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Our Happiest Hours
All photos by Lillian Beaudoin
Getting to share time together with so many of you this year has been a magical exercise in camaraderie.
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Every third Tuesday of the month since February 2026, you took the plunge to spend...
The Download: What's Up at The Black List in October
Here’s a snapshot of what’s been going on at The Black List this month! Keep scrolling to learn more about our October…
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OPEN PROGRAMS ON BLCKLST.COM
The 2027 Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship —...
Open Tabs: See What The Black List Team Has Been Enjoying in October...
Welcome back to Open Tabs, a regular series here on Substack. Keep scrolling to learn more about what we’ve all been enjoying this autumn…
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Shelby Kovant, Director of Writer Development
Almost anyone who has talked...
An Excerpt from STITCHER by Dan Salgarolo
The Unpublished Fiction series highlights high-performing fiction manuscripts on The Black List.
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You can explore our Unpublished Fiction Series archive here — we’ve shared excerpts of manuscripts in many genres, so there is...
The Black List Interview Redux: Danya Jimenez & Hannah McMechan
Hannah McMechan & Danya Jimenez
Today, we talk to Danya Jimenez & Hannah McMechan, writers of the original pilot BLACKFRIARS. This writing duo participated in our 2017 Episodic Lab with Women in Film, and here they discuss how the pas...
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Artist. Curator. Cookware enthusiast. Eternal interior design student. Advocate for Books and the people who write them, the people who make them, the people who read them. British crime dramas are my weakness.
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