Publishing Series
WRBG x Liveright Publishing
Launching in 2025
Starting in 2025, Liveright Publishing will publish a series of debut fiction titles with Glory Edim, writer, editor, and founder of the Well-Read Black Girl (WRBG) book club. She is enthusiastically waiting to read your fiction manuscripts — books that vividly describe where we’ve been, what we’re living through, and the worlds we imagine for our futures.
PRESS: Yrsa Daley-Ward To Make Fiction Debut with Series
“WRBG x Liveright will be 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 Well-Read Black Girl community, will not simply be read, but also treasured, and shared for years to come.”
In the last six years, we’ve witnessed the growth and transformation that happen when the publishing industry recognizes the power of Black readers and writers. WRBG x Liveright pushes these efforts even further, seeking to 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. The literary 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 release two titles per year, beginning in 2023.