"I found the Scriptwriters Network to be the best group I ever spoke to, as far as the intelligence and energy of the people who came. I was very impressed with the organization."
Oscar®-winner Marc Norman, Shakespeare In Love
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Hollywood Outreach Program (HOP)
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The Scriptwriters Network
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
Speakers from 2007 to Present
Click here for event information | Jen Grisanti (Finding Your Voice) | 11/21/2009 |
| Shawn Tolleson (Create a Career Breakthrough By December 31st!) | 09/19/2009 |
| Literary Panel -- -- William Vu (Entertainment Lawyer), more to come... | 09/12/2009 |
| Breakdown Services (more info to come...) | 08/15/2009 |
| "New Writers" Panel (Erika Johnson (Disney/ABC Writing Fellow, Ugly Betty), Cheo Hodari Coker (Notorious), Alex Ballar (Training Tim), Siri Baruc (Training Tim), Dan Ewen (Opposites Attract) | 08/08/2009 |
| Screenwriter/Producer Devon Shepard (Weeds, Everybody Hates Chris, MADtv) | 07/25/2009 |
| Pilar Alessandra (Dynamic Dialogue) | 07/18/2009 |
| Breaking the Story for T.V. Writers (More information coming...) | 06/20/2009 |
| Reel Life Action Heroes (at the Great American PitchFest) -- Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), Pete Briggs (Hellboy), Joe Forte (Firewall) & Simon Kinberg (Mr & Mrs Smith) | 06/13/2009 |
| Bill Boyle (Respecting the Antagonist) | 05/16/2009 |
| Screenwriters Michael Brandt & Derek Haas (2 Fast 2 Furious, 3:10 to Yuma, Wanted) | 05/09/2009 |
| Michele Wallerstein (How to Get Your Screenplay out of the House & into the Film World) | 04/18/2009 |
| Emmy-winning Screenwriter Erik Bork (Band of Brothers, From the Earth to the Moon) | 04/11/2009 |
| Rona Edwards and Monika Skerbelis (Creating A Production Company) | 03/21/2009 |
| Development Executive/Producer Panel -- Sebastian Twardosz (Producer), Edward C. Wang (Development Executive), Mark Parrish (Producer/Actor), Sheri Bryant (Producer) | 03/14/2009 |
| John Hruby (Trading Your Addictions for Creativity) | 02/21/2009 |
| Oscar-winning Screenwriter Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society) | 02/14/2009 |
| James Jordan (Avoiding the "Page 10" Rejection) | 01/17/2009 |
| Oscar-winning Screenwriter Marc Norman (Shakespeare in Love) | 01/10/2009 |
| Screenwriter David Hayter (Watchmen, X-Men, X2: X-Men United) | 12/13/2008 |
| Suzanne Lyons (Producing Your Low Budget Film) | 11/22/2008 |
| Ellen Sandler (Turning a Screenplay into a Television Pilot) | 10/18/2008 |
| Comedy Writer Panel | 10/11/2008 |
| Marc and Elaine Zicree (The Supermentors!) | 09/20/2008 |
| Jim Vines (Q & A: The Working Screenwriter) | 08/16/2008 |
| Video Game Writing Panel | 08/09/2008 |
| Catherine Ann Jones ("The Way of Story") | 07/19/2008 |
| Patrick A. Horton, Ph.D. ("The Art Of The Business & The Business Of The Art") | 06/21/2008 |
| One-Hour TV Panel (Ugly Betty, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Flash Gordon, Star Trek: Voyager, Dirt, Big Love, The 4400) | 06/14/2008 |
| Dara Marks ("Writing from the Inside Out") | 05/17/2008 |
| Nicholl Fellowships Winners (Annmarie E. Morais, T. J. Lynch, Pamela Kay, Pat Gilfillan, Cameron Young, Arthur M. Jolly) | 05/10/2008 |
| Bill Boyle ("The Visual Mindscape of the Screenplay") | 04/19/2008 |
| Mark Fergus (Iron Man) | 04/12/2008 |
| Michele Wallerstein ("How to be an Agent's Dream Client") | 03/15/2008 |
| Jeff Nathanson (Screenwriter of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) | 03/08/2008 |
| Jim Vines ("Q & A: The Working Screenwriter") | 01/19/2008 |
| WGA Strike Q&A "Find Out What's Going on!" | 12/09/2007 |
| Shawn Tolleson ("Crafting a Powerful Breakthrough Goal") | 11/17/2007 |
| TV Writers Panel (Everybody Hates Chris, Heroes, CSI NY) | 11/10/2007 |
| Derek Rydall (Screenwriter, Actor and Author) | 10/20/2007 |
| Development Exec. Panel II | 10/13/2007 |
| Dan Decker (author of Anatomy of a Screenplay) | 09/15/2007 |
| Agent and Manager Panel (Marc Manus, Brad Kushner, and Barry Katz) | 09/08/2007 |
| The Comic Book Writers Group Presents Jan Utstein-O'Neill and Bill O'Neill, publishers of Hurricane Comics | 08/28/2007 |
| Steve Kaire ("Creating Slam Dunk Script Ideas") | 08/18/2007 |
| Iris Yamashita (Scriptwriters Network alum Oscar-Nominated for Letters from Iwo Jima) | 08/11/2007 |
| Jeff Kitchen ("Using Reverse Cause and Effect to Create a Tight Plot") | 07/21/2007 |
| Harve Bennett (Writer and Producer, Star Trek films, The Six Million Dollar Man) | 07/14/2007 |
| Michael Reaves (Writer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Emmy Award for Batman: The Animated Series) | 06/26/2007 |