So are other award-nominated screenplays from the past year. The screenplay for Zola is available from Deadline for your reading delectation. The 2022 Whitney Biennial has been announced. What women are dealing with in Poland is a painful preview of what lies ahead of Roe v. Here is a grant opportunity for storytelling about the power of collective labor. I cannot begin to wrap my mind around this story about a studio building a film studio and sports arena in… space? WHAT? And by 2024? Sure, Jan. Listen in and let me know what you think, and who I should be talking to in the future. And in the second episode, a lively conversation with Terri McMillan, a writer I have long admired, and who has been a chronicler of black women’s lives for nearly three decades. To kick things off, my first episode is with the one and only T ressie McMillan Cottom and we talk, among other things, about how Morgan Wallen has not earned his mullet. The first two episodes dropped 1/25, and moving forward, each episode will be available exclusively on Luminary for the first week, and will be available wherever you enjoy podcasts from the following week onward. She’s an amazing producing/hosting partner, but I am looking forward to this new adventure. Tressie is taking time to focus on her writing and NYT column so I am going solo. In other personal news, the podcast I co-hosted with Tressie, Hear to Slay, will now be The Roxane Gay Agenda. This week in the Emerging Writer Series, Serena Burman's Juno's House Rules about love and ambivalences toward commitment and traditional relationships.
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Submissions will be open until I have 24 essays. Read the guidelines and submit your best writing. I’ve found, I think, my first few books! I am open to agented submissions so please send me great books! I am also open, again, for submissions to The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series. Roxane Gay Books is closed to unagented submissions until. We hope to see you there! It will be fun and more.
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You can also register for this if you want to spend a weekend with us. Tressie, Debbie Millman and I are hosting a writing workshop retreat in July 2022.