Nine professional writers, who are instructors in this years Writers Studio at UCLA Extension, are offering "Four Evenings on Creativity and Craft at Barnes & Noble." If you are lucky enough to be in the Los Angeles area, join them as they share their writing tips and answer your questions in this stimulating and free series:

Friday, January 6
Writing and Publishing Novels
Claire Carmichael, author of 23 published novels, including The Kookaburra Gambit (under the name Claire McNab)
Tod Goldberg, author of Simplify and Living Dead Girl, a 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominee

Friday, January 13
Writing from the Core: Emotional Truth in Creative Writing and Screenwriting
Peter Dunne, Emmy Award-winning writer/producer whose credits include JAG, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Thats Life
Steven Wolfson, playwright and screenwriter whose credits include Dinner and Driving and Gang Tapes

Friday, January 20
Writing the Memoir and Personal Essay: Life into Art
Barbara Abercrombie, author of nine books, including Writing Out the Storm (St. Martins Press)
Samantha Dunn, author of the books Faith in Carlos Gomez: A Memoir of Salsa, Sex, and Salvation and Not by Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life

Friday, January 27
Great Idea, But is it a Screenplay? Three Writers Speak
Janna Gelfand, Academy Award-nominated producer of Kissing Miranda; author of A Practical Guide to Flawless Screenplay Form
Stephen Mazur, screenwriter whose credits include co-writing Liar, Liar, The Little Rascals, and Heartbreakers
Billy Mernit, screenwriter and author of Writing the Romantic Comedy (Harper/Collins); and co-author of Thats How Much I Love You

Fridays, January 6, 13, 20 & 27, 7-8 pm
Barnes & Noble, Westside Pavilion
10850 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Admission is free (seating on a first-come first-served basis).
For more information call (310) 825-9415 or email writers@uclaextension.edu.