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And the Literary Award Winners are...Latinxs!

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

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5
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Gothic Latinas/Mujeres de Horror: A Reading

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

Photo credit: Willy Somma

Carribean Fragoza is a winner of a Whiting Award in Fiction. Her debut collection Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was a finalist for a PEN Award. Editor at Huizache Magazine and Boom California and founder of South El Monte Arts Posse, she lives in the San Gabriel Valley.
www.carribeanfragoza.com
IG: @fragozacarribean
Twitter: @CarriFragoza

Photo credit: JJ Geiger

Lilliam Rivera is the author of YA novels The Education of Margot Sanchez and Never Look Back. Her latest novels We Light Up the Sky and Unearthed were named “Best Books of 2021” by Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal. A Bronx native, she lives in Los Angeles.
www.lilliamrivera.com
IG: @lilliamr
Twitter: @lilliamr

Photo credit: Julie Leopo

Marytza K. Rubio’s debut story collection Maria, Maria was longlisted for the National Book Award. She lives in Santa Ana and is the Vice President of Community & Culture at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
www.marytzakrubio.com
IG: @marytza_k
photo credit: Julie Leopo

Mary Castillo is the author of Lost in the Light, winner of the 2018 ABR Listener’s Choice Award in Mystery, and a finalist for a Daphne du Maurier Award. Through her creative practice, Reina Omnimedia, Mary narrates and produces audiobooks from her studio in So Cal wine country.
www.marycastillo.com
IG: @marycastillovoiceover
Twitter: @MCastilloWrites

Toni Margarita Plummer is the author of The Bolero of Andi Rowe and a winner of Somos En Escrito’s Extra Fiction Contest. She has work in Aster(ix) and A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories. Toni serves on the board of Latinx in Publishing and hails from South El Monte.
www.tonimargaritaplummer.wordpress.com
IG: @toni_m_plummer
Twitter: @tmargaritaplum

Camille Corbett is a Fulbright Scholar, TV writer, and actress. She wrote, directed, and starred in the short horror film The Island.
www.camillecorbett.com
IG: @thewittygirl
Twitter: @TheWittyGirl

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