Saturdays, June 1 – June 15 | 2-4pm ET
3-week course
Learn to write flawlessly halting, fumblingly REAL dialogue! Mushy, sentimental, hyper-articulate, or full of cloying exposition? Dialogue that HASN’T been trained on actual human conversational rhythm is a liability. But when we nail authentic “voice,” we DEEPEN investment in the fictional world we’ve built. Join this workshop for a super fun, collaborative, observation-based 3 weeks of ear-training and craft know-how! The class is geared around dialogue-writing for screenplays, but absolutely appropriate for writers in any conversational medium (fiction, sketch, etc).
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Saturdays, January 13 – February 10 | 3-5pm ET @ Write or Die
5-week screenwriting course
For 5-weeks, SCREENPLAYS BY BADASS WOMEN offers a supportive, uproariously fun, and explorative kaleidoscope of screenwriting study AND practice! We will deep-dive several of the most groundbreaking screenplays by women, engage in conversation about what exactly these cinematic worlds offer that’s brilliantly off-kilter and essential, as well as WRITE diligently into our own screenplays
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Sundays: February 25 – March 17 | 3pm – 5pm ET @ Write or Die
4-week screenwriting course
This 4-week version of my most popular course allows more time to get you writing and putting the framework (and glory) of the “teen galaxy” into practice. Together, we’ll revisit who we were in high school, roll around in the cringey nostalgia (turns out it’s delicious!), do an archeological dig in our moms’ basements, dust off any old shame, fall in love with our V1 prototypes, and from this tender and hilarious place craft an idiosyncratic, achingly specific high school heroine for the ages. Not “you”—but gorgeous pieces of you, folded into an exquisitely awesome new character.
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Sunday, March 17 | 3-6pm ET @ Writing Co-Lab
1 session seminar
In this afternoon seminar, we’ll explore two magical films, “Barbie” (2023) and “The NeverEnding Story” (1984)—one an instant classic, one a nostalgia-drunk classic, both brilliant examples of “alternative storytelling” and fearless play on the page. These overtly commercial films (and commercial hits) are planted in “mere” child’s play—but they gift profound lessons to storytellers of all modes and genres—mind-blowing teachings on the nature of power exchange and capital “c” Creativity itself. As geographical cousins, the landscapes of Barbieland and Fantasia offer struggle, self-discovery, and full-on revolution (middle fingers raised high!).
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Sundays: April 7 – May 12 | 3-5pm ET @ Writing Co-Lab
5-week screenwriting course
For 5-weeks, SCREENPLAYS BY BADASS WOMEN offers a supportive, uproariously fun, and explorative kaleidoscope of screenwriting study AND practice! We will deep-dive several of the most groundbreaking screenplays by women, engage in conversation about what exactly these cinematic worlds offer that’s brilliantly off-kilter and essential, as well as WRITE diligently into our own screenplays
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December 2 + December 9, 2023 @ Write or Die
2-week course
Legit: take this class and become, like, a dialogue KWEEEEN. Learn to write flawlessly halting, fumblingly REAL dialogue! Dialogue mastery is an essential, oft-overlooked skill—arguably THE most important tool in the writer’s toolbox—and you can MASTER it.
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July 29 + August 5, 2023 @ GOLD Comedy
2-week mini comedy course

The writer who celebrates the legend they once were, is a writer at the height of their powers! While you were drooling in braces, eating friendless lunches, and cutting your own bangs: guess what? Teenage you was a fucking STAR. She just never knew it.
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September 30, 2023 @ Write or Die
1 hour screenwriting workshop
In this 1-hour workshop from screenwriter & story coach Lauren Veloski, have a blast exploring the screenwriting techniques and innovations employed in Greta Gerwig’s groundbreaking “BARBIE.”
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