Stories shape power.
we build the stories.
Bear Witness.
HEATDRAWN Media produces original reporting and narrative projects across publishing, audio, screen and digital — building a catalog of work designed to outlast the news cycle and make culture impossible to ignore.
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INHERITANCE
A magazine about race, culture, money, power, and what gets passed down.
REPUTATION
Award-winning limited series podcast on homelessness, housing policy, and who gets remembered.
THE THREAD
AI-powered narrative experiment exploring obituary data and legacy.
current & DEVElOping properties
HEATDRAWN's catalog spans live publications, books in development, and emerging screen and audio projects — all connected by an interest in identity, belonging, and how systems shape ordinary life.
picture book series - ages 4-8
IN DEVELOPMENT
A small being traverses a fingerprint landscape in the first of a five-book series exploring self-recognition, empathy, and belonging. Currently in agent submission.
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YA SCIENCE FICTION - NOVEL
IN DEVELOPMENT
When fifteen-year-old JR inherits his grandmother's pendant, he discovers he can witness her past—but using it threatens to unravel the very timeline she died protecting.Planned for publication through HEATDRAWN's imprint.
Audio & Screen
PODCAST — DOCUMENTARY — ADAPTATION
Active development across audio documentary, narrative podcast, and screen adaptation pipelines — including properties drawn from the existing HEATDRAWN catalog.
collaborate
We’re selective about partners. Open to the right ones.
HEATDRAWN works with publishers, agents, producers, and mission-aligned organizations building at the intersection of narrative and accountability. Every project we take on reinforces the others, building a catalog of intellectual property that compounds over time.
Publishers & Agents
Manuscript submissions, series proposals, and co-publishing conversations for current and developing catalog properties.
Producers & Platforms
Adaptation inquiries, audio distribution partnerships, and screen development discussions for HEATDRAWN IP.
Organizations & Institutions
Narrative partnerships, content licensing, and strategic storytelling engagements with nonprofits, newsrooms, and policy organizations.
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why we eXIST
The stories that change how people think don’t happen by accident.
HEATDRAWN was founded in 2020 with a premise: that independent narrative work — the kind that asks harder questions and waits longer for answers — deserves the same infrastructure that commercial media takes for granted. We operate at the intersection of culture, technology, and power.