Join us Wednesday, May 28, 8-9:15 pm EST for SHORT FICTION, LONG IMPACT: PUBLISHING LATINX STORIES THAT STAY WITH US, a free event for Short Story Month!
What do editors really look for in a short story submission? In honor of Short Story Month, join this behind-the-scenes conversation with Latinx literary journal editors from Acentos Review, Huizache, LatineLit, and Latino Book Review discussing how they curate issues, champion emerging talent, and shape platforms that center Latinx brilliance in short form. The event will conclude with a short Q&A.
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Carribean Fragoza is a fiction and nonfiction writer from South El Monte, CA. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was a finalist for a 2022 PEN Award. She has edited two compilations of essays, Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California and East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte. She has published in Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, Zyzzyva, Alta, BOMB, Huizache, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtNews, and Aperture Magazine. She is the Prose Editor at Huizache. Fragoza is the founder and co-director of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective. She is a 2023 Whiting Literary Award recipient and on the Creative Writing faculty at California Institute of the Arts.
Raina J. León, PhD is Black, Afro-Boricua, and from Philadelphia (Lenni Lenape ancestral lands). She is a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, Cave Canem, CantoMundo, and Macondo. She is the author of black god mother this body, Canticle of Idols, and Boogeyman Dawn. A founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online quarterly, international journal, she recently retired as a full professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California and currently supports writers at the Stonecoast MFA at the University of Southern Maine. She is additionally a digital archivist, emerging visual artist, writing coach, and curriculum developer.
Rossy Evelin Lima, PhD is a writer, scholar, and translator. She has published three poetry collections and two children's books. She is the founder of Jade Publishing, and the Executive Director of Latino Book Review. Dr, Lima has shared her experience as an undocumented writer in the U.S. in order to create awareness and empathy, including a TEDx presentation, and a documentary broadcasted nationally on PBS in the iNation Media series titled Waking Dream. She has won an International Latino Book Award and the National Gabriela Mistral Award, among many other accolades.
Russ López is an author, editor, and publisher. The founder and editor of LatineLit, he has authored six books with a seventh, Provincetown Stories, due out early next year. His work has appeared in venues ranging from Somos en Escrito to the Journal of the American Medical Association. Originally from California, he divides his time between Boston and Provincetown.
Richie Narvaez is the award-winning author of two novels, Hipster Death Rattle and Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco, as well as two short story collections, Roachkiller & Other Stories and most recently Noiryorican. His writing, which includes more than eighty published short stories, centers on Nuyorican and Latinx experiences, using multiple genres, including crime fiction, horror, literary, and speculative fiction. A recipient of a Letras Boricuas Fellowship, he teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
