Angie Powers

Angie Powers has an M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from Mills College, where she won the Amanda Davis Thesis Award for her novel, The Blessed. She also has a Certificate in Screenwriting from the Professional Programs at UCLA. She is the co-director and co-writer of the short Little Mutinies (distributed by Frameline and an official selection of the Palm Springs International Short Fest) and was a quarter-finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship and at Blue Cat Screenplay Competition for the full-length screenplay of Little Mutinies. She’s twice made it into the second round of consideration for Sundance Labs and is a Cinestory semi-finalist this year. She also wrote and directed the short Hot Date, which premiered at Frameline. She is currently finishing a new novel and a short film.

Pitch Week in the Book Writing World

Featured, For Members / By

What good timing! Everyone’s gone baseball crazy and this week is pitch week in the BWW. The pitch is a great tool–useful at cocktail parties, for getting an agent and also for clarifying and streamlining the structure and character arc of your book. In other words, it has practical applications at the creative and business levels. We revisit this in each of the courses. (In Revision, you look at a related but more thematically oriented summation of your book: your premise.)

And in the conferences, we’ll all be pitching–not just Judith! So come and holler out your pitch. If you need help, you’ll get help. If you just need a standing ovation, well, you can get a virtual one of those.

Pitch Week in the Book Writing World Read More »

What Writers *Need* to Know About Body Language: the video

Featured / By

[vimeo 14683466] [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/14683466[/vimeo] Sharon Sayler is a BWW member and a published author. Her new book, What Your Body Says (and how to manage the message), can change your relationships and what you understand communication to be. She recently came to the BWW to talk to us about what writers need to know about body

What Writers *Need* to Know About Body Language: the video Read More »

Report

Harassment or bullying behavior
Contains mature or sensitive content
Contains misleading or false information
Contains abusive or derogatory content
Contains spam, fake content or potential malware

Block Member?

Please confirm you want to block this member.

You will no longer be able to:

  • See blocked member's posts
  • Mention this member in posts
  • Invite this member to groups
  • Message this member
  • Add this member as a connection

Please note: This action will also remove this member from your connections and send a report to the site admin. Please allow a few minutes for this process to complete.

Report

You have already reported this .
0

Your Cart