WNDB Launches Black Creatives Fund
By Jim Milliot
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Feb 17, 2021
As part of its increased efforts to bring more change to book publishing, We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) is partnering with Penguin Random House on a series of programs designed to get more books by Black writers published. Operating under the Black Creatives Fund banner, the initiative consists of three parts: a “Revisions Workshop,” a mentoring program, and market symposia conducted in partnership with the Brown Bookshelf.
Dhonielle Clayton, an author and COO of WNDB, is overseeing the entire initiative. She said that after surveying Black authors, it became apparent that the area in which they struggle the most in the writing process is making revisions. “Authors repeatedly hear that their books are ‘not ready for market,’” Clayton told