A curated selection of radio and television advertising scripts for national, regional, and local campaigns across diverse industries: wedding, medical, legal, hospitality, and more. Client names redacted per NDA. Written and edited at Write Label,

A Write Label training piece on identifying and eliminating crutch words, verbal tics, and filler from advertising copy. Uses humor and personal anecdote to make the case for tighter self-editing before submission.

A Write Label training piece on crafting sound effects that hit the Goldilocks sweet spot, specific enough for production teams to replicate, abstract enough to leave room for interpretation. Draws on playwriting experience and classroom exercises.

A Write Label training piece on crafting sound effects that hit the Goldilocks sweet spot — specific enough for production teams to replicate, abstract enough to leave room for interpretation. Draws on playwriting experience and classroom exercises.

Published in the James Baldwin Review (Manchester University Press, 2016), this dispatch explores, through memoir and the words of James Baldwin, how a white Southern Baptist queer found rage, recognition, and redemption in Baldwin's enduring truth.

A nonfiction essay about the day a grandfather said the only thing he could say — and in saying it, set his grandson free. A meditation on faith, sexuality, love, and the permissions we spend a lifetime waiting for.

A historical fiction essay portraying Jimmy, a man shaped by abuse, alcoholism, and survival, and Loretta, the mother who once knew exactly how his story would end — and has since forgotten everything, including that she knew.

Editor, Metropolitan Review McDonald visits the 149th St. New York City Subway station, where ibn Kenyatta's arrest began, interrogating his right to tell a Black man's story while honoring Kenyatta's refusal to trade conscience for freedom. pp 34-3