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Mara Brock Akil’s Writers’ Colony Reveals 2025 Winter And Spring Cohort Members
Mara Brock Akil’s Writers’ Colony has named writers for both its spring and winter cohorts.
Amandla Baraka ‘s portfolio ranges from brands such as Target and American Express, to directorial work on music videos (Masego and Don Toliver’s “Mystery Lady) and short film (“Lost Keys”), all of which are centered in her mission to tell stories with honesty and care. EJ Lykes, Los Angeles based writer and producer, whose work includes Ruby Rose Collins’ “all the love i could handle,” which was selected for Voices of Culture and will premiere during the 2025 American Black Film Festival, amongst others. Kirby Marshall-Collins, a TV drama writer and director whose work focuses on amplifying the voices of Black and queer people, who has throughout her career succeeded as a 2023 Disney Writing Fellow, a Panavision New Filmmaker Program grant recipient for her coming-of-age short WAYS TO FLY (2025) which premiered at the Pan African Film Festival.
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