WWLA Summer 2017 Classes : Writing Workshops Los Angeles offers courses and one-on-one instruction to those interested in honing their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writing skills.
We’re really excited to have three talented writers joining us as guest instructors on our summer roster (which will go live on Wednesday!). Whether you write fiction, memoir, or nonfiction, th...
What are you doing tomorrow afternoon? It’s not too late to join Francesca Lia Block’s seminar on Writing the Contemporary Fairy or Folk Tale !
After the first westside mixed levels fiction workshop sold out, our guest instructor FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK stepped up to help us offer a second section that starts on April 17. We thought we’d ...
Diana Wagman will be teaching a YOUNG ADULT FICTION WORKSHOP for WWLA starting this Sunday morning, and there are still a few spots left! The workshop runs for eight weeks, and it’s going to be...
Writers! The fall schedule is here and we’ve got new classes (Young Adult Fiction, Memoir II, and Essay Writing!), a new location (Pasadena!), a new guest instructor (Natashia Deón !) and a b...
WE ASKED OUR NEW WESTSIDE INSTRUCTOR LAURA WARRELL SOME QUESTIONS IN ANTICIPATION OF HER FIRST FICTION WORKSHOP. FEEL FREE TO SHARE HER ANSWERS WITH YOUR WESTSIDE WRITER FRIENDS, SO THEY CAN GET ...
Q & A WITH KATE MARUYAMA Kate Maruyama’s novel Harrowgate was published by 47North. Her short work has appeared in Stoneboat, Arcadia Magazine, Controlled Burn, Salon, and The Rumpus, among o...
In anticipation of our summer schedule launch later this week, here is all the WWLA news that’s fit to print! NEELANJANA BANERJEE appeared with Kate Tempest as part of the LA Public Library�...
Writers! We’ll be launching our summer 2016 class schedule next week, but in the meantime, we wanted to share some faculty announcements about the lovely and talented people above (clockwise fr...
Fiction instructor NEELANJANA BANERJEE is one of the judges for 1888.center’s novella prize. She also will be in conversation with author Kate Tempest at the Los Angeles Public Library’s A...
WWLA is living it up at AWP! If you’re attending the conference, please stop by our pool party (sans pool) on Thursday evening, 3.31 (see poster above). We’d love to have a drink with you. ...
Back by popular demand for the third time! SETH FISCHER’S SHOW & TELL SEMINAR is coming up on Sunday, January 31, and there are a few spots left. We asked him some questions about the seminar, ...
EDAN LEPUCKI welcomed a second child, a daughter, Ginger Dean Brown, on November 2, 2015. KATE MARUYAMA’s short stories are appearing in two new anthologies: Winter Horror Stories, proceeds...
SARA CAMPBELL reflected on Fred Schneider in the Georgia music issue of Oxford American, available now. You can find her new series of interviews with Angelenos, discussing how they balance makin...
Taking a fiction workshop for the first time can be a daunting prospect, but Kate Maruyama is here to demystify it for you. IF I HAD NEVER STUDIED FICTION BEFORE, WHAT COULD I LOOK FORWARD TO...
SETH FISCHER is one of our most popular instructors, and his Nonfiction I workshop starts Tuesday! Click here to learn more . We asked him some questions about the class so that writers new to WW...
Classes | WRITING WORKSHOPS LOS ANGELES : Our fall class schedule is here! We have classes in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry as well as an eight-week Submission Support Group, open to writers ...
Congratulations, guys! ANDREA CIANNAVEI has been hired to teach a television writing class in Chapman University’s Department of Film and Television JENNIFER ALISE DREW will serve as a judge...
SCOTT CHESHIRE is the managing editor of a new literary magazine called The Scofield . The paperback of his first novel, High as the Horses’ Bridles, will be released September 15th. He’s rea...