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Julie Ann Sipos is an American novelist, screenwriter, producer, and educator. She is the author of Horrible Women, Wonderful Girls: A Jaycee Grayson Novel (2025), which received the Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards Grand Prize, an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Gold Medal, a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Gold Medal for Humor, and an IBPA Book Award Silver Medal for Humor. The book was also named an Eric Hoffer Book Award category finalist.[1][2][3][4]

Early career

Sipos began her career in screenwriting and entertainment. Her screenplay Adios, Dubrovnik reached the final round of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting in 1996.[5] The screenplay was later listed among the Academy's 2003 Nicholl quarterfinalists.[6]

In 2004, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Sipos was among the winners of the UCLA Screenwriters Showcase.[7]

Writing career

Sipos's debut novel, Horrible Women, Wonderful Girls, was published in 2025. The novel received coverage from Publishers Weekly, BookLife, Kirkus Reviews, BookTrib, NewInBooks, and Midwest Book Review.[8][9][10][11][12][13]

The novel was selected as a BookLife Editor's Pick.[14]

In 2025, Coral Gables Magazine featured Sipos in its June "Best Bets" listing for a Books & Books event discussing the novel and its Coral Gables influences.[15]

In children's publishing and entertainment, Sipos authored Love from Morning to Night: Poems and Songs for Mommy and Baby, published by American Girl in 2015.[16] She is credited as executive producer and lyricist on the related American Girl Bitty Baby songs project.[17] ABC News identified Sipos as an American Girl executive producer in connection with the launch of the company's Melody character and related media projects.[18]

Sipos was also an executive producer of the American Girl film Lea to the Rescue (2016).[19]

Academic career

Sipos teaches screenwriting and storytelling at California State University, Northridge. CSUN Today identified her as executive producer of the statewide "Here's the Pitch!" television pitch competition and reported that a Student Academy Award finalist documentary developed by former students originated in one of her classes.[20][21]

Awards and recognition

  • Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting — Final round (1996), Adios, Dubrovnik; Quarterfinalist (2003), Adios, Dubrovnik
  • UCLA Screenwriters Showcase — Winner
  • Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards — Grand Prize
  • Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) — Gold Medal
  • Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards — Gold Medal, Humor (Adult Fiction)
  • IBPA Book Awards — Silver Medal, Humor
  • Eric Hoffer Book Award — Category Finalist

Bibliography

  • Love from Morning to Night: Poems and Songs for Mommy and Baby (2015)
  • Horrible Women, Wonderful Girls: A Jaycee Grayson Novel (2025)
  • The Girlfriend Guide to Negligent Homicide: A Jaycee Grayson Novel (forthcoming)

Filmography

  • Lea to the Rescue (2016) — executive producer

References

  1. "Announcing the Winners of the 33rd Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards". Writer's Digest.
  2. "2025 Foreword INDIES Winners in Humor (Adult Fiction)". Foreword Reviews.
  3. "Winners: Humor". Independent Book Publishers Association.
  4. "Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalists". Eric Hoffer Book Award.
  5. "1996 Nicholl Fellowship Recipients". Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  6. "Academy Nicholl 2003 Ceremony". Oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  7. "Koepp lauded at UCLA fest". The Hollywood Reporter. June 18, 2004 – via IMDb.
  8. "Indie Spotlight: April 2026". Publishers Weekly.
  9. "Indie Spotlight: Humor and Satire". BookLife.
  10. "Horrible Women, Wonderful Girls". Kirkus Reviews.
  11. "BookTrib's Bites: Four Charming Spring Reads". BookTrib.
  12. "Interview with Julie Ann Sipos, Author of Horrible Women, Wonderful Girls". NewInBooks.
  13. "Small Press Bookwatch". Midwest Book Review.
  14. "Horrible Women, Wonderful Girls: A Jaycee Grayson Novel". BookLife.
  15. "June Best Bets: Giant Bugs, Poinciana Parties, and More". Coral Gables Magazine.
  16. "Love from Morning to Night". WorldCat.
  17. "Making of Bitty Baby Songs – Behind the Scenes – American Girl". YouTube. American Girl. Retrieved June 15, 2026.
  18. "10 Things You Should Know About American Girl's Newest Doll". ABC News. August 25, 2016.
  19. "American Girl's 2016 Girl of the Year Stars in Its First-Ever Action-Adventure Movie". PR Newswire.
  20. "CSUN to Host Final for a TV Pitch Competition". CSUN Today.
  21. "Recent CSUN Grads' Documentary Named Finalist for Student Academy Awards". CSUN Today.