The Inciting Incident Script Competition aims to help writers discover if their work is engaging enough to captivate the Hollywood gatekeeper to receive the elusive “Recommend.” Submit your first few pages (up to 12) of your screenplay with your inciting incident or your short screenplay or one-act play. Open to writers 18 years and older. Deadline: May […]
#BlackOdysseyMedia Black Odyssey Media Novels, SS, General Non-fiction, Bio, Memoir, Black blackodyssey.net blackodyssey.net/submit info@blackodyssey.net submissions@blackodyssey.net Submissions are open March 1st through July 1st. Welcome to Black Odyssey Media. Since their May 2023 debut, Black Odyssey Media—an independent, Black-woman–owned publishing house—has been transforming the literary landscape. While traditional publishing still offers only 5–7% representation of Black […]
#stephencrane #alargebrowndog A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane was first published in Cosmopolitan, March 1901. The story was probably written in the summer of 1893, an allegory about the Jim Crow South during Reconstruction. The dog represents emancipated slaves. Students and teachers, check out our useful A Dark Brown Dog Study Guide to break-down […]
