Toy Styles Explained

Toy Styles (born 31 January), pen names T. Styles, Reign and Mikal Malone, is an American author, screenwriter and film producer of urban fiction.

According to Styles her first novels, Black & Ugly and A Hustler's Son, were written in a week.[1] Black & Ugly reached number 3 on the Essence magazine bestseller list.[2] She owns and operates Cartel Urban Cinema and the popular Urban Fiction publishing house, "The Cartel Publications".[3]

Like many novelists within the urban fiction genre, Styles' experienced trials in the streets as a teenager, even doing a stint in jail before she turned her life around and became a bestselling author/publisher.[4] Styles also refers to the literature she creates as Street Fiction, an alternative to the moniker Urban Fiction.[5]

She was born in Washington, D.C. and resides in Baltimore.[6]

Styles' screenplay 'Concrete Beach' reached the semifinalist round of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences', Nicholl Fellowship competition in 2018.[7] In 2019 Styles became a quarterfinalist in Page International Screenwriting competition.[8] In 2019, Styles reached the finals for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Nicholl fellowship competition reaching the top twelve of over 7,300 entries.[9] [10]

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Filmography

References

Tome Rule", Ruth Samuelson, The Washington City Paper, August 29, 2008

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tome Rule: Toy Styles can write a novel in a week. But can she dominate the cutthroat world of street lit? - Washington City Paper. Washington City Paper. 29 August 2008 . 2016-02-18.
  2. Web site: May 2009 Bestsellers Books List. Essence.com. 2016-02-18.
  3. Web site: Urban Fiction/Street Lit/Hip Hop Fiction Resources for Librarians - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. www.libsuccess.org. 2016-02-19.
  4. Web site: Publishers hit the streets. tribunedigital-baltimoresun. 2016-02-20.
  5. Web site: New bookstore brings street literature to the masses. www.gazette.net. 2016-02-20.
  6. Web site: AALBC.
  7. News: 2018. Oscars.org Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2018-09-18. en.
  8. Web site: 2019 Quarter-Finalists PAGE International Screenwriting Awards: Screenplay Contests. pageawards.com. 2019-10-07.
  9. Web site: ACADEMY REVEALS WINNING NICHOLL SCREENWRITERS. 2019-10-04. Oscars.org Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. en. 2019-10-07.
  10. Web site: Nicholl Fellowships: Movie Academy Raises Curtain On Screenwriter Class Of 2019. Pedersen. Erik. 2019-10-04. Deadline. en. 2019-10-07.

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