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WRBG X Liveright Launching 2023
Liveright Publishing to Launch New Literary Series with Glory Edim
Liveright Publishing will publish a series of debut fiction titles with Glory Edim, media entrepreneur, writer, editor, and founder of the Well-Read Black Girl book club.
“WRBG x Liveright” will launch in 2025, will feature women and non-binary authors, with a focus on people of color and traditionally underrepresented voices.
The partnership will build on the ever-growing network of engaged readers Edim has fostered under the Well-Read Black Girl platform and continue the longstanding tradition at W.W. Norton & Company of re-envisioning literature for future generations.
Building on the thriving international WRBG community and the publication of On Girlhood, the “WRBG x Liveright” series will solicit agented submissions for debut fiction from women and non-binary authors. The works of fiction will be jointly submitted to, and acquired by, Glory Edim and Gina Iaquinta, editor at Liveright.
The series will celebrate POC and underrepresented voices and build on the legacy of Liveright’s storied fiction list, which published such stars of the Harlem Renaissance as Jean Toomer, Eric Walrond, and Jessie Redmond Fauset and, under Iaquinta’s curation, now includes such award-winning authors as Nicole Dennis-Benn, Rion Amilcar-Scott, Amber Sparks, Virginia Feito, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan.
The series will release two titles per year, beginning in 2025.
quote from glory
“I founded Well-Read Black Girl (WRBG) in 2015 to serve as a one-of-a-kind affirming space for Black women to encounter literature and engage in critical discourse with one another.”
We started with a devotion to Black voices, but now, aware of the deep structural changes occurring in the publishing industry and public education – and the tide of rising dissent that threatens to silence authors of color and queer, non-binary, trans, and disabled writers – it is time to expand our work.
Liveright Publishing and I have created the ‘WRBG x Liveright’ line as a series of impossible-to-resist works of debut fiction through which readers will encounter new narratives that reflect many diverse cultural perspectives. I’ve found that it is often through fiction - through reading and the act of empathy - that our worldview can shift. It is my hope that these books, much like the works celebrated by the WRBG community, will not simply be read, but also treasured, and shared for years to come.”