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Contents:

• ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT OPENS DOORS
• ANNOUNCG OUR 2021 GBBY AWARD WNER: ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY '92 TO RECEIVE JOHN AND ELIZABETH PHILLIPS AWARD
• ROXANE GAY BOOKS: NOW ACCEPTG MANCRIPT QUERI
• ROXANE GAY PARTNERS WH MASTERCLASS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE-THEMED COURSE
• SIMPLE JTICE ROXANE GAY, STILL THE VICTIM
• ROXANE GAY WS PEN FREEDOM TO WRE AWARD
• YOUR READG PATHWAY TO ROXANE GAY BOOKS
• AUTHOR ROXANE GAY RECEIV 2015 'FREEDOM TO WRE' AWARD
• ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY APPOTED GLORIA STEEM ENDOWED CHAIR MEDIA, CULTURE AND FEMIST STUDI
• SPRG EISNER LECTURE: ROXANE GAY CONVERSATN WH WH TAYLOR

ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT OPENS DOORS

’ Neher Should Simpson/Hser & WirthRoxane GayDr. Gay, a ntributg Opn wrer, is the edor of “The Selected Works of Audre Lor” and the thor of the memoir “Hunger, ” among others. We’re only human, and so, too, are the people who love Gay (@RGay) is a ntributg Opn wrer for The New York Tim.

She wr a newsletter, “The Audacy, ” and she hosts the podst “The Roxane Gay Agenda. ” @RGay A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 25 of the New York edn wh the headle: In Defense of Th Sk and Not Takg a Joke. 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.

ANNOUNCG OUR 2021 GBBY AWARD WNER: ROXANE GAY

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

ROXANE GAY '92 TO RECEIVE JOHN AND ELIZABETH PHILLIPS AWARD

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.

ROXANE GAY BOOKS: NOW ACCEPTG MANCRIPT QUERI

“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.

ROXANE GAY PARTNERS WH MASTERCLASS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE-THEMED COURSE

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. Her llectn of says, Bad Femist, wily and crilly nsired the hallmark llectn of morn femist disurse, cultural cric, bt-sellg thor, and femist Roxane Gay striv to brg simplicy, openns, and cln to the ncept of “femism, ” often nsted as exclnary or judgmental. We're thrilled to announce that we're givg our annual Gbby Award at L Up this year to bt-sellg thor Roxane Gay.

Roxane Gay’s wrg appears Bt Amerin Mystery Stori 2014, Bt Amerin Short Stori 2012, Bt Sex Wrg 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, T Hoe, Oxford Amerin, Amerin Short Fictn, Virgia Quarterly Review, and many others. You n jo Roxane Gay and the whole GbStreet muny onle for the 2021 L Up showse and fundraiser on Wednday, September 29th. General Alumni Associatn Print, Tstee and Awards Commtee Chair Betsy Flemg ’86 has announced that Roxane Gay ’92 will receive the 2023 John and Elizabeth Phillips Award, which regniz an Exonian who has ntributed signifintly to the welfare of muny, untry or humany.

SIMPLE JTICE ROXANE GAY, STILL THE VICTIM

As a wrer, edor, and cultural cric, Gay has built a reputatn as one of the preement mentators on ntemporary society and s most prsg issu. Gay was award a Guggenheim fellowship 2018 and has been the recipient of numero lerary awards.

More recently, she has partnered wh Grove Atlantic to lnch Roxane Gay Books, a publishg imprt that foc on unrreprented voic.

Gay has tght creative wrg at Occintal College, Eastern Illois Universy, Purdue Universy and Yale Universy, among other stutns. Roxane Gay will receive the John and Elizabeth Phillips Award and speak durg assembly on October 27.

ROXANE GAY WS PEN FREEDOM TO WRE AWARD

Profsor Gay will see you now.

Esteemed thor, edor, profsor and cultural cric Roxane Gay has partnered wh digal tn platform MasterClass to teach a class on wrg for social change. “Through hont discsns around the tersectns of race, sexualy, genr and other social jtice issu, Gay will teach members how to own their inty, wre about trma wh re and urage and hone their voice to ntribute to the world a posive way, ” per today’s announcement. Teachg is not new for Gay.

YOUR READG PATHWAY TO ROXANE GAY BOOKS

For MasterClass, Gay will utilize her works as se studi. Gay helped break the news by postg on Twter to her 820, 000 followers and revealg some tails about the productn. — roxane gay (@rgay) Febary 18, 2021.

AUTHOR ROXANE GAY RECEIV 2015 'FREEDOM TO WRE' AWARD

It’s the latt piece of news for the ever-by Gay.

Last fall, THR reported that Gay was teamg to adapt the graphic novel The Banks to TKO Studs and Macro.

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ROXANE GAY

A memoir that’s so brave, so raw, feels as if [Gay]’s entstg you wh her soulSeattle Tim. Gay turns to memoir this powerful reflectn on her childhood trmas…Timely and ronant, you n be sure that Hunger will touch a nerve, as so much of Roxane Gay’s wrg do.

Gay ni that hers is a story of “triumph, ” but rears will be hard prsed to fd a better word. In 88 short, lucid chapters, Gay powerfully tak rears through reali that pa her, vex her, gui her, and rm her work.

ROXANE GAY APPOTED GLORIA STEEM ENDOWED CHAIR MEDIA, CULTURE AND FEMIST STUDI

And on nearly every page, Gay’s raw, powerful prose plants a flag, facg down s of shame and self-loathg by reclaimg the body she never should have had to lose.

SPRG EISNER LECTURE: ROXANE GAY CONVERSATN WH WH TAYLOR

Gay, live your life. We all need to hear what Gay has to say the pag....