CraftWrite is the service run by Trai Cartwright, a long time Hollywood screenwriting consultant, content creator and development specialist who has recently returned to her hometown of Fort Collins, CO.

What makes her great for any writer -- script, fiction or nonfiction -- is her wildly diverse and deep range of experience.  While working in Hollywood, she’s

• Evaluated over 5,000 scripts, films and books.
• Worked with hundreds of writers.
• Taught at writers conferences and writers groups across the Southwest.
• Worked as a Development Executive, Story Editor and Content Creation Manager for 20th Century Fox, HBO, Paramount Pictures, New Line Cinema, Universal Studios and Prelude Pictures.
• Worked for Leonardo DiCaprio’s online entertainment venture.
• Produced three independent films (“Offshore,” “Trap,” “Dinner Rush”) .
• Worked above the line on two major studio feature films (“Lost in Space,” “Black Dog”).
• Optioned four of her own screenplays.
• Placed in the semifinals of several major Hollywood screenwriting contests.
• Judged many of those major Hollywood contests.
• Studied fiction at the UCLA Writers Program.
• Mentored teen screenwriters for six years.

Since returning to her hometown of Fort Collins in 2009, she

• Teaches Screenwriting at Laramie County and Front Range Commuity Colleges.
• Works with one-on-one with writing clients & teaching writers groups.  
• Runs a teen arts program (Explorati Teen Writers Boot Camp), now in its third year.
• Runs the Explorati Teens Film & Theater Camp for its inaugural year.
• Ghost-writes corporate education articles and white papers for Future Workplace and Association of Students at Colorado State University.
• Helped Victory House Publishing and Bailiwick Press launch new literacy programs and marketing campaigns.
• Produced 15 special events for Bas Bleu Theater, raising nearly $30,000 for their Capital Campaign.
• Judged the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition in Hollywood.
• Attended one year of CSU’s MFA Creative Writing Program.
• Now attends the University of California Riverside's low residency MFA program.

For a quick link to Trai Cartwright's resume, click here.

To inquire about CraftWrite Services or to engage Trai as a speaker, send an email to trai@craftwrite.com.