Jeff Willis is an entertainment executive with over twenty years of experience working for industry-leading companies including Marvel Studios, The Walt Disney Company, Skydance, Blumhouse, Columbia Pictures (Sony), and others. A California native and graduate of the film program at California State University, Long Beach, he has a number of feature film and episodic series […]

Jessica Hobbs is a writer with a BA in Film Studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder, a background in opera, TV production, and film festivals, and a passion for all things strange and unusual. Her scripts have landed as finalists in the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, the Hayes Horror Fellowship, and Lady Filmmakers Festival, and she […]

Joe Clarke is an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter based in Las Vegas. Joe has written and directed seven feature films distributed worldwide in over 160 countries on platforms including Amazon, Netflix, VUDU, and Tubi. He has won top awards for his feature film Alta Vista, including Best Picture at the London Independent Film Awards and Best Screenplay […]

John Aviña is a comic book writer from Chicago and was recently nominated by the Chicago Reader as the best comic book writer in Chicago. John has been writing comics since 2020 and writing scripts since 2013 when he attended Tribeca as a screenwriter. John has traveled all over the states to many different conventions […]

Jordan Rosenfeld is author of the forthcoming novel Fallout (Running Wild Press), as well as Women in Red and Forged in Grace and six books on the craft of writing, most recently How to Write a Page-Turner, the bestselling Make a Scene, Writing the Intimate Character, A Writer’s Guide to Persistence, Writing Deep Scenes and Write Free. Her freelance writing has been published in hundreds […]

Joshua Corin is the author of critically acclaimed novels, most recently Assume Nothing from Thomas & Mercer, and bestselling comic books, most recently Spider-Man/Deadpool from Marvel. His screenplay Windfall won first place in the Open Door Contest co-sponsored by Dimension films, and the video essays he has written for clients such as Wisecrack have received millions of views. His work has […]

Julia F. Green (she/her) is an award-winning writer, editor, and instructor. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches creative writing at universities and arts organizations around the Triangle and online.

Karen Krumpak (she/her) has over a decade of experience helping writers create their best work. A former editor with Writer’s Digest magazine and WD books, she now provides editorial services to publishers and independent authors of fiction, nonfiction, and select poetry through her company, Future Perfect Editing. Her goal is to support writers’ publishing goals and help […]

Karen Richardson manages the Mentoris Project, a nonprofit that publishes biographical novels and biographies about inspiring historical world-changers. Through that and her work with private clients at her own company, Indie Pub Solutions, she has published over 100 paperbacks, hardcovers, e-books, and audiobooks. She is the author of Harvesting the American Dream, a novel inspired […]

Kay Tuxford is the writer of the recent indie dramedy The MisEducation of Bindu, executive produced by the Duplass Brothers.  A graduate of Chapman University's Screenwriting MFA program and a Knott Scholar, Kay's writing placements and wins include Austin Film Festival, the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowships, and Script Pipeline. Straddling the analytical and the creative, Tuxford graduated in […]