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- ROXANE GAY
- THE AUDACY.SUBSCRIBESIGN HOMETHE AUDAC BOOK CLUBARCHIVELEARBOARDABOUTTHE AUDACY IS A NEWSLETTER OM ROXANE GAY, BUTG ON JANUARY 11, 2021.
- ROXANE GAY HAS STARTED A $25,000 WRG FELLOWSHIP—FOR SUBSTACKS.
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ROXANE GAY
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Roxane GayWrer, edor, cultural cric. Gay.
Big news for aspirg bloggers everywhere: yterday, Roxane Gay announced that, partnership wh Substack, she is lnchg a new wrg fellowship for three emergg wrers to velop and publish a Substack newsletter this year.
Gay will also meet wh fellows once a month over the urse of the year as a mentor on both wrg craft and bs, and promote each fellow regularly via her Substack, The Audacy.
THE AUDACY.SUBSCRIBESIGN HOMETHE AUDAC BOOK CLUBARCHIVELEARBOARDABOUTTHE AUDACY IS A NEWSLETTER OM ROXANE GAY, BUTG ON JANUARY 11, 2021.
The Joel Gay Creative Fellowships, named after Gay’s late brother, are open to any wrer who don’t have a book published or unr ntract.
ROXANE GAY HAS STARTED A $25,000 WRG FELLOWSHIP—FOR SUBSTACKS.
Wrote Gay her announcement, “The fellowships are open to wrers om all backgrounds but I am prrizg wrers om unrreprented muni. This is the latt curatnal move om Substack, who lnched their Substack Fellowship for Inpennt Wrers 2019, and has nsistently given sizeable advanc to notable wrers—like Chuck Palahni, Gee Snrs, and Gay herself. When Gay lnched her own newsletter, she wrote, “It didn’t matter how different the bloggers [whose blogs I ed to read] were.
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This week, we terviewed wrer and cultural cric Roxane Gay, who has built a potent muny on The Audacy by hostg says om emergg wrers.
This terview has been lightly eded for length and GayIn many ways, wrg a newsletter is like bloggg, which is why I enjoy dog . I publish a graphic say om a great artist named Aubrey Hirsch, and every weekend I publish a lk roundup, and then as the mood tak me, I will put longer says durg the week, generally on Tudays or so, but there’s no real nsistency to more: Stranger Thgs, by Aubrey Hirsch and The Audac Round Up, by Roxane GayFor my say, sometim ’s an ia that I’ve been mullg over.
Subscribe to Roxane Gay’s newsletter, The Audacy, on Substack, and follow her on Twter here. The wrer Roxane Gay told me she earned back her advance wh two months of startg The Audacy ($60 a year) wh an dience of 36, 000, about 20 percent of them payg.
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Gay said. 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.