Come join FLB for a weekend of inspiration, information, writing, workshopping, and fun!
Saturday September 19- Sunday September 20
Culver City
Schedule: Saturday September 19th 9:30-5 9:30-10 – Intro 10-11 – Story Structure Lecture with Flb and tarot reading with Rhiannon? 11-12 – Writing Time/Individual Meetings with Flb 12-1 – Lunch 1-2 – Share Your Work 3-4 – Hang Out and Snack Time/Individual Meetings with Flb 4-5 – Discussion with Special Guest Sarah Bowlin Aevitas Agency Sunday September 20th 9:30-6 9:30-10- Intro 10-11 Discussion with Screenwriting Professor Joshua Malkin 11- 12 Discussion with Olivia Taylor Smith 12-1 Lunch 1-2 – Discussion with Lesley Arfin (Girls, Love, Betty HBO) 2-3 – Hang Out and Snack Time/Individual Meetings with Flb 3-5 – Workshop (may break into groups) 4-5 Discussion with Liz Lippman, Stampede Productions 5-6 – Party Cost $500 *Schedule subject to change
Francesca Lia Block, M.F.A., is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association and from the New York Times Book Review, School Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly. Her work has been translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Portuguese. Francesca has also published stories, poems, essays and interviews in The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Review of Books, Spin, Nylon, Black Clock, The Fairy Tale Review and Rattle among others. She has also adapted her work into screenplay form. In addition to writing, Francesca is a beloved and devoted teacher. She was named Writer-in-Residence at Pasadena City College in 2014 and in 2018-19 became a Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Redlands where she was a finalist for Professor of the Year award. Currently she teaches fiction at UCLA Extension, Antioch University, and privately in Los Angeles where she was born, raised and currently still lives. Contact: francescaliablock@sbcglobal.net