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Open Tabs: See What The Black List Team Has Been Enjoying in August...
Welcome back to Open Tabs, a regular series here on Substack. Keep scrolling to learn more about what we’ve all been enjoying this month…
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Dipping into the recent p...
Why We Write: Malcolm Ivey
It’s time for another Why We Write piece and this one comes from writer Malcolm Ivey.
Take it away, Malcolm!
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“The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity…” George Orwell, author of 1984, wrote th...
An Excerpt from YOUR NUMBER ONE FAN by Ally Gilfeather
The Unpublished Fiction series highlights high-performing fiction manuscripts on The Black List.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You can explore our Unpublished Fiction Series archive here — we’ve shared excerpts of manuscripts in many genres, so there is...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 Download: What's Up at The Black List in August
It’s almost time to head back to school, so here’s a snapshot of what’s going on at The Black List before we all hit the books again! Keep scrolling to learn more about our month…
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OPEN PROGRAMS ON BLCKLST.COM
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The Moral Case for Selling Out: The Video Version
Our very first Black List Live! read of Stephany Folsom’s 1969 A SPACE ODYSSEY
In January 2026, our founder and CEO Franklin Leonard published The Moral Case for Selling Out Parts I and II on Substack. The essay quickly took on a life...
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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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