learn how a manuscript becomes a book in this foundational course for editors and writers, especially those considering self-publishing.
Format: Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 452.2
Learn how publishers launch a new book and what roles the book’s editor plays in its success from that point forward.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
WRITING X 461.1E
Learn how to create writing that triggers emotional responses in your reader. Great for beginning and intermediate writers.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: October 30, 2024
SCRIPT X 410.1
Learn how to write a screenplay by developing a compelling story and tackling a feature film script outline in this first course of a four-course sequence.
Format: In Person | Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: October 9, 2024 (May still be accepting enrollments)
SCRIPT X 410.2
Building on your outline from the first course in the feature film sequence, continue to learn how to write a screenplay by completing the first act of your film script.
Format: In Person | Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
SCRIPT X 410.3
Tackle writing a significant portion of Act II and learn powerful creative techniques in our third course in the screenwriting sequence.
Format: In Person | Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: October 7, 2024 (May still be accepting enrollments)
SCRIPT X 410.4
Finish your feature film script and learn revision tactics in our fourth and final basic screenwriting course.
Format: In Person | Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 411.1
This course puts experienced screenwriters on track to complete a new script in a supportive community of like-minded writers.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
SCRIPT X 411.2
This course helps experienced screenwriters complete their new script in a collaborative environment.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 411.3
Writers who have completed at least two feature-length screenplays engage in analysis and revision in this rewriting workshop.
Format: Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 413
Complete a Feature Film Certificate as you take a script from concept to completion, with weeks devoted to professional development and revision practices.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 13, 2025
SCRIPT X 409
Learn the basics of screenwriting for feature films in this exercise-based workshop for absolute beginners.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 17, 2024
WRITING X 464.7E
Develop your skills writing fiction and nonfiction in the Spanish language in this  course designed for proficient Spanish speakers and conducted in Spanish.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 410
Learn the basics of writing fiction, from dialogue to description, in this supportive and informative workshop.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: October 30, 2024
WRITING X 403
Experiment with different sources for stories, such as life experiences, news articles, interviews, history, and mythology, and use in-class exercises to discover the best ways to tell them.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 402
Explore the basics of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in this introductory course for beginning writers searching for their unique voice.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 29, 2025
WRITING X 461.28WS
Learn to write very short fiction and nonfiction of 1,000 words or less while employing essential craft techniques for your reader
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 464.3E
Position yourself for success by learning and incorporating professional script formatting into your work.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 27, 2024
WRITING X 452.3
Set the groundwork for work as a freelance editor in this foundational course offering tools of the trade for successful editors.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 451.1
Choose and develop your best story ideas as you incorporate classic story principles to craft a powerful, memorable script.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 461.3E
Explore gay men's experiences in a safe, encouraging workshop environment of peers as you craft compelling fiction and nonfiction.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 463.6E
Get insight into how to get your script noticed in screenwriting competitions to push your career forward.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 401
Craft and tinker with your story from a high-level point of view in this workshop teaching you the basics of screen story for beginners.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 24, 2024
WRITING X 452.4E
Get a good foundation in English grammar in this course designed for students who want to work in editing or who want to bring sharper skills to their own writing.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 421.1
Learn how to construct a story and write a script outline for an existing half-hour series in this introductory TV writing course.
Format: In Person | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 421.2
Go from outline to the first draft script of a half-hour series, mirroring the professional TV writer's room environment.
Format: In Person | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 422.1
Learn how to write a TV script in this course that takes you from half-hour pilot idea to beat sheet and the teaser pages of your script.
Format: In Person | Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 422.2
Finish your half-hour pilot script as you rework, refine, and revise your progress made until you reach the end.
Format: In Person | Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: October 9, 2024 (May still be accepting enrollments)
SCRIPT X 422.9
Improve your existing script draft until it's a story that demands the reader's attention and gets you noticed
Format: Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 417.1E
Learn about the horror genre and develop an outline and first chapter for your project in this workshop suitable for beginners.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 417.2E
Continue with your horror novel in progress, considering structure, suspense, and character.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING 755.4E
Learn to work strategically toward finding an agent in this workshop that helps you develop a pitch, a list of agents, and materials that identify you as a serious writer prepared for success.  
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 426.6
Participate in a simulation of a real, professional writers room in this course in which you work collaboatively with instructor and peers to craft an original drama.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
SCRIPT X 464.11E
Learn how masterful screenwriters put realistic words into their characters’ mouths in this course dedicated to the art and craft of dialogue.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
WRITING 762.18E
Discover how AI and meditation can act as conduits for your own creativity by inspiring you with unexpected connections and ideas.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: November 23, 2024
WRITING X 432.8E
Learn how a poem's form can elevate its impact as you experiment with and ultimately invent your own forms.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 461.9E
Get ruthless with your own drafts and discover ways to elevate your writing to its greatest potential in this workshop devoted only to revision techniques.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 456.1
Get hands-on work in the field as part of your Certificate in Literary Representation or Certificate in Editing and Publishing.
Format: Independent Study/Internship
Next Start Date: September 23, 2024 (May still be accepting enrollments)
WRITING X 400
Perfect for students new to creative writing, this course introduces you to various forms of writing in small, supportive workshop groups.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: November 2, 2024
WRITING 741.2E
Learn how to start writing picture books in this basic workshop for absolute beginners.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: February 5, 2025
SCRIPT X 400
Get a crash course on various aspects of writing for silver screens, TV screens, web video, audio podcasts, and/or comics in this high-level overview of what each genre offers writers.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 16, 2024
JOURN 701
Join our free information session to learn how UCLA Extension’s Journalism Certificate can help prepare you to join the growing journalism profession.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 464.2E
Explore themes, ideas, and experiences drawn from LGBTQ lives in this workshop designed for writers from LGBTQ+ communities
Format: Online
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 428.1
Learn the fine art of writing comedy sketches and late night talk show bits 
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
WRITING 731.3
Discover the pleasures--and challenges--of writing poetry in traditional forms in this introductory course.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 18, 2025
WRITING X 455.4E
Craft a strategic plan for querying literary agents while developing your query letter to significantly improve your chances of receiving an offer of representation.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 455.4WS
Craft a strategic plan for querying literary agents while developing your query letter to significantly improve your chances of receiving an offer of representation.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 424.18E
Learn the basics of nonfiction writing — which offers rich, detailed, and vivid portraits of real events — as you read the best examples of the genre, and begin your own works.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 424.24E
Enhance your understanding of and skills in writing literary journalism in this course blending reportage with powerful storytelling
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 750
This course provides students with mentorship in literary magazine editing and an opportunity to review submissions as part of the magazine's operations.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 1, 2024 (May still be accepting enrollments)
WRITING X 432.21E
Learn the history, craft, and moods of writing odes as you explore how to praise the natural world in your own poems.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 761.5E
Convert your inner critic into your inner champion in this course for writers who struggle with self-doubt, motivation, and feeling worthy.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 465.2E
Use prompts and exercises to spend time with your characters outside the world of your story, learning more about their voices and reactions in various situations.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 24, 2024
WRITING X 455.3
Learn how writers get their names out there and take advantage of opportunities to connect with readers in this practical course on personal branding and promotion.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 421.4
Review and reimagine your creative nonfiction book manuscript in this three-quarter course for students revising their work toward finding an agent and submitting to publishers.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
WRITING X 411.6
Get intensive, individualized instruction as you rewrite your novel, preparing your manuscript for presentation to agents and publishers to begin the process of turning it into a book.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 791.8
Learn to bring order out of your chaotic writing life by mastering tools that help you stay on top of your many drafts and projects.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 423.1
Find the right true story to tell in this foundational class in writing book-length memoirs.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 423.2
Continue progress on a book length memoir by generating new work and developing strong self-editing skills.
Format: Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 423.3
Make significant progress on your memoir draft in this workshop where you refine structure, theme, and honing the author's unique voice.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
WRITING X 423.4
Take your manuscript in progress toward the finish line in this course that helps you become a self-directed writer with a revision practice
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 461.29
This workshop for active school teachers will help participants carve out time to reflect and write, putting personal histories and journeys onto the page.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 424.6E
Get your creative juices flowing with this focused weekend workshop that helps you jump-start work on several new pieces of creative nonfiction writing.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: October 20, 2024
WRITING 706
Get intensive, personalized support from an instructor in this independent study designed for advanced writers.
Format: Independent Study/Internship
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
WRITING X 444.1
Shape your novel idea for 8-12 year-old readers into a solid synopsis and outline as you work to generate the first two chapters.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING 761.75E
Invigorate your writing practice by employing mindfulness techniques to unleash language and ideas for writing of all kinds.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 415.1E
Start your mystery novel in this course that grounds you in the genre’s basics and helps you craft a compelling story.
Format: Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 415.2E
Continue your mystery novel draft in progress with lectures, discussions, and workshops that deepen your work. 
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 446.7E
Learn to write nonfiction for young readers of all ages in this course that explores how to capture real world experiences and information for hungry young minds.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 420
Learn the basics of writing nonfiction in this short introductory course.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: October 30, 2024
WRITING X 411.1
Start writing your novel in this workshop; guiding you through the building blocks of great books while teaching you essential tools for fiction writing.
Format: Live Online | Online | In Person
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
WRITING X 411.2
Continue progress on your novel by deepening your understanding of craft as you work scene-by-scene through your book.
Format: In Person | Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 411.3
Make significant progress on your novel draft in this workshop where you refine character, story, and the emotional resonance of your story.
Format: Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 411.4
Enter the home stretch on writing your novel with this advanced course that helps you address your entire book and prepare for the revision processes.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 411.5
Refine your manuscript into a polished novel as you work closely with peer writers and a master instructor to elevate your work to a professional level.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 413.16WS
Take a step-by-step approach to the ideation and creation of a new novel while exploring what makes novels successful, irresistible, and compelling. 
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 421.3
Learn how to construct a story and write a script outline for an existing one-hour series in this introductory TV writing course.
Format: In Person | Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 421.4
Go from outline to the first draft script of a one-hour series, mirroring the professional TV writer's room environment.
Format: In Person | Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 422.3
Develop the world, characters, tone, and story engine for an original TV series before developing an outline and your script's first act.
Format: In Person | Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 422.4
Carry your pilot script across the finish line in this workshop focused on helping you fix story problems, maximize drama, and write to the end.
Format: In Person | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
SCRIPT X 422.10
Improve your existing script draft until it's a story that demands the reader's attention and gets you noticed
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 422.11
Learn basic rewriting skills as you review your initial draft for opportunities to expand, deepen, and enrich your TV script.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
SCRIPT 726.21
Learn how writing short humorous pieces for publishing outlets can support your screenwriting career.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: March 8, 2025
SCRIPT 726.19
Learn to summarize your TV pilot in a succinct and tantalizing way that will appeal to studio decision makers.    
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: November 12, 2024
WRITING X 422.1
Learn to write essays, opinion pieces, and mini-memoirs about your life in this introductory course.
Format: In Person | Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 422.2
Expand your knowledge of what makes personal essays strong in this course for those familiar with personal essay basics.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 422.3
This advanced workshop helps you polish existing essay drafts into powerful pieces suitable for publication.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 441.1
Learn the basics of writing picture books for children in this introductory workshop.
Format: Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 441.2
Take your picture book writing to the next level with this intermediate course for writers with a basic understanding of the genre.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 441.3
Stretch your skills to develop a second (or beyond!) fiction or nonfiction picture book in this advanced course for experienced writers.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 469.4WS
Learn to build effective feature film and television pitches and communicate them in a style that fits your personality.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 755.12E
Learn when and how to pitch your work to a variety of publishing outlets, just like the pros do it.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 424.27E
Take the first steps to writing your memoir by identifying your story and planning how you want to tell it.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: December 7, 2024
WRITING X 431.1
Learn the basic techniques of poetry writing in this introductory course combining writing exercises and workshopping.
Format: Live Online | In Person
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
WRITING X 431.2
Refine your knowledge of poetry while expanding your craft techniques in this workshop for writers with previous experience writing poems.
Format: In Person | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
WRITING X 431.3
Focus on a specific project of folio of work in this workshop for poets ready for advanced workshopping and revision.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 432.10E
Build up your writing skills in this crash course covering the most essential and most effective tools, from imagery to sound, from the poet’s toolbox that can be applied to writing of all kinds.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 29, 2025
WRITING X 432.1E
Learn to harness popular culture to fuel your writing and respond to social and political events.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 432.19E
Activate the five senses of the body and bring them to life in your poems in this workshop exploring what it means to inhabit a physical form.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: October 30, 2024
WRITING X 432.17E
Dive into the connections between poetry and the sciences, as well as poetry exploring the sciences, in this visionary workshop. 
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 461.2E
Approach writing from a variety of perspectives to discover new ideas, techniques, and skills in this workshop for writers of all genres.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 29, 2025
WRITING X 424.13WS
Craft a winning angle for your current work-in-progress from book proposal to a template for navigating the submission process.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT 726.14
Learn professional proofreading techniques and notations in this interactive seminar demonstrating how to ensure your script says what it needs to say in the best way possible.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: November 7, 2024
WRITING X 432.14E
Learn to write at the intersection of prose and poetry in this workshop devoted to the imaginative and innovative possibilities in writing poetry without line breaks.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING 764.4E
Explore alternatives to traditional literary forms to locate new entry points for capturing queer life in queer ways.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: November 16, 2024
SCRIPT X 415.10B
Complete the relationship-driven script you started as you deepen your writing with lectures, discussions, and workshops.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 415.10
Build powerful stories by placing character relationships at the center for your script.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 413.15E
Rework your completed novel draft by exploring the art and craft of novel writing and getting constructive in-class critique.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 11, 2025
SCRIPT X 423.10
Rewrite your television pilot script with a showrunner's production perspective in this intensive workshop for advanced students.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 414.1E
Start writing your romance novel in this introductory course covering plot, structure, and industry guidelines.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 414.2E
Make substantial progress on a romance novel draft in this course for students who have completed Romance Writing I.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 414.3E
Continue making progress on your romance novel in this course focusing on mastering the "middle phase" of your manuscript.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 462.5
Learn to master the building blocks of prose writing by exploring the unique opportunities of writing scenes and summaries of action.       
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 416.1E
Start your sci fi or fantasy novel off right with this course that helps you build your world and start telling your story.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
WRITING X 416.2E
Continue your sci fi or fantasy novel in progress in this workshop focusing on plot structure and scenecraft.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 416.3E
Continue your sci-fi or fantasy novel in progress in this workshop designed to help you deepen knowledge of craft as you create new pages. 
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 425.1
Learn what it takes to translate scientific concepts and discoveries into prose that readers can understand and enjoy.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 463.3E
Learn the techniques of character-driven storytelling using theatrical methods in this workshop, focusing on the most in-demand skills for today's feature and TV writers.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 11, 2025
SCRIPT 700
Join a critique-free group to keep you on track to reach your writing goals while learning new tools and best practices for getting words on the page.    
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 433
Create an original project or adapt from your own scripts in this course helping you bring your stories to scripted audio environments.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 425.5
Explore the history of televised storytelling by watching and breaking current shows, developing knowledge to help you craft your own innovative series
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 11, 2025
WRITING X 462.2
Focus on the critical skills of setting and description in this reading- and exercise-based workshop designed to improve your technique in fiction and nonfiction
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 412.1
Learn the basics of writing short fiction in this introductory course covering the building blocks of good storytelling.
Format: In Person | Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
WRITING X 412.2
Create two new short stories in this workshop for writers familiar with short story basics.
Format: Online | Live Online | In Person
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 412.3
Complete two new short stories in this intensive workshop for experienced short story writers.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 16, 2025
SCRIPT X 426.1
Get a thorough overview of the role of a showrunner in this intensive workshop that prepares you for success in the television industry.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 28, 2025
SCRIPT X 426.1WS
Get a thorough overview of the role of a showrunner in this intensive workshop that prepares you for success in the television industry.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT 726.1
Hear directly from successful TV writers and creators in this course that demystifies the industry and how to break in and stay in.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: December 7, 2024
WRITING X 413.9E
Kickstart your imagination with this introductory course on writing beyond the ordinary and in alternate realities.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
SCRIPT X 465.8E
Learn to write a 5 to 7-minute stand-up routine in this course guiding you through the history of stand-up from past to present.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING 961.1
Get a literary history lesson on Shakespeare's impact while reviewing all the ways his words, characters, and plots remain relevant in writing today.    
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 413.1E
Develop a solid premise and sketch out your story's structure with the goal of completing a six-page detailed synopsis that you can use to complete a draft of your novel.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 462.4
Work to amplify the impact of your plot in telling your story in this technique workshop using readings and discussion to further your craft.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 424.21E
Craft your passion for justice through urgent stories that address pressing social issues in this course.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
SCRIPT X 469.1E
Get insider tips on how to identify the best managers and agents who can take your career to the next level.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: October 9, 2024 (May still be accepting enrollments)
WRITING X 463.11E
Learn what, when, and how to submit to literary magazines.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 426.5
Learn best practices for launching your screenwriting career with advice from this panel of industry experts.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 30, 2024
SCRIPT X 463.11E
Learn to rewrite your pilot from the industry insider perspective of a TV Literary Manager.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
SCRIPT X 424
Complete a Television Certificate as you develop a spec of an existing series and original pilot, with weeks devoted to professional development and revision practices.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 13, 2025
SCRIPT X 420.1
Learn the basics of writing for television in this exercise-based workshop for absolute beginners.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 17, 2024
SCRIPT 916.1
Break down the components of pitches of various lengths to ensure you're ready to wow Hollywood decision-makers when the time is right.  
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
SCRIPT 726.20
Dive into the history of television by and for Black audiences to empower the future of Black voices and stories.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 465.2E
Learn the strategies and tips you need to success and thrive as a professional writer and develop a strong, long lasting career.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 755.5E
Learn the strategies and tips to succeed and thrive as a professional writer, from branding yourself and your work to confidently discussing money and contracts.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: March 1, 2025
WRITING X 432.20E
Perfect for poets not quite ready for advanced workshops, this course sustains and builds on your writing practice with readings, discussions, and prompts to keep you writing and discovering your potential. 
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 451.3
Get an insider's view of how editors thrive within the publishing industry in this introductory course perfect for writers and professionals who want to break into the field.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 461.5E
Dive deep into the creative process in this workshop devoted to helping you fall in love with the act of writing.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 25, 2024
WRITING X 463.7E
Learn to apply concepts that make stories powerful and memorable in this course exploring what readers can’t resist.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT 726.16
Uncover the secrets behind the mesmerizing world of TV series creation in the role of a TV showrunner.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 23, 2025
WRITING 714.10E
Learn to bend time to your will in this workshop focused on how to render the passage of time in writing.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: November 2, 2024
SCRIPT X 451.2
Ensure your story follows real world protocols and practices in this course dedicated to enhancing the realism and believability of your story.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
SCRIPT X 465.3E
Take a deep dive into the global approach to horror narratives in this generative workshop for screenwriters.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 11, 2025
WRITING X 432.18E
Learn how to write poetry in traditional forms in this workshop that explores classic and contemporary approaches to form.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 461.25
Learn to translate literature into English in this workshop designed for writers with even just a simple understanding of a foreign language.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: October 30, 2024
WRITING X 424.4E
Apply the techniques of evocative writing to place-based works while learning the skills of the professional travel writers
Format: Hybrid
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 464.5E
Create dynamic, richly drawn characters audiences will love in this practical workshop for writers looking for an edge.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
WRITING 761.11E
Dive into writing "micro memoirs" of 300 words or fewer to explore your lived experiences.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: November 9, 2024
WRITING 765
Practice expressing your experiences as a member of the military or military family in a variety of formats and genres.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: November 9, 2024
WRITING X 464.1
Join a community of writers of color exploring how storytelling capturing your lived experiences fits into a rich global tradition of writing.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 464.4E
Writers of all genres can bring a single long-form work or several shorter pieces in progress to this workshop dedicated to fostering underrepresented voices of color
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT 726.18
Identify what makes acclaimed feature films so powerful and compelling in this lecture on award-winning films.    
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 20, 2024
SCRIPT 926.1
Complete a checklist of self-evaluated items to determine if your pilot script is ready for the marketplace in this lecture-based course.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
WRITING X 432.22E
Explore how poets find inspiration in every day life and write about similar subjects in different ways to gain ideas and prompts for your own new work.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 463.12E
Join a supportive group of women and female-identifying writers in this workshop dedicated to telling your stories in the best way possible.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: October 26, 2024
WRITING 762.10E
Use works of visual art as your prompt for writing new work as you examine how published writers have used this technique in recent history.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 413.6E
This ambitious workshop guides you to achieve the unthinkable: a novel draft in just 10 weeks.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 413.7E
Dive right into to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) with this workshop designed to help you achieve success with pre- and post-November activities.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 19, 2024
WRITING 790
Learn about how the Writers’ Program can help you achieve your writing goals in this informative, interactive session that includes an opportunity for advising.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 700.4
Join instructors from the Writers’ Program as they read from their recent publications in this beloved annual tradition.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: November 6, 2024
SCRIPT X 462.1E
Get an overview of the entire animation script writing process from concept to completion.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 714.11
Get an introduction to writing "CliFi," or fiction about climate change, in this workshop covering the opportunities and expectations of the genre.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 18, 2025
WRITING X 461.4E
Turn your memories of travel into powerful explorations of emotional and intellectual journeys.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 463.4E
Craft powerful dramatic and comedic moments by employing techniques of monologue, offering characters the chance to make unforgettable statements within your story.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 731.6
Learn to write poems for specific occasions in this class offering an overview to new and continuing writers.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 424.3E
Find stories from your life to turn into written works in this encouraging course that focuses on generating new work instead of revising and critiquing.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 762.5E
Learn how to write poetry for very young readers in this workshop for absolute beginners.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING 760.1
Join a small group of committed writers for six days of uninterrupted writing time, craft talks, and camaraderie in the idyllic setting of UCLA's Lake Arrowhead Conference Center.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 416.3E
Learn how studios review and approve screenplays as you get hands-on experience in the critical art of writing coverage on scripts.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 424.20E
Try out a variety of nonfiction writing forms in this class for students with a goal to sell their writing for publication.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: February 4, 2025
WRITING 924.1
Process traumatic lived experiences and foster healing through writing in this course designed to create a safe space for craft, discussion, and exploration of life-changing events. 
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
SCRIPT X 465.4E
Learn the ropes of creating your own YouTube channel and creating must-see content that will help you build an audience.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: October 23, 2024
WRITING X 446.2E
Get a strong introduction to writing for children, from picture books through complex young adult novels, in this workshop perfect for beginners.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 446.3E
Continue to develop your skills in children’s writing in this workshop that helps you dive deeper into your genre and develop powerful stories through workshopping.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 463.8E
Develop a half-hour animated pilot while learning the ins and outs of this unique genre of television.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
WRITING X 461.14E
Explore the erotic as a genre as you learn to incorporate writing about sex and sexuality artfully into your writing, no matter its subject.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 424.28E
Develop a small body of work by exploring different ways to creatively tell stories informed by your ancestral history, both known and unknown.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
SCRIPT X 410.2WS
Learn to write a feature film treatment--a detailed outline to follow when writing a script--in this intensive workshop for those new to writing feature films.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 465.7E
Learn what makes a good adaptation for film or television as well as creative and practical methods for this unique and specific undertaking.    
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
SCRIPT 710.2
Get an overview of the craft of screenwriting for feature films.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: February 22, 2025
WRITING X 424.25E
Learn to write professional-level critiques of movies, TV, books, and other art as you develop your critical eye and build language that captures your perspective.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 424.15E
Learn to write provocative pieces on current events and trends in this workshop devoted to crafting powerful essays.
Next Start Date: TBA
WRITING X 445.1
Learn about writing for young adults as you complete an outline and first chapter of a novel.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
WRITING X 445.2
Continue progress on a young adult novel in this course focusing on diving deeper into an analysis of your story's elements, while workshop feedback helps you improve from draft to draft.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: TBA
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