About us
skillca.mp is a non-profit organization providing free and low cost skills training, reskilling and business development education globally, focusing on underserved communities.
Learn more at https://skillcamp
Some of our classes are free and some are limited to supporting members (from $10/month suggested donation). There are no membership dues or fees required to attend our free classes. We want to make all our classes accessible to everyone. If you can't donate right now, you can request a tuition waiver for any paid class.
ScriptCamp: Welcome beginning and experienced screenwriters! We host regular screenwriting bootcamps, classes, script coverage and career coaching from professional, repped screenwriter Conor Kyle. Each week there are a few live & virtual classes, workshops, Q&As and intensive 6- to 8-week bootcamp courses that take you from idea to first draft, to polished feature screenplay or TV pilot.
ScriptCamp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://discord.gg/Qy3E35DZna
WordCamp: Welcome beginning and experienced writers! We are a writing community focused on helping you take your concept from idea to first draft to polished script. We cover novels, Join the 12-week NaNoWriMo Novel Bootcamp
WordCamp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://discord.gg/yJBPRqUpN5
FilmCamp: Welcome beginning and experienced filmmakers. We are a filmmaking community focused on helping you take your concept from idea to production to final edit. Join our cinematography, directing, producing and post-production classes!
FilmCamp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://discord.gg/Bw2TjmSFux
ToonCamp: Welcome beginning and experienced animators. We are an animation community focused on helping you take your concept from idea to storyboards to production and final edit. Join our free 12-week Animation Lab!
ToonCamp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://discord.gg/jpmsjkVYe8
About the Instructors:
Conor Kyle has written for Shudder's Creepshow (2019) and placed twice in the Nicholl Fellowship with his scripts “Peter and the Wolves” (quarterfinals, also Launchpad top 10) and The Tube (semifinals). His screenplays have also been featured on the annual Hit List, Young & Hungry List, Spec Book, and on Tracking Board’s “Best Writers of the Year” booklet.
Rebekah Humphrey-Bullen is a UK based Middle Grade and Teen writer who won the Golden Egg Award in 2022 with her novel Echoes on Titan. She has a first look deal with Chicken House Books, a division of Scholastic Press founded by Barry Cunningham, best known for discovering the Harry Potter series.
Scarlet Chen is an award-winning Chinese-Canadian screenwriter, playwright, director, and stand-up comic. Her feature FORTUNE SPRINGS won first place in the 2018 UCLAx Screenplay Competition. After years of experience working as a PA, script supervisor and staff writer on high profile Chinese television series and Hollywood co-productions (KILL BILL, THE KITE RUNNER, LOOPER and IRON MAN 3 ), she sold her original Sci-Fi Thriller TV pilot DREAM RAIDER to HBO Asia. Scarlet's one act play A COFFEE FOR YOU will premiere at the 2025 Nanaimo Fringe Festival.
Upcoming events
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Unreal Engine Workshop: FREE Game Design Meetup | GameCamp
Location not specified yetEnter the live meeting room here: https://discord.gg/5wgxtr4c2u
Download the engine here: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/download
Welcome to the Unreal Engine Workshop! In each session we'll tackle essential game design discussions, then transition into hands-on project creation. Participants will build and expand their skills continuously as we explore every aspect of game development. From basic blueprints and interactive mechanics, to advanced rigging, animation, environment design, and lighting, we'll work our way up to creating small complete games. We encourage experimentation and peer teaching, so whether you're a beginner or experienced developer looking to deepen your expertise, our sessions provide a supportive environment to learn, create, and innovate together in Unreal Engine 5.
8 attendees
QUEER WRITERS GROUP
·OnlineOnlineWelcome! Queer Writers Group is a sanctuary for storytellers exploring identity, desire, transformation, and truth. A supportive, craft-driven community for LGBTQIA+ writers.
We gather to share pages, offer thoughtful feedback, and hold space for vulnerability on and off the page.All genres welcome — poetry, speculative fiction, memoir, romance, horror — as long as the work carries the pulse of lived or imagined queer experience.
We believe queer stories deserve complexity.
We believe craft sharpens claws.
We believe writing can be ritual.Whether you’re drafting your first chapter, polishing a manuscript, or conjuring something dangerous and divine, This a place to be witnessed, challenged, and celebrated.
Come as you are.
Bring your shadows.
Leave sharper.If you'd like feedback on your work, post it in thIs channel ahead of time.
For 18+ projects, use this thread in the 18+ feedback channel https://discord.com/channels/1014566948362793050/14594770703620547382 attendeesQUEER WRITERS GROUP
·OnlineOnlineWelcome! Queer Writers Group is a sanctuary for storytellers exploring identity, desire, transformation, and truth. A supportive, craft-driven community for LGBTQIA+ writers.
We gather to share pages, offer thoughtful feedback, and hold space for vulnerability on and off the page.All genres welcome — poetry, speculative fiction, memoir, romance, horror — as long as the work carries the pulse of lived or imagined queer experience.
We believe queer stories deserve complexity.
We believe craft sharpens claws.
We believe writing can be ritual.Whether you’re drafting your first chapter, polishing a manuscript, or conjuring something dangerous and divine, This a place to be witnessed, challenged, and celebrated.
Come as you are.
Bring your shadows.
Leave sharper.If you'd like feedback on your work, post it in thIs channel ahead of time.
For 18+ projects, use this thread in the 18+ feedback channel https://discord.com/channels/1014566948362793050/14594770703620547382 attendees
The Writer’s Lab (Free workshop on Zoom & Discord)
·OnlineOnlineThe Writer’s Lab (Free workshop on Zoom & Discord)
Enter the live meeting here:
Discord: https://scriptca.mp
RSVP for Zoom meeting inviteThe Writers Lab is an intensive workshop where Conor Kyle and other pro writers are available to help you work through specific problems with your story ideas, outlines, loglines, or pages from your novels, short stories, or screenplays.
Through one-on-one chats and group discussion, lab participants engage in a rigorous process that helps you get past whatever issues you encounter during the outlining and writing process.
About the Instructor
Conor Kyle has written for Shudder's Creepshow (2019) and placed twice in the Nicholl Fellowship with his scripts “Peter and the Wolves” (quarterfinals, also Launchpad top 10) and The Tube (semifinals). His screenplays have also been featured on the annual Hit List, Young & Hungry List, Spec Book, and on Tracking Board’s “Best Writers of the Year” booklet.
5 attendees
Past events
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