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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 |
| Enhancements | TV Drama/Spec Episode | The Stunt List |
| Twisted Skies | YA/Manuscript | Coverfly's The Red List; Launchpad Prose Second Rounder |
PUBLISHED WORK
essay
Keepsakes
Kelp Journal
Issue 12 Winter 2024
essay
Grief Ghosts
You Might Need to Hear
This Magazine
essay
The Tree of Life
GXRL
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 where the co-creators of On My Block, Eddie Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft, attended a table read of the final student script.
Humanitas and Eddie Gonzalez created an inaugural competitive scholarship for participants of The Writers Room which in turn has become an annual scholarship .
L. A. Hunt 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.Her protagonists are almost always women, on the verge of all that life has to offer—the love, the loss, the conflict, and the heartbreak—all part and parcel of coming of age, at any age.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. Her nonfiction has been published by Kelp Journal, You Might Need Hear This Magazine, GXRL, and The Coachella Review, among others.
EDUCATIONUCLA
School of Theatre, Film & Television Professional Programs
Hour Drama Professional CertificateUniversity of CA - Riverside
Palm Desert Low Residency MFACA State University - Los Angeles
College of Education MAUniversity of South FL
College of Arts & Sciences BAEXPERIENCEEducator: Los Angles Unified School District
Adjunct Faculty, English: Santa Monica College
Studio Teacher: Contract Services
Prose Editor: Writer's Resist
Fiction Editor: The Coachella Review