Join us for a chat as we celebrate 10 years of Latinx in Publishing. We'll chat with changemakers and trendsetters -- authors, editors, agents and industry professionals -- on how far Latinx people have come in the publishing industry and how much more we need to go.

Join us on Thursday, January 25th, at 8 p.m. ET for a live reading with our 2023 Writers Mentorship Program!

Our mentees will read excerpts from the projects they have worked on in the duration of the mentorship — don’t miss out! Stream via Facebook Live.

For a look at our 2023 mentors and mentees, visit here.

Join Latinx In Publishing
for a virtual happy hour!
December 21, 2023
6:00 pm ET
RSVP here to register

And the Literary Award Winners are...Latinxs! 

2023 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event

Join Latinx in Publishing as our panelists discuss how Latinx authors may be underrepresented in publishing, but they are slowly and surely growing in numbers and winning major literary awards. 

PANELISTS
Authors Andrea Beatriz Arango; Angie Cruz; Juana Martinez-Neal; Alex Segura; and Jose Olivarez

Thursday, September 28, 7pm ET, via zoom

Join Latinx in Publishing for a reading of horror and Gothic stories by 5 Latina authors who explore themes of family, love, grief, violence, brujería, patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism. These critically-acclaimed authors are innovating the genre and moving beyond it to show how we deal with death, as Latinas.

Featuring Carribean Fragoza, Lilliam Rivera, Marytza K. Rubio,
Mary Castillo, and Toni Margarita Plummer

Hosted by Camille Corbett

Matilija Lending Library
3571 Lexington Avenue
El Monte, CA 91731
August 5, 2023
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
FREE EVENT

This event is organized by the Latino Arts Network, Women Who Submit, and Alternative Field and supported in part by the California Arts Council.

REGISTER FOR THE LATINA WRITERS CONFERENCE HERE

Join Las Comadres Para Las Americas and Latinx in Publishing in Celebrating our Afro Latina Identity, Heritage and Culture during Black History Month!

Our panelists include amazing Afro Latinas in Academia, Literature, Poetry, Art and Culture.

Date:                  Thursday, February 16, 8pm ET

Time:                 8:00pm for panel LIVE!

Location:          Zoom (Virtual)

Register HERE to receive the zoom link for Thursday, February 16, 8pm ET.

(If the link doesn’t work, email us at info@lascomadres.com.)

PANELIST

Carmen Bardeguez-Brown is a poet, a writer, a teacher, a traveler.  Carmen was a teacher and principal with the New York City Board of Education, as well as Co-Founder and Former High School Principal of School for Excellence Education of Morris Campus Educational Farm Inc. She is the author of FOR THE LOVE OF COOKING: CHEF TAO, A MEMOIR, and her poetry has appeared in several anthologies including ¡MANTECA! An Anthology of Afro-Latino Poets. In 2019, Carmen was vacationing in Thailand when the COVID pandemic prevented her from returning home, she decided to settle in and work on her writing. She still is.  Learn more about Carmen at https://cbbpoetry.wordpress.com/.

Raesha Cartagena is President of PRIDA, the Puerto Rican Institute for the Development of the Arts. Their mission is to promote and provide support for Puerto Rican artists.  Raesha is also a Public Relations Specialist at FortuneTimes Group.  Visit PRIDA at www.prida.org.

Jackie Melendez (Moderator) is the New Jersey Comadres Network Co-Facilitator, and Social Media Specialist for Las Comadres Para Las Americas. Visit Las Comadres at www.lascomadres.com.

Ivelisse Rodriguez’ debut short story collection, LOVE WAR STORIES, was a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES Finalist. Ivelisse is a contributing arts editor for the Boston Review, where she acquires fiction. She is a 2022 Letras Boricuas Fellow, a Tanne Foundation award winner, a Kimbilio Fellow, and a VONA/ Voices alum.  Learn more about her at www.ivelisserodriguez.com.

Jennese Alicia Torres, Esq., is a New York licensed attorney, admitted to the US Supreme Court, and graduate of Howard University School of Law. She is also an author, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, mentor, community organizer, and mother. Her semi-autobiographical children's books began with her memoir, I AM MY GRANDMOTHER’S DAUGHTER.  She is also known as La Diva Latina on social media.  Learn more about Jennese at http://LaDivaLatina.com/ and follow her on Facebook @Ladivalatina.

We’re celebrating Latinx Heritage Month with Annette Chaves Macias, author of BIG CHICAS DON’T CRY (Montlake).

This is Annette’s first women’s fiction novel after writing numerous romances under the pen name of Sabrina Sol.  BIG CHICAS DON’T CRY is not a romance.  Everyone does not get a happy ending, but readers come away with a happy feeling of being en familia.  Erica, Mari, Gracie and Selena are cousins and the heroines of the novel. They were all BFFs as children, but divorce happens and life moves them in different directions. Now the cousins are back together. It’s an awkward reunion but family is family.  Readers will laugh and cry and rejoice as the cousins come together again and get each other through the hardest of times.  

This is an official Brooklyn Book Festival BookEnd Event sponsored by Latinx in Publishing.

Join us for this year’s BookEnd event where four debut authors discuss why it's important for Latinxs to tell their own stories and how they broke barriers to be published!

Date:                  Thursday, September 29

Time:                 7:00pm for panel LIVE!

Location:           El Barrio’s ArtSpace PS 109, 215 East 99 Street, NYC

Refreshments:   sponsored by PRIDA

Directions:        Nearest trains are the 4,6,Q to 96 Street, Manhattan.  

Registration link: CLICK HERE

Panelists:

Elvira K. Gonzalez, Hurdles in the Dark, MacMillan

Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio, Harper Collins

Cleyvis Natera, Neruda on the Park, Ballantine Books

Vincent Tirado, Burn Down, Rise Up, Sourcebooks Fire

Moderator: Patricia Gonzalez, Latinx in Publishing

A RARE TEAM: What Publishing a Novel Looks Like When the Author, Agent, Editor, and Marketing Assistant Are All Latina

We've heard for years that publishing is dominated by both white authors and white publishing professionals. So what happens when the author, agent, editor, and marketing assistant are all Latina? Meet author Margo Candela, agent Adrienne Rosado, editor Toni Kirkpatrick, and marketing/subrights assistant Dulce Botello who all worked to publish THE NEAPOLITAN SISTERS, the first novel by a Latina on Alcove Press' list of book club fiction. Hear them talk about how being Latina informs their work, why representation matters, and how to launch a book Latina-style!

Date:                  Thursday, August 18, 2022

Time:                 7:00pm ET for panel LIVE!

Registration link:  CLICK HERE

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Join us on November 18, 2020 for a live reading on Facebook featuring our 2020 Writers Mentors & Mentees!

Thursday, October 1, 2020
4 pm PT / 7 pm ET

Join Latinx in Publishing’s Zakiya Jamal as she leads a dynamic conversation with five acclaimed writers across all genres to discuss their process, the future, and how, in their writing they have broken free or reshaped the various Latinx stereotypes portrayed in media. Authors include:

Veronica Chambers - Shirley Chisholm is a Verb! ;
Roy G. Guzman - Catrachos ;
Roberto Lovato - Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas ;
Juli Delgado Lopera - Fiebre Tropical : A Novel ;
& Claribel Ortega - Ghost Squad

Hosted by Mil Mundos Books & Latinx in Publishing.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jc9lgReyQkSjSrtuJpb0_Q

Order books from Mil Mundos here: https://www.milmundosbooks.com/tellingourownstories

Hello, Latinx publishing and publishing-adjacent professionals! Join us for a Latinx Heritage Month celebration!

We’ll be hosting a Publishing Industry Professional Happy Hour to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month, on Tuesday, September 29th at 4 PM PST / 7 PM EST. RSVP below and we’ll send you a direct link for the virtual event!

Feel free to bring your beverage of choice and book recommendations for the group.

We look forward to seeing you all there. :)

All best,

Latinx in Publishing

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Please note: This event is for Latinx publishing professionals, and professionals working for publishing-adjacent organizations, only. We’re open to including other BIPOC publishing professionals if there’s interest!

Join us for our Three King’s Day celebration on Monday, January 6 at 7PM. Please RSVP for your ticket here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/three-kings-celebration-tickets-83714802227