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• ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT OPENS DOORS
• ROXANE GAY STARTS PUBLISHG IMPRT WH GROVE ATLANTIC
• ROXANE GAY

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The Audacy is Roxanne Gay’s bi-monthly newsletter that featur an emergg wrer twice a month. ROXANE GAY BOOKS IS CLOSED TO UNAGENTED SUBMISSIONS UNTIL 2024 BECAUSE WE ONLY PUBLISH THREE BOOKS A YEAR AND HAVE TITLES THROUGH AUDACITY IS CLOSED TO EMERGING WRITER SUBMISSIONS UNTIL DECEMBER BECAUSE WE HAVE FILLED ALL THE SLOTS FOR 2023.

ROXANE GAY BOOKS ACCEPTS submissns om both agented and unagented wrers. Roxane Gay Books prriz unrreprented wrers and do so, proudly. Gay.

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In the past lerary polymath Roxane Gay has penned two story llectns, the say llectn Bad Femist, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, and the novel An Untamed State, all to acclaim. Now to this résumé she adds acquirg edor for a publishg hoe, as she brgs her acumen to helm Roxane Gay Books, a new imprt of Grove Atlantic announced and edor Roxane Gay announced news of her imprt May 2021.

THE AUDACY.SUBSCRIBESIGN HOMETHE AUDAC BOOK CLUBARCHIVELEARBOARDABOUT{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"WEBSE","NAME":"THE AUDACY.","PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"THE AUDACY.","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":"},"SAMEAS":["]},"URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","URL":"},"SCRIPTN":"WRG THAT BOLDLY DISREGARDS NORMAL RTRATS. ","POTENTIALACTN":{"@TYPE":"SEARCHACTN","NAME":"SEARCH THE AUDACY.","TARGET":"SEARCH_TERM_STRG}","QUERY-PUT":"REQUIRED NAME=SEARCH_TERM_STRG"}}THE AUDAC ROUNDUPFOR THE WEEK OF JULY 31ST AND AUGT 7THAUG 14 • ROXANE GAY81SHARE THIS POSTTHE AUDAC COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER1FOURTEENEMERGG WRER SERIAUG 9 • KAY HEATH120SHARE THIS COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER11OUT NOW: LH LIV BY J. VANSA LYONTHE SEND NOVEL OM ROXANE GAY BOOKSAUG 2 • ROXANE GAY89SHARE THIS POSTOUT NOW: LH LIV BY J. VANSA COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER7THE AUDAC ROUNDUPFOR THE WEEK OF JULY 17 AND JULY 24THJUL 31 • ROXANE GAY102SHARE THIS POSTTHE AUDAC COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER5RIVERMOUTH: BUILDG COMMUNYWHAT ROLE DO LANGUAGE PLAY BUILDG MUNY? HOW DO ALEJANDRA OLIVA’S TRANSLATN WORK MATERIALLY AFFECT THOSE SHE’S TRYG TO HELP? IN…JUL 28 • ROXANE GAY38SHARE THIS POSTRIVERMOUTH: BUILDG COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER3MOST POPULARVIEW ALLA FAYFEB 5, 2021 • ROXANE GAY924SHARE THIS POSTA COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER103WE ARE ALL FRAGILE CREATURAPR 1, 2021 • ROXANE GAY606SHARE THIS POSTWE ARE ALL FRAGILE COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER36A WHE MAN'S BAD DAY MAR 17, 2021 • ROXANE GAY461SHARE THIS POSTA WHE MAN'S BAD DAY COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER14FEEDBACK LOOPSJUL 7, 2022 • ROXANE GAY584SHARE THIS POSTFEEDBACK COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER64BIG FAT IMAGATNSJUN 7 • ROXANE GAY522SHARE THIS POSTBIG FAT COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER51NEWTOPCOMMUNYTHE PRICE OF BEG ALIVEON NAVIGATG THE EXTRAORDARY ST OF HEALTHREJUL 28 • AUBREY HIRSCH306SHARE THIS POSTTHE PRICE OF BEG COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER5THE DEMULCENT OF SHAMEEMERGG WRER SERIJUL 27 • JASON PROKOWIEW235SHARE THIS POSTTHE DEMULCENT OF COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER36RIVERMOUTH: WHAT IT MEANS TO DO THE WORKLET’S DISCS CHAPTER 15. IN THIS SECTN, ALEJANDRA OLIVA TALKS ABOUT HER STGGL WH BEG A TRANSLATOR AT THE BORR. SHE WORRI ABOUT WH…JUL 20 • ROXANE GAY3SHARE THIS POSTRIVERMOUTH: WHAT IT MEANS TO DO THE COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER3THE AUDAC ROUNDUPFOR THE WEEK OF JULY 10THJUL 18 • ROXANE GAY105SHARE THIS POSTTHE AUDAC COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER5RIVERMOUTH: BEYOND BORRSIN THE FIRST SECTN OF RIVERMOUTH, ALEJANDRA OLIVA WR ABOUT HER TIME VOLUNTEERG AT THE BORR CROSSG TIJUANA. SHE SCRIB THE ARDU…JUL 13 • ROXANE GAY38SHARE THIS POSTRIVERMOUTH: BEYOND COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER7PROUD FLHEMERGG WRER SERIJUL 12 • CATHERE SIMONE GRAY172SHARE THIS POSTPROUD COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER37THE AUDAC BOOK CLUB: RIVERMOUTHA CHRONICLE OF LANGUAGE, FAH AND MIGRATN BY ALEJANDRA OLIVAJUL 10 • ROXANE GAY AND MEGAN PILLOW78SHARE THIS POSTTHE AUDAC BOOK CLUB: COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHER4SEE ALLTHE AUDACY.WRG THAT BOLDLY DISREGARDS NORMAL RTRATS. SUBSCRIBEREMENDATNSVIEW ALL 12CRAFT TALKJAMI ATTENBERGWERK-IN-PROGRSSAEED JONLISTENG THE DARK WH AMBER TAMBLYNAMBER TAMBLYNCUP OF STARSCARMEN MARIA MACHADOFROM THE DK OF ALICIA KENNEDYALICIA KENNEDYTHE AUDACY.SUBSCRIBEABOUTARCHIVEREMENDATNSSEMAPSHARE THIS PUBLITNTHE COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERTHE AUDACY.

(Cred: Reggie Cunngham)Roxane Gay Books will put out three tl a year, at least to start, wh the athetilly omnivoro Gay stg a wi terms of the submissns she’s seekg—story and say llectns, novels a variety of genr, as well as nonfictn and memoirs.

) What Gay is not necsarily lookg for is prr publishg experience, blurbs, a social media platform, an agent, an MFA, or a llege gree. In dispensg wh the requirements, Gay tends to ve submissns om wrers tradnally locked out of publishg opportuni: namely, people wh the talent and disciple to wre a powerful work of art but not the nnectns or opportuni that e wh beg llege ted, whe, upper middle class, or loted New York Cy, the dtry’s seat.

While the imprt’s submissns procs is liberately clive, Gay plans on brgg a clear and tentnal edorial pot-of-view to the mancripts she selects. ”“I’m gog to publish books that I love, ” Gay said a recent ll over Zoom, “and that I feel as an edor I n brg somethg valuable to.

ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT OPENS DOORS

”In addn to workg wh thors on eds and revisns, Gay will help them navigate their book lnch and beyond. She herself was grateful to receive guidance early on her reer om novelist Tayari Jon, who, Gay rells fondly, actually lled her on the phone to share dtry advice.

”This imprt is not the only way Gay is disptg typil dtry practic.

ROXANE GAY STARTS PUBLISHG IMPRT WH GROVE ATLANTIC

A fellow will help her sift through submissns and will spl their time workg for Roxane Gay Books and rotatg through the edorial, publicy, marketg, and rights divisns at Grove Atlantic.

“They won’t jt be puttg together mailgs, ” says Amy Hundley, a vice print of Grove Atlantic, Gay’s own edor at the publisher, and Gay’s llaborator for the imprt. Hundley says that, over the years, she and Gay have often talked about the lack of diversy publishg, which is signifint part an enomic issue. ”Taken together, Roxane Gay Books and the Grove Atlantic fellowship is a small but important enavor to bat the chokehold of whe and upper-middle-class hegemony not jt the lerary marketplace, but behd the scen at the publishg-hoe level.

But as Gay herself is the first to adm, this imprt, along wh a few others led by Black women, are not enough; on the Audacy she wrote we won’t see real change “until the dtry mak this kd of iative the le rather than the exceptn. ”Still, Gay is exced to beg mostly and see what through the submissns, which opened this summer via Submtable; Gay plans to look at all of them.

ROXANE GAY

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTRoxane Gay Books will foc on unrreprented fictn, nonfictn and memoir wrers, wh or whout CunnghamRoxane Gay wears many hats — profsor, edor, social mentator, advice lumnist — but she is perhaps most wily known as a bt-sellg wrer, whose books clu the say llectn “Bad Femist” and a memoir, “Hunger. Roxane Gay Books will be part of Grove Atlantic, the publishg hoe announced Wednday, wh plans to release three tl a year, a mix of fictn, nonfictn and memoir, and a foc on unrreprented has published books before, she said a phone terview, though on a very small sle.

It has published Gay’s fictn sce 2014, startg wh her first novel, “An Untamed State. ”Grove also said Wednday that plans to offer a paid, one-year fellowship program that would serve as a crash urse publishg, for applints whout accs to such jobs through tradnal will select and ed the books her imprt publish, but she will also work closely on the projects wh Amy Hundley, an executive edor at Grove who eds Gay’s work. Hundley said that Gay’s eye for talent, addn to the talent she herself posss, was enormoly appealg to Grove.

Roxane Gay has ed wrg as a means to untangle and munite her own trma sce childhood. Gay shar her Brief But Spectacular take on effective ways of beg heard.