The 2018 Writers Lab mentors were: Dara Bratt, Simone Pero, Susan Cartsonis, Amy Fox, Pamela Gray, Deborah Kampmeier, Patricia Meyer, Pat Verducci, Jamie Zelermyer and Enid Zentelis.
When a pop-up Halloween store opens in a haunted strip-mall, three middle school friends ditch trick-or-treating to spend the night inside, only to find themselves battling possessed animatronics.
A camera woman flees her abusive husband with her children but when the shelter system can’t protect her she finds unlikely allies in an oddball special effects studio.
The favorite son of an Egyptian diplomat assists his father at the U.N. in New York to accomplish a prestigious mission, but when a journalist threatens to reveal his homosexuality, the brilliant young man must choose between family and truth.
An unrepentant gunslinger endures a brutal cross-country trek with the bounty hunter who killed her gang and now marches the outlaw to her own hanging.
After a miraculous recovery from a terminal illness, a young African-American woman sets out to confront the mother who abandoned her — with an eleven-year old boy from a foster home who insists on coming along.
In 1890, brilliant Australian academic, who has lost his faith in God, and an unassuming Bostonian housewife with an apparent supernatural ability, scientifically prove there is life after death. This is a true story.
A recent widower struggling to raise his daughter discovers an unlikely ally in a self-destructive artist. Can these three lost souls find their way?
A proud woman with Alzheimer’s sets out across Europe for an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland, pursued by her daughter who is determined not to let her mother succeed.
After a cataclysmic event in space, an astronaut returns to Earth a stranger. Grappling with the truth of her encounter, she is torn between her life on Earth and the unknown beyond.
When a brutal hazing turns deadly, a young athlete risks his future to expose the truth, only to realize his own complicity.
A young mother and Iraq War widow who works the line in a school bus factory must decide if she will use her gift with a fiddle to carry her out of southwest Georgia for good.
Five years after leaving home, a young transgender woman returns to her estranged father, keeping a deathbed promise to her mother. As they restore the old family tractor together, they come to understand the mechanics of the heart.
Valerie A. Brotski – Outside the Wire
Galina Espinoza – Subtle Beauty
Sara Zarr – Once Was Lost
Bridget Foley – Principles of Flight
Gemma Crofts – Mayfield
Denise Meyers – Lucky 13
Yvonne Medley – The Number Hole
Lauri Donahue – Dead Reckoning
Filomena Laforgia – Soul Custody
Beth Curry – Moonflower
Brigitte Redavid – 3000 Frogs
