Call of Duty
WGAW members mentor military vets as part of WGF’s Veterans Writing Project.
On this Memorial Day, the Writers Guild Foundation honors the current participants and alumni from the Veterans Writing Project, the WGF’s yearlong mentorship program targeting emerging writers with U.S. military backgrounds.
Founded in 2010, the program welcomes 50–60 veterans each summer with a weekend writing retreat and pairs them with a WGAW member-mentor whom they’ll meet with regularly throughout the year. Their mission? To finish or fine-tune a screenplay or pilot script, which each veteran writer will pitch to a room of producers, executives, agents, and managers at the end of the program year. Read more >>
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