complete registration
| my classes | privacy policy
About Nora Profit

Nora Profit is an award winning journalist, feature writer, columnist, and author.  She is a featured author in Chicken Soup for the Writers Soul and Chicken Soup: Living Your Dreams. She is also the author of 10 Glaring Mistakes Amateur Writers Make and How to Avoid Them and The Ultimate Novel Writing Workbook. She has more than 400 articles in print with credentials that include weekly columnist, news reporter, contributing magazine editor, managing editor, fiction and nonfiction writer, as well as public relations professional. 

Nora founded The Writing Loft, Northern Californias only creative writing school, in 1995. It is a place where she is changing the way would-be writers think about their artistic abilities, the craft of writing and the practical side of the industry. She has developed a program whereby writers can make an impact through newspapers, books, magazines, television, the theater and the movie industry using easy-to-comprehend methods that ensure success.

"Anyone can learn to write and write well, says Nora, Writers have always been on the forefront of bringing meaning and significance to the events that influence our lives. Thats why writing well and with impact is so important.

Before founding The Writing Loft, Nora owned the public relations firm, The Profit Exchange, helping companies create the edge needed to compete in their respective markets.  The Profit Exchange provided companies with the necessary publicity to expand their markets, acquire clients and increase their recognition. Nora operates The Writing just like The Profit Exchange, with one goal in mind--to help her writers to reach their goals of publication and writing success. 

Her speaking credits include the National Organization of Naval Officers, The Writers Resource Center, California Writing Clubs, groups associated with Poets and Writers, various writers organizations and workshops, as well as other professional organizations. 

Awards and Personal Achievements

Outstanding Writer of the Year
San Francisco Women in Communications

Hedgebrook Writers' Colony
Whidbey Island, WA

Delegate to the White House
Conference on Small Business

California State Business Conference, Speaker