About Madeleine Hall
Madeleine Hall is an alum of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program. She worked as a professional singer in the New England area for many years before finding her way to Grub Street. She is currently seeking representation for her first novel, an anti-Lolita tale that explores themes of consent, family separation, and what it means to heal from the wounds of childhood sexual abuse.
Shi Naseer’s debut novel, The Cry of the Silkworm, is a spellbinding coming-of-age and revenge story about a young woman grappling with the trauma and loss she endured growing up under China’s one-child policy, in a small rural village where…
The Color Purple, Bastard out of Carolina, and Speak: three nationally acclaimed novels depicting sexual abuse that have repeatedly been banned throughout the years as “obscene.” For as long as any of us can remember, the subject of sexual abuse…
