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2021 Extra Fiction Results!

10/31/2021

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This year's Extra Fiction contest was very close, we had many great submissions. 
The judge Ernest Hogan has chosen the winners from the five finalists:

1st place:
"Attack of Las Quetas" by 
Toni Margarita Plummer 

2nd place:
"Beast of Cabo Rojo" by 
Arnaldo Lopez Jr. 

3rd place:
"Sacred Evolution" by Carmen Baca

Honorary Mentions:
"la guadaña amorosa" by Samir Sirk Morató
"I Migrated to the US to Escape a Demon" by Javier Loustaunau


Thanks to everyone who submitted and to those who shared the announcement. The editors and judge loved reading these stories and hope to encourage all to write and submit their stories, extra fiction or otherwise. 

Stay tuned for the publication of the finalist stories here on Somos en escrito. 

…and happy Halloween from Somos en escrito.
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Extra Fiction Contest 2020

8/18/2020

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IN THE YEAR OF COVID, ALL IS BEYOND REALITY

​Deadline: October 17, 2020
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At a time when weird, abnormal, spacey, bizarre, creepy become everyday words to describe the world, writers are even more challenged to tell a really far-out story. In this extra bizarro realdom, the Somos en escrito Extra-Fiction Contest challenges all submitters to go the extra step.

BEYOND THE USUAL

Any unpublished fiction that conveys this extra element is eligible. That means any genre, Spec-Lit, Horror, Sci-fi, Experimental, Magic Realism, Fantasy, Abstract, Slipstream, etc. We seek manuscripts from writers of Indigenous, Mexican, Chicano, Puerto Rican, other Caribbean, Central or South American origin born or living in the U.S.
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Our judge is Ernest Hogan, Father of Chicano Sci-fi and author of Cortez on Jupiter, High Aztech, and Smoking Mirror Blues. 

PRIZES

First prize is $100.
Second and Third Place and two honorary finalists will earn publication and will receive a book donated to Somos en escrito from noted Latino authors.

PREVIOUS WINNERS

2019
First Place
"El Parbulito" by Gloria Delgado
Second Place
"A Story of the Fourth Crusade" by Rosa Martha Villarreal
Third Place
Excerpt from 
When Corn People Wage War by Tania Romero

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​​2018
(read them here)
First Place
​“Fatherly, dragonly, motherly . . . love, luck and touch” Rudy Ch. García
Second Place
“The Archivist” Ricardo Tavarez

​Third Place
"Sessions In Augmented Reality"
 Nicholas Belardes ​

TO SUBMIT

Email to somossubmissions@gmail.com with “Extra-Fiction 2020” in the Subject Box.

Please format manuscripts in Word format, as .docx or .doc attachments, single-spaced and in 12-point Times New Roman font. Place your name and email address in the upper left hand corner of the first page, and submit a short bio including ethnic background along with an author’s photo in .jpeg format.

We look forward to an even more exciting contest than the previous two years. Good luck to all writers.

—The Editors of Somos en escrito Magazine
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International Latino Book Awards 2020

8/14/2020

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Congratulations to Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press ILBA finalists Armando A. Arias and Ernesto Todd Mireles! 

​Somos en escrito is pleased that the first two books from our press are ILBA finalists! Theorizing César Chávez is a finalist in the category "Victor Villaseñor Latino Focused Nonfiction Book – English" and Insurgent Aztlán is a finalist in the category "Best Political/Current Affairs Book – English." 

Congratulations to other finalists who have appeared in Somos en escrito, Alvaro Huerta, Eduardo Cabrera, Sergio Troncoso, and Juan Alvarado Valdivia.

​See more at the 
International Latino Book Awards site.
Click here for the full list of finalists.

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Insurgent Aztlán The Liberating Power of Cultural Resistance reconstructs the relationship between social political insurgent theory and Xicano literature, film and myth. Based on decades of organizing experience and scholarly review of the writings of recognized observers and leaders of the process of national liberation movements, author Ernesto Todd Mireles shares a remarkable work of scholarship that incorporates not only the essence of earlier resistance writing, but provides a new paradigm of liberation guidelines for the particular situation of Mexican Americans.

Learn more and get a copy here.

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Theorizing César Chávez: New Ways of Knowing STEM presents a new paradigm for examining and analyzing science through an understanding of César Chávez’s values and beliefs, theorizing the application of his innovative thinking to STEM, particularly to address its state in U.S. education today. Author Armando A. Arias ("Dr. Sonny Boy") forges connections between the arts, humanities, social and behavioral and hard sciences, using science friction, including his own visionary travails, to create a presence in the absence of César Chávez. 

​Learn more and get a copy here.

Congratulations to ILBA finalists who have appeared in Somos en escrito!


Best Latino Focused Fiction Book – English or Bilingual


Cabañuelas: A novel, Norma Elia Cantú; University of New Mexico Press; Mexico/Xicana; San Antonio, TX
Click here to read an excerpt of Cabañuelas. 


Best Play or Collection of Plays

Teatro de inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos, Eduardo Cabrera; Argentina; Chicago
Click here to read an excerpt of another book by Eduardo Carbrera.



Best Collection of Short Stories – English or Bilingual

A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son, Sergio Troncoso; Cinco Puntos Press; U.S. Mexican American; New York

Ballad of a Slopsucker: Stories, Juan Alvarado Valdivia; University of New Mexico Press; Mexico/Peruano; San Francisco
Click here to read an excerpt of Ballad of a Slopsucker.


Best Political/Current Affairs Book – English
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Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities, Alvaro Huerta, Hamilton Books; Lanham
Click here to read an excerpt of Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities.
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Extra Fiction 2019 Winners

10/31/2019

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The Results are in!

We had many great entries and loved reading and discussing them all.  Thanks to the judge, Ernest Hogan, mutante recombo latinoid father of Chicano Sci-fi and author of Smoking Mirror Blues and High Aztech. 

The winner receives $100 and all finalists receive a signed book by Ernest Hogan.  The Writer of Promise receives feedback and mentoring from Rudy Ch. Garcia, winner of the Extra Fiction contest in 2018 and author of
The Closet of Discarded Dreams. Stay tuned for the winners' stories on Somos en escrito. 
First:
"El Parbulito" by Gloria Delgado

Second:
"A Story of the Fourth Crusade" by Rosa Martha Villarreal

Third:
Excerpt from When Corn People Wage War by Tania Romero

Honorable Mentions:
"My Many Faces" by Venetia Sjogren
"Nous Somme dans" by David Vela

Writer of Promise: "Dear Santa of the South Pole" by Gerard Martinez

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EXTRA, EXTRA! FICTION!

7/13/2019

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Somos en escrito Magazine
Announces 
2nd annual
Extra-Fiction Contest 
Do you think your story is too far out for any magazine to accept? Did you submit a yarn that was rejected because it was beyond fiction? Not too far out for us! 

We've even started a contest!

​​Calling all writers in any genre going beyond the norm, who reflect the wide range of science fiction, fantasy, horror, spec-lit, or just weird—in other words, extra-fiction.
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DEADLINE

​The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2019. Winners will be announced on October 31st (Halloween).

PRIZES

​First Prize is $100 and publication in Somos en escrito Magazine.

​Second, third, and two honorary mentions will earn publication.

All winners will receive a signed book by our judge, Ernest Hogan, the father of Chicano Sci-fi in his second straight assignment as judge.

A non-finalist will be selected as a writer of promise to receive feedback and mentoring from last year’s winner, Rudy Ch. Garcia.

RULES

Writings must be by Americans of indigenous-hispanic background (Native American, Chicanan, Latina/o/x) born in the USA or from Latin America residing in the USA. Excerpts from novels in progress may also be submitted.

Manuscripts must be unpublished, in English, Spanish, or Ingléspañol. Put “Extra-Fiction Contest 2019” in the email subject line. One submission per author, 6,000 word limit. Provide author name and contact details in the email, and title of submitted piece; no identification on the manuscript.

​SUBMISSION IS FREE.
​Submit to somossubmissions@gmail.com. 12 pt Times New Roman, double spaced, indentations at .5 inch. Include bio and photograph (jpg format, min 900 dpi).

​The Judge ​

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Ernest Hogan was born in East L.A. His mother’s name was Garcia. He grew up in West Covina, which he considered one of the most boring places in California. Monster movies, comic books, and science fiction, he says, saved his life. The author of High Aztech, Smoking Mirror Blues, and Cortez on Jupiter, his short fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, Analog, Science Fiction Age, Somos en escrito, and many other publications. Recently discovered by academia, his “Chicanonautica Manifesto” appeared in Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies. He blogs at mondoernesto.com.

​Spread the word with other far-out writers. 

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Extra-Fiction Contest Winners for 2018!

10/31/2018

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The Extra-Fiction Contest Winners for 2018!
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​Somos en escrito Magazine is proud to announce today, Halloween 2018, the winners of the first annual Extra-Fiction Writing Contest. The contest is open to all aspiring and established escritores to compete for recognition of their talents as writers of extra fiction, works that go beyond the standard notion of fiction to awe, terrify, challenge reality and force us to look around corners before we get there.

We welcome submissions of ex-fi works throughout the year, so new writers, hone your skills. All writers of Latinidad with a bent toward ex-fi, that extra dimension beyond reality, can look to Somos en escrito as the magazine most welcoming of the kind of writing you like, ex-fi with a Latin twist.

To keep everyone involved, we also plan next Halloween to name the best ex-fi work submitted during the year, with two runners-up.

The envelope please:

First Place Winner:
“Fatherly, dragonly, motherly . . . love, luck and touch”
Rudy Ch. García of Denver, Colorado, co-founder of and dedicated contributor to La Bloga, is perhaps best known for his alternate reality/fantasy novel, The Closet of Discarded Dreams, which was a finalist in the International Latino Book Awards’ Fantasy/Sci-Fi category in 2013. He has been a longtime proponent of extra-fiction.

Second Place:
“The Archivist”
Ricardo Tavarez, who hails from Watsonville, California, and now lives in Oakland, has an MFA from San Francisco State. He is part of La Brigada, a collective that organizes the International SF Flor Y Canto Literary Festival. His writing has appeared most recently in the anthologies, "Poetry in Flight : Poesia en Vuelo” and “The City is Already Speaking,” the City being San Francisco.

Third Place:

"Sessions In Augmented Reality"
Chicano writer Nicholas Belardes has appeared or is forthcoming in Latinx Archive: Speculative Fiction For Dreamers, Afterlives of the Writers, Acentos Review, Carve Magazine and others. He teaches for the Online MFA Creative Writing Program at Southern New Hampshire University. Nick lives in San Luis Obispo, California.

The First Place winner receives $100 and all three top finalists will get a copy of an original, first edition of Smoking Mirror Blues (2001), autographed by the author, Ernest Hogan, considered by all who care for the genre as the Godfather of Chicano ex-fi, who was the judge for this first competition.


Look for the winning short stories this November 2, Día de los Muertos, on this same batchannel.

Finalists:
“La Muñeca"
Carmen Baca, a long-time teacher in northern New Mexico where she lives, published her first novel in May 2017, El Hermano, a historical fiction based on her  father’s induction into the Penitente society and rise to El Hermano Mayor.

"Death Eye Dog"
Michelle Robles Wallace has an MFA from Mills College in Oakland and was a recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist’s Grant. In recent years, she ran the Kaleidoscope Reading Series and The Borderlands Lectura series.

Congratulations to the winners and our heart-felt encouragement to others who submitted their work.



—The Editor
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Extra-fiction Contest Reminder

9/14/2018

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First Annual Somos en escrito
Extra-Fiction Writing Contest 2018
Two Weeks Left to Submit!
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Somos en escrito, The Latino Literary Online Magazine, is hosting the first annual Somos en escrito Extra-Fiction Writing Contest. First prize is $100 and publication, second and third prize earn publication, and all winners receive a copy of a signed book by our judge, the father of Chicano Sci-fi, Ernest Hogan.

The deadline is September 30, 2018 and winners will be announced on October 31st (Halloween).

Writings must be by Americans of indigenous/hispanic background (Native American, Chicano, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban and other Latin American origin) born in the USA or from Latin America residing in the USA.

Manuscripts must be unpublished, in English, Spanish, or Spanglish and in any genre reflecting the range of science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, horror, in other words, extra-fiction. (Excerpts from novels in progress may also be submitted.) Put “Extra-Fiction Contest 2018” in the email subject line. One submission per author, 6,000 word limit. SUBMISSION IS FREE.

Submit text to somossubmissions@gmail.com.
12 point Times New Roman, double spaced, indentations at .5 inch. Include bio and photograph (jpg format, min 300 dpi).

The Judge:

Ernest Hogan, considered the Father of Chicano Science Fiction, has said that “Chicano is a science fiction state of being.” The Extra-Fiction Contest seeks the native/latino fantastic or the fantastic native/latino: brujas, rocket ranflas, vampiros under your bed, what Cucuy knows, mythologies you may chant to yourself, or robo abuelita time machines. It is thematically open season on mutantes and/or human beings.

A six-foot tall Aztec leprechaun, Hogan was born in East L.A. His mother’s name was Garcia, and his parents weren’t aware of Ernest Hogan, the Father of Ragtime. He grew up in West Covina, which he considered one of the most boring places in California. Monster movies, comic books, and science fiction, he says, saved his life. The author of High Aztech, Smoking Mirror Blues, and Cortez on Jupiter, his short fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, Analog, Science Fiction Age, and many other publications. Recently discovered by academia, his “Chicanonautica Manifesto” appeared in Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies. He blogs at mondoernesto.com and labloga.blogspot.com.

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