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• ROXANE GAY HAS STARTED A $25,000 WRG FELLOWSHIP—FOR SUBSTACKS.
• GAY LNCH FELLOWSHIP SCHEME FOR ASPIRG WRERS THROUGH SUBSTACK
• ROXANE GAY STARTS PUBLISHG IMPRT WH GROVE ATLANTIC
• ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT OPENS DOORS
• THE AUDACY.SUBSCRIBESIGN HOMETHE AUDAC BOOK CLUBARCHIVELEARBOARDABOUTTHE AUDACY IS A NEWSLETTER OM ROXANE GAY, BUTG ON JANUARY 11, 2021.
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• ROXANE GAY BOOKS: NOW ACCEPTG MANCRIPT QUERI
• THE FIRST THREE BOOKS OM ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED.
• 50 MT-READ BOOKS REMEND BY ROXANE GAY
• BOOKS BY ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY IS STARTG A NEW IMPRT AT GROVE ATLANTIC.
• ROXANE GAY
• YOUR READG PATHWAY TO ROXANE GAY BOOKS
• ROXANE GAY IS STARTG AN IMPRT WH GROVE ATLANTIC; THE 2021 N+1 WRERS AWARDS CEREMONY
• ROXANE GAY WOULD HAPPILY WORK AT A BARN & NOBLE

ROXANE GAY HAS STARTED A $25,000 WRG FELLOWSHIP—FOR SUBSTACKS.

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 LNCH FELLOWSHIP SCHEME FOR ASPIRG WRERS THROUGH SUBSTACK

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 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.

Wrote Gay her announcement, “The fellowships are open to wrers om all backgrounds but I am prrizg wrers om unrreprented muni.

ROXANE GAY STARTS PUBLISHG IMPRT WH GROVE ATLANTIC

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. Roxane Gay is lnchg a new one-year fellowship programme which will see her support three aspirg wrers.

ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT OPENS DOORS

The thor and profsor has announced the Joel Gay Fellowship through her Substack, The Audacy. As a part of the programme, Gay will meet wh each of the fellows once a month throughout the urse of the year to provi mentorship on both the craft and navigatg the bs of wrg, and will also promote each fellow on a regular basis via her Substack.

"I am thrilled to partner wh Substack on the Joel Gay creative fellowships, " said Gay. This fellowship begs to addrs that shortage while also honourg the memory of my brother, Joel Gay, who was so passnate and creative and eager to engage wh the world. Books|Roxane Gay Starts Publishg Imprt Wh Grove Atlantic 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.

THE AUDACY.SUBSCRIBESIGN HOMETHE AUDAC BOOK CLUBARCHIVELEARBOARDABOUTTHE AUDACY IS A NEWSLETTER OM ROXANE GAY, BUTG ON JANUARY 11, 2021.

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.

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”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 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: NOW ACCEPTG MANCRIPT QUERI

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

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. (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.

THE FIRST THREE BOOKS OM ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED.

) 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.

50 MT-READ BOOKS REMEND BY ROXANE GAY

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.

”In addn to workg wh thors on eds and revisns, Gay will help them navigate their book lnch and beyond.

BOOKS BY ROXANE GAY

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. 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.

ROXANE GAY IS STARTG A NEW IMPRT AT GROVE ATLANTIC.

”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

Gay.

Eight months after the lnch of Roxane Gay Books, an imprt of Grove Atlantic seekg to publish “betifully wrten, provotive, telligent, [risky]” wrg, Roxane Gay Books has announced s first list: will publish three novels 2023, om Ani Kayo Somtochwu, J.

Said Gay herself, “I’ve always had eclectic taste readg and the first slate of tl for Roxane Gay Books reflects that and my love of powerful storytellg, unique narrative voice, and betiful wrg. Is jt me, or are we all jt bidg our time until the next piece of work by Roxane Gay is released?

YOUR READG PATHWAY TO ROXANE GAY BOOKS

In the says, he grows om stunt to teacher, rear to wrer, and reckons wh his inti as a son, a gay man, a Korean Amerin, an artist, an activist, a lover, and a iend. Lucky and her hband, Krishna, are gay.

ROXANE GAY IS STARTG AN IMPRT WH GROVE ATLANTIC; THE 2021 N+1 WRERS AWARDS CEREMONY

Her su rocked the tech world–and exposed s toxic culture and s homogeney. Hnted and hntg, Jon’s memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man om the South as he fights to rve out a place for himself, wh his fay, wh his untry, wh his own hop, sir, and fears.

For more remendatns by Roxane Gay, check out this list of books she’s remend on Twter! Books by Roxane Gay (Author of Hunger),.

Books by Roxane Gay. Roxane Gay. Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author).

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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author) (Edor),. Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author) (Wrer),. Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author),.