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Presented By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Career Skillshare: Breaking Into TV and Film Writing

Lillian Li, Emily McLaughlin, Shane Slattery-Quintanilla, and Lauren Wilkinson

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This event is virtual-only (via Zoom) and is open to Helen Zell Writers' Program MFA students, Zell Fellows, and alumni, as well as U-M graduate students. It is not open to the general public. Please email Ashley Bates (asbates@umich.edu) for login instructions.

Our panelists include:

Lillian Li (2015 Helen Zell Writers' Program alum) is the author of Number One Chinese Restaurant. She has experience adapting her novel and short stories for TV, working with producers and co-writers, pitching to networks, developing a series, and starting all over again (or "pivoting"). She has been represented by CAA and the Gersh Agency, and has worked with Simpson Street, ABC Studios, and Hulu.

Emily Jace McLaughlin (2010 Helen Zell Writers' Program alum) has published stories in Catapult, VICE (US, UK, Mexico), Fiction, Cutbank, Joyland, Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Innovative Writing, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and more. Her essays are forthcoming in Vol. 1 Brooklyn and HipMama Mag. She won seven Hopwood awards for her novel, short stories, essays and play, and was honored with UM's Meijer Post-Graduate Fellowship. In addition, Emily’s work has received fellowships and funding from VCCA, Sewanee Writers Conference, Kenyon Writers Conference, Tin House, Wesleyan Writers, Key West Writers, UCLA, and Featherstone Center for the Arts. She was a screenwriter for the long-running Warner Brothers sci fi show Supernatural and worked as a script consultant for ABC Daytime Television Development as well as Raw Feed Productions. She has developed stories made for television movies for Stargazer Productions, and has worked in the writers' offices of the Warner Brother Television Shows, The OC, One Tree Hill, and Smallville.

Shane Omar Slattery-Quintanilla (2010 Helen Zell Writers' Program alum) is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist, and Associate Professor of Film at Vassar College. He is writer, producer, and co-director of photography of The Seventh Fire, executive produced by Terrence Malick, Natalie Portman, and Chris Eyre. The Seventh Fire follows two Ojibwe men struggling with the rise of gang and drug culture on their reservation in Northern Minnesota. The film premiered at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival and was featured at a special White House screening in 2016. Shane also wrote, co-produced, and edited The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández, a feature documentary about the killing of an 18-year-old American high-school student by US Marines. The film, narrated by Tommy Lee Jones, was broadcast nationwide by PBS and nominated for a 2009 Emmy Award. Shane received his BA from Harvard College and his MFA from the University of Michigan. His poems have been published in The New England Review and his lyric “Searchlight Soul” was adapted by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom for use in an original vocal score. He is a member of the Nomadique Arts Collective, a cooperative dedicated to community building and social change through the arts.

Lauren Wilkinson is the author of the debut novel, American Spy, which was a Washington Post bestseller, an NAACP Image Award nominee, and was included on Barack Obama’s 2019 Recommended Reading List. Lauren earned an MFA in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University, and has taught writing at Columbia, Randolph College and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Believer, New York magazine and The New York Times, among other publications. Lauren splits her time between New York and Los Angeles where she has been in writers rooms for CITADEL, an Untitled Brie Larson Project, CLASS OF '09, and STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. She has also sold a pilot for an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s LIBRA on which Paul Giamatti served as Executive Producer.

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