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We'll see you on Zoom next week!
Read the Acknowledgments attendance is completely FREE - though The Black List encourages attendees to make donations to support writer relief and emergency funds such as Authors League Fund and Baldwin for the Arts. We sincerely appreciate your support of these essential funds for authors!
Read The Acknowledgments includes deep conversations with book industry professionals from all corners of the literary world, including editors, agents, booksellers, critics, instructors, bookstagrammers, and more. You can check out the complete RTA archive here: buff.ly/UfWQadA
Randy will be joined by author and publishing industry expert Laura McGrath (MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION) and esteemed literary agent and VP Alia Hanna Habib of The Gernert Company for a wide-ranging conversation about all things books.
Join us next Wednesday at 10:30AM PT for a NEW EPISODE of #ReadTheAcknowledgments with Randy Winston! RSVP here: buff.ly/jqZ0ZyO
Read more about what we've been up to lately, only on Substack: blcklst.substack.com/p/the-downlo...
Lots of laughs were had the Montalban that night, thanks to an audience that REALLY appreciated Jen’s irreverent, metatextual take on one of the most beloved and successful films of all-time.
Were you a passenger on JAMES CAMERON’S TITANIC? Let us know in the comments!
Judy Greer, Constance Wu, Haley Lu Richardson, Anders Holm, and Nolan Gould starred in D’Angelo’s ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD-style take on the making of TITANIC.
On this day in 2017, we brought Jen d'Angelo's 2016 annual Black List script JAMES CAMERON’S TITANIC to the #BlackListLive stage!
We'll be sharing more unpublished manuscript excerpts in the coming days, so make sure you're subscribed to our Substack so you don't miss a post: blcklst.substack.com
And if you still haven't created your account on blcklst.com, you can do so here: blcklst.com/register
We're kicking off the Unpublished Fiction series over on our Substack with an exclusive excerpt of UP THE AMERICAN by Warren Smith.
Read more from UP THE AMERICAN here: blcklst.substack.com/p/the-unpubl...
Are you ready to submit YOUR manuscript for Unpublished Novel Award consideration? Submit here: blcklst.com/programs/202...
It's time to meet two more judges for the 2026 Unpublished Novel Award: Kelly Farber and Cree Myles!
Keep swiping to learn more about Kelly and Cree, who will be judging our Commercial Fiction and Speculative Fiction categories, respectively. We are so grateful to have them onboard this year!
Ready to learn more and submit your manuscript? Head to blcklst.com/programs now. We can't wait to read your manuscripts!
Submitted manuscripts can be in any genre, but they must not be under contract elsewhere. Self-published novels, regardless of ISBN status and regardless of Black List site evaluation status, will not be considered for the partnership.
Thrillers, high-concept mysteries and romances, and horror stories are of particular interest to Blackstone, as are novels that elevate familiar themes such as love, adventure, guilt, desire, betrayal, family, identity, and obsession from fresh, compelling perspectives.
One unpublished manuscript will be selected to enter into a $25,000 publishing deal with Blackstone.
🚨 DEADLINE REMINDER 🚨
Novelists, you've got THREE MONTHS LEFT to submit your unpublished manuscript to the Blackstone Publishing Novel Initiative! Submit your manuscript now: blcklst.com/programs/bla...
Were you surprised by any of the 2026 WGA Award winners? Predicting any major upsets at the #Oscars on Sunday? Let us know in the comments!
The talented writers of THE PITT, THE STUDIO and DYING FOR SEX also brought home WGA Awards for Best Drama Series, Best Comedy Series and Best Limited Series. Now there's a trio of TERRIFIC television shows worth binge-watching!
Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson continued their awards season reign with Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay wins for SINNERS and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, respectively. We have a feeling we're going to be seeing both of them onstage at the Dolby Theater later this week too...
Congratulations to all of this weekend's winners at the #WGAAwards!
All writers are welcome and encouraged to submit their plays for consideration.
We cannot wait to see the stories you share with us and TRW - hopefully, we’ll all be seeing them onstage one day soon too.
Each play will be published and licensed under The Black List x TRW Collection, which will make the work accessible to a wide range of customers, including schools, colleges and universities, community and regional theaters.
We are collaborating with TRW to publish and license at least six plays discovered on blcklst.com each year.
🚨DEADLINE REMINDER 🚨
Playwrights, you've got less than TWO MONTHS LEFT to submit your work to our partnership with TRW! Submit your play now: blcklst.com/programs/the...
How rare is an 8+ overall score from a Black List website reader? Quite rare. (As it should be.)
New data study. open.substack.com/pub/blcklst/...
Curious about how Featured Projects get selected on blcklst.com?
Open this: blcklst.substack.com/p/best-pract...