Meet Our Oscar-Winning Memoir Prize Guest Judge: Nicole Rocklin

For our Spring Memoir Prize, we're in search of revealing and emotional narratives, and that's Nicole’s speciality — from her work on the Oscar-winning film Spotlight to the upcoming HBO Max Lizzo documentary.

You know that feeling when you can just tell you’re connecting with a story you’ll never forget? We tend to get there anytime we come across film and TV producer Nicole Rocklin’s work. We can practically remember the smell of the movie theater we sat in for her genre-defining opus Spotlight, which, no surprise, went on to nab multiple Oscars including Best Picture. So we were downright ecstatic when Nicole agreed to be a Guest Judge for Narratively’s inaugural Spring Memoir Prize. For the Prize, we’re in search of revealing and emotional narratives from overlooked points of view, which is Nicole’s speciality — whether it’s championing unsung heroes like The Boston Globe journalists who uncovered systemic abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, in Spotlight, or getting surprisingly deep with once-in-a-generation icons, like she’s done in her forthcoming Lizzo documentary for HBO Max. And Nicole is thrilled to get exposed to new ideas and voices by Guest-Judging Narratively’s Spring 2022 Me…