Sundays, March 30 – May 4 | 3-5pm ET
5-week course
BADASS BOO is the first-ever women-only cohort for writers who have screenwriting essentials under their belt but want to go deeper! First and foremost, it will be a proud and supportive community. We will come together weekly to swap creative insights, lean into support, and dive fully into our curiosity around how innovative screenplays take-shape and how a woman’s lived-experience assists her genius! You will need a BASIC understanding of screenplay writing for BOO and should know how to write a scene. But this doesn’t mean you need to be seasoned and prolific or feeling very good at it! “Advanced beginners” are very welcome. In BADASS BOO, we’ll push determinedly into our own writing projects—prioritizing our own output and creative joy every week.
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Saturdays, Jan 18 – Feb 15 | 3-5pm ET
5-week course
Study the greats, become the GREATEST! For 5 weeks, SCREENPLAYS BY BADASS WOMEN (Including YOU!) offers a supportive, uproariously fun and explorative kaleidoscope of screenwriting study AND practice. Sessions will toggle between three elements—script study, community exploration, writing—connecting the dots between our lived experiences on Planet Patriarchy, the historically marginalized “female gaze,” and our vast creative reach as women writers.
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Saturday, October 12 | 1-3pm ET
1-session
In this 2-hour seminar, we’ll parse this film’s fascinating entanglement with (and nervy subversion of!) our long rom-com “love triangle” lineage, and explore Song’s revolutionary treatment of her heroine Nora Moon as an unapologetically self-possessed woman seeking wholeness—and believing she deserves it. (What radical act of characterization is this?!)
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Sundays, Sept 15 – Oct 13 | 3-5pm ET
5-week course
Run to the airport with the fervor of a feminist in sensible shoes! This 5-week course is equal parts source text study and wild writing: unbraiding commercial rom-com scenes, then rewriting them per our experience as actual human women! Our approach allows for the genre’s dependable joys, but finds all-new writerly freedom in subverting its tropes and reimaging its comedy front to back—with laughs based in truth and fearless play.
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Saturdays, Sept 21 – Aug 5 | 1-3pm ET
3-week course
Do you have a novel, memoir piece, short story, or essay you’ve long dreamed about getting adapted for the screen? Learn how to adapt it yourself! In “ADAPTATION FASCINATION,” writers from all corners of the creative & genre map come together to consider a pre-existing story of theirs for film/TV adaptation, and learn how to transform their source material per the requirements of (and new choices available through!) this cinematic medium. With hands-on guidance from Lauren, you’ll start seeing your story anew through the periscope of cinematic possibility.
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Saturdays, Aug 10 – Aug 24 | 2-4pm ET
3-week course
Do you have a novel, memoir piece, short story, or essay you’ve long dreamed about getting adapted for the screen? Learn to adapt it yourself! Screenwriting (a capital-A “Art,” despite its Hollywoody reputation) requires a finely-tuned, fluent, and propulsive sense of visual unfolding—but with practice, it’s actually uniquely accessible among the writing modes. You can do this! With hands-on guidance from Lauren, you’ll start seeing your story anew through the periscope of cinematic possibility.
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Sundays, July 21 – August 25 | 3-5pm ET
6-week course
In this immersive *all-levels* screenwriting course, we’ll revisit who we were in high school, roll around in the cringey nostalgia, 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 achingly specific high school heroine for the ages. Not “you” necessary—though perhaps gorgeous pieces of you, folded into an exquisitely awesome new character. Absolute beginners welcome!
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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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Saturdays, March 9 – April 6 | 3-5pm ET @ Writing Co-Lab
5-week screenwriting course
This 5-week course is equal parts craft and source text study: unbraiding commercial hit scenes, then “rewriting them” per our experience as actual human women! We’ll be scrutinizing a delightful AND delightfully problematic genre: the curse-worthy, but also popcorn-worthy, Rom-Com. Our approach is to allow for its dependable joys, but find all-new writerly freedom in subverting its tropes and reimaging its comedy front to back—with laughs based in truth and fearless play.
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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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