NPR named it one of the best books of the. I cannot wait to share these stories with the world in 2023.” Her collection of essays, Bad Feminist, is universally considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism. Please, please read these guidelines and follow them. This imprint publishes three (3) books a year, so when submissions are closed to unagented writers, it is because my slate is currently full. ROXANE GAY BOOKS ACCEPTS submissions from both agented and unagented writers. “And all three of these novels embody what I value most in urgent, necessary fiction-they are intelligent and entertaining. ROXANE GAY BOOKS IS CLOSED TO UNAGENTED SUBMISSIONS UNTIL JUNE 15, 2022. “I’ve always had eclectic taste in reading and the first slate of titles for Roxane Gay Books reflects that and my love of powerful storytelling, unique narrative voice, and beautiful writing,” Gay said in a news release. Her work in promoting emerging talent doesnt stop there last year she launched her own publishing imprint, Roxane Gay Books, which seeks to publish and. The book will tell the story of a woman whose “choices upend the lives of everyone around her and peels back the fragile veneer of two suburban families and the secrets roiling between them.” Roxane Gay discusses Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body and Difficult Women at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. The book is “a literary romance about a headstrong artist, the Harlem brownstone she inherits from an aunt she did not know well, the mysteries it holds, and the intriguing but increasingly complicated connection she has with Parkie de Groot, an ambitious account executive at a New York auction house,” Grove Atlantic says.Īnd next November, Roxane Gay Books will publish Hot Springs Drive, a novel from Lindsay Hunter, the author of Ugly Girls and Eat Only When You’re Hungry. Books The Sacrifice of Darkness 2020 Graceful Burdens 2020 The Selected Works of Audre Lorde 2020 The Banks 2019 The Best American Short Stories 2018 2018. The publisher describes the book as “a captivating and passionate love story about two young men who may have too far a distance to bridge to find their way to one another.” Roxane Gay is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist and Hunger, the novel An Untamed State, and the short story collections Difficult. The imprint from Gay, the author of Bad Feminist, Hunger, and other titles, will kick off next May with And Then He Sang a Lullaby, the debut novel from 23-year-old Nigerian writer and activist Ani Kayode Somtochukwu. Roxane Gay has revealed the first three books that will be published under her new Grove Atlantic imprint.