🙋‍♂️Q&A [FREE]: Breaking In with The Black List: A Fiction Writers’ Guide to the Platform w/ Randy Winston

​What if your unpublished novel could land on the desk of an agent, a publisher, and even a film or TV producer?

​For nearly twenty years, The Black List has been Hollywood’s go-to resource for discovering exceptional screenplays. Now, they’ve expanded into fiction, and the opportunities for authors are unlike anything else in publishing. Overseeing this new initiative is Randy Winston, former Director of Writing Programs at the Center for Fiction.

​Join is for a Q&A with Randy as we explore how The Black List offers transformative support for fiction writers, from hosting your manuscript to getting professional feedback, to programs like labs, fellowships, mentorship, and publication deals.

​We’ll explore:

• ​How The Black List works for fiction writers

• ​How to post your manuscript, access professional evaluations, and opt into fiction-specific programs

• ​Information about the Unpublished Novel Awards 

• ​How published authors can use the platform to pitch adaptation rights to Hollywood

• ​What makes a manuscript stand out to The Black List’s industry readers

• ​How this expansion bridges the gap between publishing and the screen

​About Randy Winston 

​Randy Winston is an artist, curator, and literary speaker box from Atlanta, Georgia.  He is the Creative Director of Fiction at The Black List and former Director of Writing Programs at The Center for Fiction, where he managed, curated, and directed the production of all writing courses, the illustrious First Novel Prize, the famed Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship, and the highly-sought Writers Studio membership. Prior to his work at The Center, Winston served as Fiction Editor of Slice Literary Magazine for 6 years and has over 10 years of executive admin experience in higher education. Before his MFA, Randy was the editor-in-chief of, formerly Southern Polytechnic State University, now Kennesaw State University’s, online and print student publication in Marietta, Georgia. He is a 2016 graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing (Fiction) at The New School. A former Orion Magazine trustee, Winston currently sits on the board for WriteOn NYC.

​He holds a Bachelor’s in English & Professional Communication from Southern Polytechnic State University, now Kennesaw State University, where he was the first student ever to deliver a commencement address on May 10, 2014. He’s appeared in Variety, The L.A. Times, Deadline, Publishers Weekly, The New York Times, Book Riot, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Poets & Writers, The Hollywood Reporter, WIRED, and Brooklyn Magazine among others. His interviews in print, online, and on stage have included Maggie Nelson, Mohsin Hamid, Yiyun Li, Mira Jacob, Aleksandar Hemon, Victor LaValle, Zakiya Dalila Harris, Tomi Adeyemi, Mateo Askaripour, A.E. Osworth, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Rumaan Alam, Deesha Philyaw, Megha Majumdar, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Szilvia Molnar, Robert Jones Jr., Lauren Wilkinson, Morgan Jerkins, Lisa Hsiao Chen, Denne Michele Norris, Alcy Leyva, Benjamin Lazar Davis, and Hugo McCloud, among others. Winston is currently at work on his first novel.  He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

​About The Black List

​The Black List is a renowned platform dedicated to nurturing written storytelling and empowering writers to maximize their professional potential. First established in 2005 as an annual survey of Hollywood's most-liked unproduced screenplays, the Black List has since grown into a comprehensive resource for the creative industries, serving tens of thousands of writers, agents, managers, showrunners, producers, financiers, directors, actors, theater directors, and book editors.

​Our virtual marketplace, blcklst.com, caters to the film, television, theater, and book publishing industries, connecting writers from over 100 countries with their fellow writers and industry members from around the globe. We offer writers of films, television, plays, and books the ability to create a free profile within our ecosystem, providing both a public presence and an entry point to our creative community. Writers can also benefit from high-quality, transparent, and accountable feedback for a fee, with a fast turnaround time from our experienced and vetted readers.

​As a writer-centric platform, we grant our members real-time tracking of views and downloads of their hosted project, enabling informed decisions about the cost of hosting their work. Writers retain all rights to their work throughout their time on the Black List website. Further, for writers who have hosted a project and paid for feedback, the Black List does not charge any additional fees to apply for any of the dozens of exclusive programs available on blcklst.com, nor do we seek additional compensation from anyone who finds success on our site.

​​**Held immediately following our Writers’ Hour PT session, in the same room.** 

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