The fourth video in the weekly Mighty SONG Writers series, from Philadelphia non-profit Mighty Writers and media platform Literary Hub, comes from Emmy-nominated writer, actor, director, poet, and musician Phil Augusta Jackson.

In his video, Jackson gives advice to young writers and describes the influence of a high school teacher on his own path to becoming a writer across TV, music, and poetry. He also shares an original poem and performs songs from his upcoming EP The Redondo Tape and a Solange cover.

Watch Jackson's video at Literary Hub: https://lithub.com/watch-phil-augusta-jackson-wants-you-to-get-out-of-your-head/

Jackson follows Jewel, Marcus Roberts, and Amanda Shires with Jason Isbell. Read more about the ongoing Mighty SONG Writers video series in a Philadelphia Inquirer feature that ran this past Sunday:

https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/jason-isbell-amanda-shires-mighty-writers-philadelphia-20200808.html

About Phil August Jackson

Phil Augusta Jackson is a writer, actor, director, poet, and musician from Philadelphia now based in LA. A co-executive producer of HBO’s Insecure, Jackson also has written for Key & Peele, Survivor's Remorse, Brooklyn Nine-Nine (also a director and former supervising producer), and more. He has been nominated for Emmy, WGA, and NAACP awards and has self-produced and directed shorts and music videos. He made previous appearances at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival’s New Faces Characters Showcase, and he was the resident poet for The Chris Gethard Show. Jackson’s next release, The Redondo Tape EP, will be out September 4th.

About Mighty Writers

Mighty Writers was founded in 2009 with the mission to teach kids to think clearly and write with clarity. The organization offers free programs for students from elementary through high school at nine centers in diverse neighborhoods around Philadelphia and New Jersey, including several bilingual locations for Spanish-speaking students. Mighty Writers offers daily afterschool academies, long- and short-term writing classes nights and weekends, teen scholar programs, mentorships, College Prep courses and college essay writing classes. Over 400 of the city’s best creative minds (writers, teachers, journalists, etc.) teach 150 writing classes a year to 3,500 kids at Mighty Writers annually.

About Literary Hub

LitHub.com is a daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of contemporary literary life, a website readers can trust for smart, engaged, entertaining writing about all things books.