WHAT:

The Phoenix College Creative Writing Program will offer Topics in Writing Plays: Advanced Screenwriting (CRW 291) beginning this Fall.

This studio course is aimed at screenwriters who have a script in progress and want the comradeship in working alongside fellow screenwriters. Students will workshop their scenes and explore aspects of their script as a special project. Additionally, the class will offer students opportunities to work on drafting and revision of their original screenplays.

Topics in Writing Plays: Advanced Screenwriting will also give students an overview of entering screenplay competitions and marketing their scripts.

For more detailed information about the course, please contact Kate Cross at kate.cross@pcmail.maricopa.edu. To register, please call (602) 285-7777.

WHEN:

Wednesdays - 6 p.m. - 8:55 p.m.
Sept. 14 - Dec. 14

WHERE:

Phoenix College
1202 West Thomas Road, Phoenix
(Thomas & 11th Ave.)

INSTRUCTOR:

Kate Cross, Coordinator of the Phoenix College Creative Writing Program is both a fiction writer and screenwriter. She has completed a feature length screenplay and has developed and taught many creative writing courses. Currently she is at work on a novel.

COST:

The 3-credit course is $185 (includes registration fee).

ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION:

The in-class participation and feedback from other writers is invaluable, a feeling I am sure is shared by most students who attend," said Screenwriting student, Michael Chandler. "At first, the idea of workshopping my material with others and theirs with me) did not appeal to me. I had questions about others stealing my material, and I wondered if my own work would be 'good enough.' More than pleasantly surprised, I can't imagine submitting any completed screenplay to a professional evaluator, agent, production company, etc., without first going over it with my classmates and with Kate. Their feedback is invaluable, and several students and I have continued workshopping our work together outside of the classroom."

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