This forthcoming multi-genre and multi-generational creative writing anthology will illuminate both the enduring and the new Xicana identity, presence and culture. 

In moving and powerful poetry, memoir pieces, short stories, personal essays and vignettes, Somos Xicanas will reveal and explore the diverse ways Xicana identity impacts lifestyle, values, principles, political stances, education, anti-colonialism resistance, brown female empowerment, spirituality, relationships to ancestral knowledge, motherhood, future generations, indigenous activism, La Lucha movement, art, etc. 
 
From Cholas to Madrinas, first generation immigrants to barrio natives, “no sabo kids” to Spanglish speakers, copal-burning-temachtianis to brown-beret-wearers, etc. this book will represent a wide range of voices eager and passionate about continuing the complex and evolving, resilient Xicana narrative.
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In November 2021, Somos en escrito will observe the 50th year of the publication of Chicano Manifesto, authored by the founder and editor of Somos en Escrito Magazine, with the second reprint of the seminal classic on Chicanismo.

We invite persons who read the book when it was released by Macmillan Company in 1971 and in the following years and decades to recount the impact of the book on themselves, what they learned from the book that guided them through the years, and a word about the importance of preserving Mexican American history and culture for future generations.

Email your comments to [email protected]. Commentaries will be published in a special feature in the magazine upon publication of the reprint.

​The Editorial Staff of Somos en escrito Magazine

Like awoken crypt fiends and stasis cocoon astronauts, we all this year have emerged into the black of night or the warmth of the sunlit alien world once more. The Extra Fiction Contest is Emerging, our intention, our theme. While submissions may be of any Speculative, Slipstream, Magic Realism, Fantasy, Science Fiction, or Horror theme, we are keeping a few of our extra eyestalks out for anything EMERGING.

Contest submission is free and is open for any Indigenous-Hispanic person from or residing in the USA (of American Indian, Chicano/Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, Central American, South American origin). 

Manuscripts must be unpublished, in English, Spanish, or Ingléspañol. Put “2021 Extra-Fiction Contest” in the email subject line. Email Word format (.docx) unpublished submissions with short bio in third person and author’s photo to [email protected]. One submission per author, 6,000 word limit, contact us beforehand if the submission is over 6,000 words. Submission is free. 
​Deadline is September 30, 2021.
Science-fiction stories published in Somos en escrito during the year are considered for the contest.

Judging the finalists is Ernest Hogan, godfather of Chicano Science-Fiction and author of Cortez on Jupiter, High Aztech, and Smoking Mirror Blues.

Prizes:
1st place: $100 and a copy of Porvenir Ya!, Chicano Sci-fi Anthology (upcoming 2021)
2nd place: Copy of Porvenir Ya!
3rd place: Copy of Porvenir Ya!
Two Honorary Mentions.
All Finalists will have their stories published online in Somos en escrito Literary Magazine.