NEW YORK, NY [September 29, 2021] -- Latinx in Publishing Inc. (LxP) has selected Ananda Lima as the 2021 Inaugural Work-in-Progress Fellow. Sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, Lima will be paired with Tom Doherty Associates Senior Editor, Ali Fisher to remotely work on Lima’s work-in-progress manuscript for future publication over the course of ten months from October until July 2022.
The judges for the Work-in-Progress Fellowship were Michelle Malonzo of Changing Hands Bookstore, NoNieqa Ramos, author of The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary, and Manuel Gonzales, a teacher at Bennington College and author of The Miniature Wife and Other Stories.
Of Ananda's work-in-progress, Craft, one of our judges stated, “Lima's ear for language is clear. These stories are bizarre, the situations absurd, and I love them. The essence of these stories reminds me of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Friday Black and the gothic Latinx lens of Carribean Fragoza. I think they have great literary potential."
Macmillan Publishers signed on to be the inaugural sponsor of the Publishing Fellowship and Work-in-Progress Fellowship programs designed to help support and create opportunities for aspiring Latinx publishing professionals and writers earlier this year. As part of the Fellowships, LxP will provide regular check-ins with program participants, and networking opportunities for the fellows, and offer a stipend to all participants.
For more details about these programs, including eligibility requirements and any other criteria, please visit www.LatinxinPublishing.com/programs.
About Ananda Lima
Ananda Lima’s (she/her) poetry collection Mother/land was the winner of the 2020 Hudson Prize and is forthcoming in 2021 (Black Lawrence Press). She is also the author of the chapbooks Vigil (Get Fresh Books, forthcoming in 2021), Tropicália (Newfound, 2021, winner of the Newfound Prose Prize), Amblyopia (Bull City Press, 2020), and Translation (Paper Nautilus, 2019, winner of the Vella Chapbook Prize). Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, The Common, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark.
About Ali Fisher
Ali Fisher (she/her) is a Senior Editor at Tom Doherty Associates within Macmillan Publishers where she's been acquiring for their adult, young adult, and middle-grade imprints since 2016. She’s acquired and edited New York Times and USA Today bestselling fiction and nonfiction, primarily science fiction, fantasy, horror, and humor. She's currently based in Brooklyn.
About Latinx in Publishing
Latinx in Publishing Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and a network of book publishing professionals committed to supporting and increasing the number of Latino/a/x in the publishing industry, as well as promoting literature by, for, and about Latino/a/x people. Members include professionals in all facets of publishing and at all career stages. Members benefit from this community through shared resources, support, and mentorship. Latinx in Publishing also hosts networking and author events in NYC and online. Latinx in Publishing members are available for outreach and participation in school career fairs and for partnership with organizations and publishers that seek to promote diversity. For more information visit www.latinxinpublishing.com and follow us on social @latinxpublishing.
About Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world. Macmillan publishes a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats. U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, St. Martin’s Publishing Group, and Tor Books. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, Macmillan publishes under the Pan Macmillan name. The German company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur. Macmillan Publishers is a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large, family-owned media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.
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