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The winning bidder will receive enrollment in the following course offered by the UCLA Extension Writers' Program:

Finding Your Story: An Introductory Creative Writing Workshop
X 456.25 English 2 units

The scariest part of writing is staring at that blank page! This workshop is for anyone who has wanted to write but doesn't know where to start, or for writers who feel stuck and need a new form or jumping off point for unique story ideas. The course provides a safe, playful atmosphere to experiment with different resources for stories, such as life experiences, news articles, interviews, history, and mythology. A series of in-class exercises explore or introduce different writing forms, such as short stories, personal essay, plays, and even poems or songs, and generate a notebook filled with unique story ideas from which you craft several short pieces. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Internet access required to retrieve course materials. Reg# 254461CA

Westwood: 320 1010 Westwood Center

Dates: 6 meetings, Wednesdays 11am-2pm, May 6-Jun 10, 2015.

Laurel Ollstein, MFA, award-winning playwright whose play Cheese was published by Original Works Publishing. Ms. Ollstein's work has been produced around the country, including Esther's Moustache, Blackwell's Corner, Insomniac, and The Dark Ages, among others. Her essays have been published by Freshyarn.com and Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative.

As the largest and most comprehensive continuing education writing program worldwide, the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program offers more than 400 annual open-enrollment courses onsite and online in feature film writing, television writing, novel writing, short fiction, personal essay, memoir, poetry, playwriting, writing for the youth market, and publishing. Writers’ Program students have gone on to publish and produce hundreds of popular books, plays, feature films, and television shows including White Oleander; The Memory Thief; A Chorus Line; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; Twilight; Dexter; and Game of Thrones.

Testimonials:

“I entered the Writers’ Program as I suspect many of my fellow students do—at a crossroads. I left the program feeling motivated, with a clear goal and armed with a new skill set that was nothing short of life-changing.” – Darryl Webster (author of Pride in Travel: A Title-Winning Season Exploring the World of Manchester City)

“I would highly recommend the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program to anyone looking to advance the quality of their writing. I’ve taken a number of courses and have had an amazing learning experience each time.” – Aaron Rollins (recently signed by CAA and Echo Lake Management)

"Any awards I've been fortunate enough to win, and any skill I've developed as a writer and an editor, I can trace back to the lessons I learned at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program." – J. Ryan Stradal {author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Viking, July 2015), winner of the 2014 William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, and editor of the anthology California Prose Directory 2014: New Writing from the Golden State}

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Photo Captions:

• Instructor Daniel Jaffe reads from his work at the Writers’ Program’s annual Publication Party held at the Skirball Cultural Center
• Laurel Ollstein, UCLA Extension Writers’ Program Instructor
• 24 Writers’ Program instructors contributed to 2 recently published screenwriting books on feature film writing and television writing
• Writers’ Program students discuss their work in a Writers Studio classroom lead by instructor Billy Mernit