Showrunner Sessions is our ongoing event series where we go one-on-one with a showrunner (or showrunning team). For this session, we’ll hear from Julie Plec and Carina Adly Mackenzie, the showrunners behind the Prime Video original series We Were Liars. Learn about Julie and Carina’s impressive journey through the industry, how they run their writers’ room, and their advice for adapting books into a hit television series.

The Writers Guild Foundation teams up with Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting for a conversation about writing bold and complex young women authentically. We’ll explore how writers develop these strong characters, how to approach sensitive scenes intentionally, and how they navigate nuances of character personalities, behaviors, and motivations.

Join Entertainment Career Coach/Talent Agent Consultant Jim Arnoff in an immersive, interactive coaching group for one-on-one coaching, group coaching, networking and resourcing to supercharge your writing career. Bring whatever challenges and topics are on your mind that are getting in the way of your moving forward powerfully in your writing career. 

The Writers Guild Foundation, in partnership with the Writers Guild of America West and Deadline, presents Sublime Primetime 2025, our annual event celebrating the Emmy-Nominated writers for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.