Meet Poet Astrid | Author, Poet, & Writer
FROM: Shoutout LA
We had the good fortune of connecting with Poet Astrid and we’ve shared our conversation below.
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The Body Horror of Being a Woman
Carribean Fragoza’s domestic surrealist stories in Eat the Mouth That Feeds You are about Chicanas navigating the grotesque and the mundane
By Leticia Urieta
FROM: Electric Literature
Speculative, surreal stories can be doorways to imagine both what is possible and the effects of trauma and change on the most vulnerable people. Speculative storytelling is expansive, incorporating horror, science fiction, and surrealism to help readers tackle what we are most unwilling to see, highlighting how systemic oppression can break open and create new realities.
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A Decade of Women Who Submit
By Thea Prieto
FROM: Poets & Writers
For the past decade an international community of women and nonbinary writers have been working to claim space for themselves in an industry historically dominated by men. Known as Women Who Submit (WWS), the group supports and empowers its members to submit their work in spite of publishing’s inequities. Their achievements have been extraordinary: This July, the organization celebrates its tenth year, with twenty-seven chapters across the United States and Mexico, more than one hundred fifty successful book and magazine publication credits by its members in 2020, and a devoted community of writers, editors, and publishers.
Continue reading “A Decade of Women Who Submit”In Her Debut Poetry Collection, Anatalia Vallez Explores Her Roots As A Latina Writer In O.C.
By Ada Tseng
FROM: LA Times OC
The first poem in Anatalia Vallez’s “the most spectacular mistake” is called “bond,” and it’s about honoring the generations of Mexican women who came before her.
How Riverside Author Susan Straight Enbraced Family History For Latest Book
By Candice Yacono
FROM: Orange County Register
On any given day, you might find Susan Straight walking along the Santa Ana River or throwing darts at the local Elks lodge.
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Book Review: All That Wasted Fruit by Arminé Iknadossian
By Alexandra Umlas
FROM: Cultural Weekly
Arminé Iknadossian’s mother would gather olives from the trees that grew just outside of her daughter’s high school; she couldn’t imagine all of that wonderful fruit going to waste. Iknadossian has not written a poem for this image she remembers all of these years later, but perhaps all of the poems in her first collection of poetry are, in a way, an homage to her mother’s incessant olive gathering.
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Endeavor: An Interview with Cynthia Guardado
An interview with Fullerton College Professor and Poet, Cynthia Guardado. She discusses her book “Endevor,” a book about the experiences of women of color in America. Continue reading Endeavor: An Interview with Cynthia Guardado
Three L.A. Poets Get Accepted to VONA/Voices
By Brian Dunlap
Earlier this week three L.A. poets, Irene Monica Sanchez, Angelina Sáenz and T. Sarmina got accepted into the prestigious VONA/Voices of Our Nation summer workshop at Realm Academy in Berkeley. The workshop is for emerging poets and prose writers-of-Color.
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Application Period Open For Jack Jones Literary Arts’ Second Annual Writing Retreat
From: Jack Jones Literary Arts
Jack Jones Literary Arts, located in Los Ángeles, is hosting its second annual writing retreat at Blue Sky Retreat, Taos, New Mexico. This two-week retreat will be held October 13- 27, 2018, and is open exclusively to women of color. Jenna Wortham joins us as our 2018 Writer-in-Residence.
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