Humanities and Social Sciences

Sharon Boorstin, UCLA Extension Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) member, author and former restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, interviewed Barbara Fairchild, former editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit for a special fall ...

Andre Hardy's deep connection with football inspired him to create and publish his debut novel, "Tear the City Down." A former NFL player, Hardy's relationship with the sport has had its ups and downs, but the experience was fertile literary ground he ...

Michelle Fisher grew up in a Virginia household that was immersed in the news. Her mother was a radio host and her father was a T.V. broadcaster. She would follow them to their jobs and watch them work on Take Our Daughters to Work Day. They taught ...

Cinema helped Elie El Choufany survive during his tough childhood. As an adult, cinema has helped him thrive - both as a screenwriting instructor for UCLA Extension and now as a newly announced 2026 Academy Nicholl Fellowship winner. "All my life, ...

Brian Sonia-Wallace believes poetry and the creative arts should be an interwoven part of society - that public displays of wordplay should be commonplace. To follow through on that ethos, he has spent the last 15 years lugging around a Remington ...

April is National Poetry Month and the UCLA Extension Writers' Program is offering five free workshops to help writers get into the rhythm (or the meter) of writing poems. Each features state and local poets laureate, and enrollment remains open. ...

UCLA Extension has built its Writers' Program steadily into a place where writers - from the established to the merely curious, and everyone in between - have found a home. Now in its 60th year, the prestigious program counts more than 400 courses ...

Rebecca Yarros's "Empyrean" book series promises readers they will enter a "brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders." The books include elements regarding war, battle, hand-to-hand combat, perilous situations, blood, intense ...

Marissa Pianko felt restless. She had a good life. She had a loving family and a financially lucrative career. She was happy. But approaching mid-life, she wanted to feel passionate about her contribution to the wider world. One day, she stumbled upon ...

Clifford Brooks wears many hats — poet, editor in chief, podcaster, head of a writers collective and UCLA Extension instructor. Through those endeavors he has created a community for himself as a writer, fostering projects across professions and ...