Toni Ann Johnson in The Black Writer's Studio
Toni Ann Johnson is the winner of the 2021 Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction, with her linked collection Light Skin Gone to Waste, selected by Roxane Gay.
Johnson’s novella Homegoing was a semi-finalist for the William Faulkner Wisdom Award in fiction. It won Accents Publishing’s inaugural novella contest in 2020 and was released in May of 2021. The novel Remedy For a Broken Angel was released in 2014 and earned Johnson a 2015 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author.
In 1998 Johnson won the Christopher Award and the Humanitas Prize for her Disney screenplay “Ruby Bridges,” and in 2004 she won a second Humanitas Prize for her Showtime screenplay “Crown Heights”.
In 2000, Johnson wrote the Lifetime movie “The Courage to Love,” starring Vanessa L. Williams, based on the life of Henriette Delille, a free woman of color in mid-19th Century New Orleans, who became one of the first nuns of African descent. In 2002, she wrote the television pilot “Save The Last Dance,” produced for Fox Television and based on the hit feature film, on which she was a participating writer. Johnson also co-wrote the 2008 feature, “Step Up 2: The Streets,” the second installment of the international Step Up franchise.
Johnson holds a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She’s an alumna of the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab and the Prague Summer Program For Writers. She was a 2021 Hurston/Wright Foundation Writers Week Fellow, a 2016 Callaloo Writer’s Workshop Fellow, and in 2018, a participant in the One Story Summer Conference.
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