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An Exclusive Excerpt from THE INVISIBLE RUNNER by Dennis Haseley
Our Unpublished Fiction Series exists to highlight outstanding, well-performing fiction manuscripts on The Black List.
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Why We Write: Jeane Phan Wong
Why We Write is back with another new essay from Jeane Phan Wong, an alum of our 2016 Episodic Lab with WIF. Jeane has worked on series like ARROW, SANDOKAN and AZNBBYGRL since participating in the Episodic Lab.
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Hollywood-adjacent but pretty unbothered by it. Rejected from every poetry magazine since 1996.
Writer, editor, director, curator. Big fan of cookware. Student of interior design. Books and the people who write them, the people who make them, the people who read them. British crime dramas are my weakness.
Founder & CEO, the Black List. Film & TV producer. Politics and football (soccer) person. Vanity Fair contributing editor. American Cinematheque and Gotham board member.
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