Allowing Yourself to Change With Angie Thomas

First Draft Episode #285: Angie Thomas

Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U
Give and On the Come Up talks about her latest book, Concrete
Rose, as well as the upcoming Blackout.


Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




Richard Wright, author of novel Native Son and memoir Black
Boy, among many other works, was born in Mississippi




Passions, soap opera 1999-2008




Pete Rich, Emmy-winning writer on many soap operas, including
Passions




The Angie Thomas Writers Scholarship at Belhaven University




Howard Bahr, author of The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil
War, and Angie’s professor at Belhaven University




Brooks Sherman, literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit
Associates




The Writer’s Voice and #PitMad are both off-shoots of Pitch
Wars




Brenda Drake, New York Times bestselling author of
Thunderstruck and Analiese Rising, and founder of Pitch Wars
and #PitMad




Russel Hornsby portrayed Maverick Carter in the movie The
Hate U Give




Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The
Belles series and co-author of Tiny Pretty Things with Sona
Charaiporta (listen to her First Draft interview here), which
is now a Netflix TV show! Listen to Dhonielle’s First Draft
interview here and here.




A Tough Act Productions


 




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Jason Reynolds - New York
Times bestselling author of critically acclaimed books,
including National Book Award finalist Ghost, Newberry and
Printz-honored Long Way Down, Coretta Scott King Honoree As
Brave as You, and his latest, middle grade Look Both Ways,
which was just named to the National Book Award Longlist for
Young People’s Literature.




Becky Albertalli - New York Times
bestselling author of Simon Versus the Homo Sapiens Agenda
and Leah on the Off Beat and co-author of What if it’s Us
WHAT IF IT’S US, with Adam Silvera and Yes, No, Maybe So with
Aisha Saeed (listen to their First Draft interview here)




Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author
of Dear Martin and Dear Justyce, Odd One Out, Clean Getaway,
and Jackpot




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