WarnerMedia announced the finalists in their inaugural WarnerMedia Access Writers Program, which aims to amplify underrepresented voices. The program, formerly known as HBO Access, begins in July and last seven months.

The program selected 21 participants who will learn about the television business from internal executives, attend master classes on storytelling and collaborative creative writing with showrunners.

The selected writers are:

Allyssa Lee

Annie Nishida

Craig T. Williams (NY)

Eric Anthony Glover (NY)

Eunice Park

Gabriel Vallejo

Irving Ruan

Kareem Fahmy (NY)

Koby Agyeman

Larry Caldwell

Lenny Len & Etan Manasse-Piha

Lisa Sanaye Dring

Malia Dawkins Jennings

Malloy Moseley

Meredith Garcia-Painter

Richard Nguyen & Vinita Mehta

R.B. Ripley

Sam Oh

Stephen Crooms

Victoria González

Yasmin Almanaseer