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Our
LA South Bay area groups are our newer groups. We currently have
two groups running in the Los Angeles South Bay, one in El Segundo, and
one in Hermosa Beach. The El Segundo group is run by our owner
and co-founder, Nicole Criona. Our Hermosa Beach writers
group is moderated by Lara McGlashan-Volz.
LAwritersgroup.com's writing groups are a unique combination of writers
groups, creative writing workshops, and writing critique groups.
We are very excited expand into the South Bay so that folks don't have
to drive out of the area to attend a creative writing workshop.
Writers of all skill levels and genres come to our groups for the
constructive, supportive critique on their current writing projects in
a safe environment from a qualified moderator and from fellow group
members. Our guided critique process has firm rules established
by years of experience that helps keep the critique both constructive
and supportive. Critique should help elevate your writing and get
you excited about the possibilities, not leave you feeling dejected and
discouraged.
Our groups can reignite your passion for writing, let you connect with
other writers in your area, help you create new stories through
improvisational creative writing exercises designed to open up your
creativity and elevate your writing. You will generate new ideas
every week through the writing prompts that also encourage you to
experiment with different voices and genres.
 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 thier 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.
 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.
Most of our
groups are held in private residences. The El Segundo workhop
takes place near the intersection
of Grand and Whiting, in the Southwest corner of El Segundo.
 The
Hermosa Beach workshop takes place on Pier Ave near PCH.
*Exact Address TBA upon registration for privacy reasons.
We have several groups
throughout the greater Los Angeles area. This group is most
convenient to the following areas:
- Manhattan Beach
- Redondo Beach
- Hermosa Beach
- Playa Del Rey
- Marina Del Ray
- Rancho Palos
Verdes
- Torrance
- Hawthorne
- Carson
- San Pedro
- El Segundo
- Lawndale
- Long Beach
- Inglewood
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