Actuality TV producers have exhausted singers, dancers, drag artists, potters, tailors, and delightful younger individuals hoping to search out love. Now, it appears, the highlight has fallen on writers. This week, a name has appeared on social media for contestants to use to be on the pilot of a brand new present referred to as America’s Subsequent Nice Creator (ANGA).
Billed as “the groundbreaking actuality TV present for writers”, ANGA will give its contestants one minute to pitch their novels to a panel of judges that features New York Instances bestselling writer Jason Reynolds, Fox5 TV presenter Angie Goff, and stage author and comic Marga Gomez.
These which can be fortunate sufficient to win the heats, to be held in cities throughout the US, will proceed to the writers’ retreat “bootcamp” stage.
The six finalists, locked collectively for a month, will face “live-wire” challenges as they try to jot down a whole novel in 30 days. The profitable novelist might be topped America’s Subsequent Nice Creator.
Bestselling writer and Newberry Medal winner Kwame Alexander is presenting the present, and is listed as government producer. In a promotional video posted on the show’s Twitter feed, Alexander mentioned will probably be “the primary actuality present for writers produced by writers. That is your probability, if you happen to’re writing the Nice American Novel or the nice memoir masterpiece or one thing, that is your probability to get revealed.”
The present is aiming to draw a large and numerous vary of candidates: “America’s Subsequent Nice Creator is devoted to together with writers who aren’t usually given a seat on the desk in mainstream publishing”, reads the mission assertion on its web site. “Contestants don’t need to be graduates of elite MFA applications that mainly assure an open door to the ebook enterprise. The collection will function writers from communities and cultures all throughout America who convey their distinctive voices to readers and the world of literature.”
It isn’t but clear, nonetheless, what the final word prize might be, though Alexander appeared to trace on the promotional video that it could embrace a publishing deal.
Presently, ANGA is accepting purposes to participate within the filming of the pilot present in San Francisco. It gives contestants the prospect to “come away with concrete recommendation from publishing trade professionals” and, for the winner of this pilot warmth, $2,500 (£2,116).
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