Selena Kuznikov The Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment has selected its latest class for its New Writers Fellowship, which trains emerging writers to succeed in Hollywood.
The fellowship entails in-person and virtual masterclasses, panels, workshops, and table reads. The 2024 class of television writers were paired up with high-level writing mentors to revise their scripts and worked with creative executive mentors for pitch workshops.
Program speakers included writers Charles Yu (“Interior Chinatown”), Angela Kang (“The Walking Dead”), Chris Collins (“Sons of Anarchy,” “John Wick Chapter 3”), literary managers Peter McHugh (Gotham Group), Daniel Vang (3 Arts), Vivek Kolli (Link Entertainment), executives Nathan Kitada (senior creative executive, Tentpole and Universe Development, Amazon Studios) and more.
Featuring top industry writers, producers, agents and executives, the Fellowship was co-founded and is co-chaired by Leo Chu, showrunner and executive producer for “Ultra Violet” and “Black Scorpion,” and Steve Tao, veteran TV executive and producer previously at The CW, ABC and Bad Robot. “I am very proud of this class.
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