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The Scriptwriters Network
Writers helping writers since 1986! Whether you are a filmmaker, a screenwriter, a television script writer or involved in screenwriting for non-traditional media, we help take your writing to the next level.
Our membership is as varied as our guest speaker list, which includes movie screenwriters and directors, television writers, video game writers, comic book writers, novelists, agents, managers, professors, career experts, accountants, and more.
- At least 22 free meetings per year
- Hollywood Outreach Program for screenwriting and Carl Sautter Memorial Television Outreach Program for TV scriptwriting
- Script Libraries
Master Speaker Schedule for 2007/2008
Click here for event information| Michael Reaves (Writer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Emmy Award for Batman: The Animated Series) | 06/26/2007 |
| Harve Bennett (Writer and Producer, Star Trek films, The Six Million Dollar Man) | 07/14/2007 |
| Jeff Kitchen ("Using Reverse Cause and Effect to Create a Tight Plot") | 07/21/2007 |
| Iris Yamashita (Scriptwriters Network alum Oscar-Nominated for Letters from Iwo Jima) | 08/11/2007 |
| Steve Kaire ("Creating Slam Dunk Script Ideas") | 08/18/2007 |
| The Comic Book Writers Group Presents Jan Utstein-O'Neill and Bill O'Neill, publishers of Hurricane Comics | 08/28/2007 |
| Agent and Manager Panel (Marc Manus, Brad Kushner, and Barry Katz) | 09/08/2007 |
| Dan Decker (author of Anatomy of a Screenplay) | 09/15/2007 |
| Development Exec. Panel II | 10/13/2007 |
| Derek Rydall (Screenwriter, Actor and Author) | 10/20/2007 |
| TV Writers Panel (Everybody Hates Chris, Heroes, CSI NY) | 11/10/2007 |
| Shawn Tolleson ("Crafting a Powerful Breakthrough Goal") | 11/17/2007 |
| WGA Strike Q&A "Find Out What's Going on!" | 12/09/2007 |
| Jim Vines ("Q & A: The Working Screenwriter") | 01/19/2008 |
| Jeff Nathanson (Screenwriter of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) | 03/08/2008 |
| Michele Wallerstein ("How to be an Agent's Dream Client") | 03/15/2008 |
| Mark Fergus (Iron Man) | 04/12/2008 |
| Bill Boyle ("The Visual Mindscape of the Screenplay") | 04/19/2008 |
| Nicholl Fellowships Winners (Annmarie E. Morais, T. J. Lynch, Pamela Kay, Pat Gilfillan, Cameron Young, Arthur M. Jolly) | 05/10/2008 |
| Dara Marks ("Writing from the Inside Out") | 05/17/2008 |
| One-Hour TV Panel (Ugly Betty, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Flash Gordon, Star Trek: Voyager, Dirt, Big Love, The 4400) | 06/14/2008 |
| Patrick A. Horton, Ph.D. ("The Art Of The Business & The Business Of The Art") | 06/21/2008 |
| Catherine Ann Jones ("The Way of Story") | 07/19/2008 |
| Video Game Writing Panel (More info to come...) | 08/09/2008 |
| Jim Vines (Q & A: The Working Screenwriter) | 08/16/2008 |
| Marc and Elaine Zicree (The Supermentors!) | 09/20/2008 |
| Comedy Writer Panel (More info to come...) | 10/11/2008 |
| Ellen Sandler (Turning a Screenplay into a Television Pilot) | 10/18/2008 |
| Development Executive Panel (More info to come...) | 11/08/2008 |
| Screenwriter Stephen Susco (The Grudge) | 12/13/2008 |