Writer’s Resources

Fiction

• Tomi Adeyemi

• Angie Thomas

• Natalie Bazile

Screenwriters

• Ava Duvernay

• Tracy Oliver

• Tina Gordan

• Gibbs Sisters

TV Writers

• Shonda Rhimes

• Lena Waithe

• Eboni Freeman

• Isa Rae

• Tayari Jones

Creative nonfiction/memoir/content creators

• Luvvie

• Marley Dias

Follow blogs with critical commentary and excellent resources 

• Shadow and Act

• Blavity

Playwrights

• Liesl Tommy

• Anna Deavere Smith

• Letters to a Young Artist

• Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts

• Lisa Marie Rollins

• Playbill – 10 Major African American Playwrights

• Blavity – 13 Black Women Playwrights You Should Know

• Lorraine Hansberry

• Alice Childress

Poets

• Arisa White

• Tracy K. Smith – Wade in the Water

Screenwriting

• The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler

• CG Fewston – A bloggers exploration of the writer’s journey

• The Heroine’s Journey Project

• Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational Arc by Dara Marks

• Making a Good Script Great by Linda Seger

• Save the Cat by Blake Synder

• The Screenwriter’s Bible by David Trotter

• The Art of Dramatic Writing Lajos Egri

• Story and Dialogue by Robert McKee

• How to Write a Movie in 21 Days: The Inner Movie Method by Viki King

• Writing TV Drama by Pamela Douglas

What you can learn from reading produced screenplays

• Screenwriting Magazine

Read the trades every day and every script you can get your hands on.

• The Hollywood Reporter

• Variety

• Deadline

• IMDB
  

Follow blogs with critical commentary and excellent resources

• Shadow and Act

• Blavity

• 2019 Oscar Nominated Screenplays

• Stage 32

• Write the Truth

Sources for scripts

• The Script Lab

• Simply Scripts

• The Writer’s Store

Sources for plays

• Samuel French for plays

Patronize Independent Bookstores AND add your voice to all the bookshelves!

• Marcus books in Oakland and 

• Eso Won in Los Angeles

• AALBC - Selling Black Books Since 1997

Resources for Writers

• Grammarly

• Final Draft (for screenwriting, tv and plays)

• California Writers Club

• Common Sense Media

• Money-Saving Guide for Authors and Writers

• PBS

• PBS Learning Media – Middle School

• PBS Learning Media – High School

• Podcasts with stories for tweens and teens Wow in the World – NPR

• Welcome to Night Vale

• Adobe Spark Movie Maker

• StoryCorps

National Programs and Competitions

Writing Programs – for writers and educators. Sources chosen based on youth focused missions and excellence

All Genres

• Cinnamongirl, Inc.

Fiction

• NaNoWriMo

• Tomi Adeyemi Exclusive Writing Downloads — Tomi Adeyemi | CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE

• 826 Valencia

• Emerging Writers Institute – Berkeley and Stanford

• National Writing Program

• Iowa Young Writers Program

• AWA Writing Workshop Leaders

Poetry

• Jason Taylor Foundation

• The Omari Hardwick bluapple Poetry Network

Playwriting

• 3 Girls Theater

• GirlWrights

• The John Fox

• StoryUp

• KidsCamps.com – creative writing camps

• Young Writers’ Camp – Duke

• Eth-No-Tec

• Asian American Storytelling Camp

• PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship

• Poets and Writers

• Stacked – YA Literary Agency