Lori Hunt
Writer
TV, Fiction, Features
Pre-WGA
ACCOLADES
Awards & Placements
PUBLISHED WORK
Ink to Read
SPECIAL PROJECTS
The Writers Room
Photo Credit: Aaron Jay Young
MUA: Aimee-Beth Diamond
about
Writer Info
ACCOLADES
| Project Title | Genre/Format | Contest/Laurel |
|---|---|---|
| Battery Operated Boyfriend | Dramedy/Pilot | Roadmap Writers SF/Top 25; Screencraft QF; Screencraft Virtual Pitch SF; Launchpad Second-Rounder/Top 100; Outstanding Screenplays SF; Inroads Fellowship QF; Athena Writer's Lab SF; Shore Scripts QF; Finish Line Honorable Mention. |
| Lady Boss | Dramedy/Pilot | WeScreenplay QF; Athena Writer's Lab SF |
| Enhancements | TV Drama/Spec Episode | The Stunt List |
| Twisted Skies | YA/Manuscript | Coverfly's The Red List; Launchpad Prose Second Rounder |
PUBLISHED WORK
essay
Voices Carry
Certain Age Magazine
on Substack
essay
Keepsakes
Kelp Journal
Winter 2024
essay
Grief Ghosts
You Might Need to Hear
This Magazine
book review
Daughters of Smoke & Fire
The Coachella Review
b0ok review
No Gods, No Monsters
The Coachella Review
book review
Kids in America
The Coachella Review
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Humanitas & Hollywood HS
Humanitas partners with Hollywood High School for the first of its kind TV Writers Room.
Students participate in a 12-Week program with a professional TV writer.
Students select a current show to examine. They then create a spec episode. Past shows have included On My Block and Abbott Elementary. The co-creators of On My Block, Eddie Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft, attended a table read of the final student script and stayed for a Q & A with the students.
Humanitas and Eddie Gonzalez created an inaugural competitive scholarship for participants of The Writers Room which in turn has become an annual scholarship.
The current season has the Hollywood HS students writing a spec for Ghosts.
Senior Portrait
High School Graduation!
Lori is passionate about lots of things. Her latest online search obsessions include books, coffee, zombies, outdoor living spaces, wireless bras, lip balm, zodiac signs as boba drinks, best wine patios, screenwriting hacks, doomsday prepping, urban gardening, Tokyo Owl Café, and Texas BBQ.She is an educator with twenty years of experience teaching high school English, four of those as a high school Assistant Principal. Along with an MA in Educational Leadership, she has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of CA, Riverside's Palm Desert Low Residency Program where her main genre was fiction, and her cross-genre was screenwriting. She recently completed UCLA’s Professional Certificate Program in TV Writing.She served as the Fiction Editor for the 2021 Winter Issue of The Coachella Review, UCR’s literary magazine and she is the current Prose Editor at Writers Resist. Her nonfiction has been published by Kelp Journal, You Might Need Hear This Magazine, and The Coachella Review, among others.
EDUCATIONUCLA - TV Writing (1 Hour Drama)
School of Theatre, Film & Television Professional Programs
Professional CertificateUniversity of CA - Riverside - Creative Writing
MFA, Low Residency ProgramCA State University - Los Angeles - Educational Leadership
MA, College of EducationUniversity of South FL - Theatre/Performance
BA, College of Arts & SciencesEXPERIENCEEducator & Administrator: Los Angles Unified School District
Studio Teacher: Contract Services
Prose Editor: Writer's Resist
Fiction Editor: The Coachella Review