Georgia Jeffries: Writing TV, Fiction & Feminist Stories

Award-winning writer and professor Georgia Jeffries joins Cynthia Bemis Abrams to reflect on her pioneering work in television and screenwriting. From her early magazine articles to Emmy-winning work on Cagney & Lacey, China Beach and Sisters, Jeffries reveals how she broke into Hollywood's writers' rooms and built a career defined by dramatic integrity and feminist storytelling. In this rich conversation, Georgia discusses: Her transition from journalism to writing TV scripts on spec Championing women writers through her work with the Writers Guild Launching USC's first undergrad screenwriting thesis program How writing fiction compares to television Her 2024 novel The Younger Girl, based on real events in Illinois Referenced episodes with Cagney & Lacey and Lou Grant writer April Smith are linked in the resources. Resources: Georgia Jeffries' website: TV Writer April Smith on Lou Grant & Storytelling Mrs. America & TV's Dimensional Feminism CONNECT WITH CYNTHIA and ADVANCED TV HERSTORY ATVH Newsletter – tvherstory.com Website - Podcast Archive - tvherstory.com Instagram - Bluesky Social - @cynthiabemisabrams.bsky.social

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Georgia Jeffries: Writing TV, Fiction & Feminist Stories is an episode from Advanced TV Herstory |Women in TV |Television History | Feminism by Cynthia Bemis Abrams.

This episode is 48:33 long.

This episode was published on Jul 2, 2025.

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