Bill Johnson is a produced playwright, optioned screenwriter, and has read manuscript submissions for a literary agent. For many years he was a board member of the Northwest Playwrights Guild. His play The Baggage Handler won best of Festival in the Stage This! Festival in New York. Pre-Life, Pre-Nuptial, about a couple arguing about a pre-nuptial agreement before they are born, was produced in New York and Oregon. Other short plays produced include the award-winning the Baggage Handler (best ten minute play winner). Full-length plays produced include Yours, From the Heat of My Heart and In Our Image. Bill is author of A Story is a Promise and The Spirit of Storytelling, a workbook that explores how to create dramatic, engaging stories; and web master of Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing, a site that explores principles of storytelling through reviews of popular movies, books and plays (www.storyispromise.com). Bill is recently retired as the office manager for Willamette Writers, a Pacific Northwest non-profit writing group with 1,350 members. He has lead workshops on writing around the United States, including the Southern California Writing Conference, Surrey Writing Conference, and the Expo Screenwriting Conference in Los Angeles, where he was a featured speaker.