About us
skillca.mp is a non-profit organization providing free skills training, reskilling and business development education globally, focusing on marginalised and underserved communities.
All of our classes and workshops are 100% free and open to everyone. If you can donate or volunteer, even a small amount goes a long way to help make these classes possible - you can sign up on https://skillca.mp/
**scriptca.mp:** Bring your screenplays or stage plays to our critique swaps, workshops, writer's groups and around the clock table reads marathon.
🎓 Free 8-week screenwriting bootcamp
🔈 Get help in active 24/7 voice channels.
📑 Advanced screenwriters lab for repped, produced screenwriters or members who are close to it and querying and placing in contests.
🏳️🌈 This is an LGBTQ+ friendly space.
♿ We embrace accessibility and respect our disabled writers!
*scriptca.mp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://scriptca.mp*
**wordca.mp:** Bring your novels, short stories, poetry or non-fiction to our daily live readings, critique swaps, workshops and writer's groups.
🎓 Free 90-day novel bootcamp
🔈 Get help in active 24/7 voice channels.
📖 We have an advanced fiction lab for agented, published authors or members who are querying and close to getting published.
🏳️🌈 This is an LGBTQ+ friendly space.
♿ We embrace accessibility and respect our disabled writers!
🗽 We produce the Voices Against Hate podcast, celebrating the personal stories of immigrants and migrants around the world.
*wordca.mp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://wordca.mp*
**filmca.mp:** 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!
*filmca.mp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://filmca.mp*
**gameca.mp:** Welcome beginning and experienced game designers. We are a gamedev focused on helping you take your concept from idea to publishing. Join our weekly Unreal Engine Workshop!
*gameca.mp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://gameca.mp*
**toonca.mp:** 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!
*toonca.mp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://toonca.mp*
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.
Zack Kahn is best known for writing the 2017 horror film “Better Watch Out” (ranked in Rotten Tomatoes’ top 3 Christmas horror movies of all time).
He started as a writer/director/producer at Nickelodeon and has since written for “MAD,” “John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams,” Crackle, Yahoo!, and promos for numerous clients and mediums. Kahn has a Bollywood thriller in production and is developing a short-form comedy series. Additionally, he is a published author who has acted in several national TV commercials.
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.
6 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/1014566948362793050/14594770703620547387 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.
7 attendees
Past events
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