2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

Erin Hallagan Clare is the Founder and Artistic Director of Story Parlor (www.storyparloravl.com), a narrative arts space dedicated to multidisciplinary storytelling based in Asheville, North Carolina. She is a certified creativity coach and holds a Masters in creative psychology, as well as a graduate certificate in Applied Mythology. A writer and storyteller, she has told st... Read More →

Marissa Jo Cerar is a NAACP Image Award and two-time Humanitas Prize winning writer and producer who began her career working on series such as Netflix’s 13 REASONS WHY and Hulu's THE HANDMAID’S TALE, for which she shares nominations for both the Emmys and Writers Guild Awards... Read More →

Craig Mazin is the Golden Globe, BAFTA and two-time Emmy Award-winning creator, writer and executive producer of the HBO limited series Chernobyl, for which he also won a Writers Guild, Producers Guild and Peabody Award. In addition to his work in television, Craig has written numerous... Read More →