Toni Ann Johnson
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Toni Ann Johnson

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Toni Ann Johnson won the 2021 Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction for her linked story collection LIGHT SKIN GONE TO WASTE (UGA Press, 2022) selected by judge and series editor Roxane Gay. The book was nominated for a 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Short fiction and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Emerson Review, Hunger Mountain, Callaloo Journal, Xavier Review, and elsewhere. In 2020, Johnson’s novella HOMEGOING won Accents Publishing’s inaugural novella contest. The book was released in May 2021. A novel, REMEDY FOR A BROKEN ANGEL received a 2015 NAACP Image Award nomination. Johnson’s screenwriting career began with a fellowship to the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab where she was invited to adapt her stage play, Gramercy Park is Closed to the Public. She went on to write assignments for studios, networks, and production companies including Touchstone, ABC, Warner Brothers, Caravan Pictures, Paramount, HBO, Lifetime, Showtime, Fox Television, and Summit Entertainment. She is a two-time winner of the Humanitas Prize; first, for her Disney/ABC screenplay, Ruby Bridges, the true story of child who integrated the New Orleans public school system (for which she also won a Christopher Award). She won a second Humanitas Prize in 2004 for Crown Heights, another true story she developed and wrote for Showtime Television about the Crown Heights riots of 1991. Johnson wrote the TV movie The Courage To Love, as well as the FOX TV pilot, Save The Dance (based on the feature film on which she was a participating writer). She co-wrote the feature film Step Up 2: The Streets, the second installment of the successful Step Up franchise.
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