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Nicole Criona, Co-Founder and
Owner
Los Angeles South Bay
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Nicole is current owner and co-founder of LAwritersroup.com and is a native Angelino. She has
been running writers groups and supporting writers on their novels,
screenplays, short stories, poetry, essyas and memoirs for more than nine years. She also runs the day-to-day operations of LAwritersgroup.com
and moderates our LA South Bay Writers Group. As Director of
Operations and Development at a prominent screenwriting school, she worked supporting
and guiding emerging screenwriters, as well as being a writer in her
own right. After managing several medium-sized independent
businesses, and working as an Assistant at George Carlin's company, she
decided to learn production, and produced three short films. THE
SHOOTING was her first producing project, and screened at the Austin
Film Festival, IFFM in New York, Cleremont-Ferrand in France, and the
Taos Talking Pictures Festival. She went on to produce DEATH
STORIES #3: THE LAST IMPRESSION, and MONSTERS! MONSTERS!
MONSTERS! She was both Assistant to the Director and Key Research
on MICHAEL & ME, a documentary released in 2005. She wrote a
popular blog where according to blogpulse.com, for a single lovely day
in December 2005 her blog was 15th most popular blog in the world for a
post about Craigslist. In addition to writing poetry and short story
fiction, she has written articles for IG Living Magazine, and is
currently a Web Copywriter and SEO Writer. She has most recently had
stories published on Hissquarterly.com (Sanity is
a One-Trick Pony issue), Six
Sentences, and
Narrative Magazine and is currently working on a novel.
Nicole attended Mount St. Mary's College as a Liberal Arts
Major and took writing courses at the UCLA Writers program.
Sanora
Bartels,
Co-Founder
Glendale / Glassel Park
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Sanora has been running writers groups for
nearly 8 years and in 2006 graduated with a Master of Professional
Writing degree from University of Southern California. She has
studied with various poetry mentors, including Cathy Colman (Borrowed Dress), Ron Koertge (Making Love to Roget’s Wife), and Holly Prado (from one to the next). At USC, she studied screenplay writing with Syd
Field (Screenplay) and has since completed a full-length screenplay titled
“Straying Home” which made it to the Semi Finals of NexTv’s 2010
Writing and Pitch Competition. Her poetry has been published in
Wordwrights!
magazine and
New Millennium Writings. Her full-length poetry manuscript is titled
The Order of Things. Sanora is a teacher of Vedic Meditation and has written
several pieces on Vedic philosophy and has had over 20 articles
published. You can find her meditation schedule on
www.VedicMeditationTeacher.com. Sanora is a co-editor on the
Meditation page of
www.AllThingsHealing.com.
Lara McGlashan-Volz
LA South Bay: Hermosa Beach, El Segundo
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 Lara
McGlashan-Volz is a long-time member of the LAwritersgroup.com writers
groups. She is a working freelance writer specializing in
heath, fitness and nutrition. She has been working in the Los Angeles
area as such for the past 12 years, and her clients include Self,
Shape, Fitness, Oxygen and Marie Claire. Lara graduated from the
University of Wisconsin with a double major in French and English, then
went on to disappoint her parents by becoming a ski instructor for two
years in the Rockies. Fortunately, she made back some brownie points
when she went back to school at the University of Miami and graduated
with an MFA in screenwriting and film production. She is currently
working on completing her novel, a murder mystery based in the realm of
health and fitness.
Kirby Timmons, Moderator
Santa Clarita, CA
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 Kirby
Timmons is a professional writer, trainer and speaker who has written
scripts for some of TV's most enduring series, including THE WALTONS,
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GRIZZLY ADAMS, and THE INCREDIBLE HULK. Kirby has
also written, produced and directed hundreds of training programs,
including THE ABILENE PARADOX, named one of the 5 best business videos
of all time by Fortune Magazine; GROUPTHINK, winner of the American
Psychological Associations Award for Best Training Program; and
TEAMWORK IN CRISIS: The Miracle of Flight 232, now used in disaster
programs worldwide, including Columbine High School in Colorado.
While he has
concentrated in scriptwriting, Kirby is also a published author, and
has contributed articles to THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE LOS ANGELES
DAILY NEWS, THE HERALD-EXAMINER, MARRIAGE & FAMILY LIVING Magazine,
among others. Kirby taught Scriptwriting For Informational Media
at California State University at Northridge, and has lectured at Los
Angeles Valley College. He has also taught high school screenwriting
workshops with the Writer's Guild Foundation.
After attending
Oglethorpe University in his hometown of Atlanta, Kirby studied at USC
where he graduated with a B.A. cum laude in Philosophy. He has been a
member of the Writer's Guild of America longer than he can remember,
and a member of the American Society of Training & Development for
less long.
Among Kirby's recent
writing projects is a teleplay for CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION which
won scriptwriting competitions at Scriptapalooza and Austin, and Grand
Prize in Hour-Long Drama at the WildSound Film Festival in Toronto.
Despite being the "best CSI episode ever written" (his words), it is
not currently under consideration by producers of the show.
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