EXCLUSIVE: The Black List has named the six projects chosen for the 2024 Writers Lab. Now in its 11th year, the project provides creative mentorship and professional support to up-and-coming feature writers as they further develop their works during a weeklong workshop in Ojai, Calif.
The participating writers and their projects are: Jade Song (Chlorine), Colton Childs (Fake-A-Wish), Caitlin Gallo and Brittany Harris (Last Refrain), Emily Adams (Margot), Danny Hogan (The Preserve) and Theo Wanderydz (Wetiko).
The Black List received more than 1,700 script submissions for the program. During the Lab, each writer will develop their screenplay through peer workshops and one-on-one sessions with working professional screenwriting mentors, including David Coggeshall (The Deliverance), Kiwi Smith (Legally Blonde),Jonathan Stokes (El Gringo), Victoria Strouse (Family Switch), Michael Vukadinovich (Greedy People) and Scott Myers of the website Go Into The Story. Below are the 2024 Writers Lab projects and bios of their respective writers: Chlorine: A competitive swimmer becomes determined to transcend into a mermaid, no matter the blood she must spill.Jade Song is a writer, art director and artist whose award-winning debut novel Chlorine was selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice, lauded as “visionary and disturbing,” and will be translated into Italian, Chinese and other languages.
Her second novel, I Love You Don’t Die, and her short story collection, Ox Ghost Snake Demon, are forthcoming from William Morrow in spring 2026 and 2027.
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