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In 2010, Empowering Latino Futures, chaired by actor Edward James Olmos, created the Latino Books into Movies Awards for one reason: to help facilitate the production of more television shows and movies by and about Latinos. The contest is judged by film and TV professionals. Empowering Latino Futures also produces the Int’l Latino Book Awards (3,755 authors honored since 1998) and oversees the Int’l Society of Latino Authors. Other programs include the Latino Book & Family Festivals (70 Festivals have been held since 1997); the Latino & American Indian Scholarship Directory (182,000 copies in distribution); and Education Begins in the Home (which has given away over 208,000+ books to underserved youth in just 7 years.  In this sci-fi/fantasy, coming-of-age novel of kinship and high adventure, college-bound Miguel Reilly summers in rural New Mexico to explore its Mexican and Native American ruins and traditions. But when he sets out to “research” shaman Tomás Martinez as an anthropological subject, Tomás turns the tables, and Miguel’s worldview. Miguel takes the legacy of US and Chicano-Mexicano-Native history to heart, but how much can he act counter to his colonial, White-centered outlook? Tomás trains Miguel to battle La Muerte Blanca, a dragon-like being that subsists on human hearts and whose early victims may have included the people of present-day Mexico, leading Miguel there, but not before he gets a few more history lessons, some more personal than expected, from the sardonic-yet-mediating, kind-but-straightforward bartender Julio. While Miguel is new to knowledge of La Muerte Blanca, med student Maritza Magdalena escaped the creature as a teenager and has spent years researching possible attacks and government coverups since. Together, they combat the dragon within Mexico City’s labyrinthine sewers, questioning if there’s one…or more. Maritza brings together expertise from the powerful bruja Blasa, three curanderas who know exactly how to prepare people for otherworldly battle, members of resistance movements, and others. Can Miguel and Maritza both survive descent into cenotes for a final battle? Will Miguel find his true identity and self-worth? And are they running as much from the US and Mexican governments as a supernatural creature?
Learn more from the International Latino Book Awards and Empowering Latino Futures site. Read the full list of 2023 Latino Books into Movies Awards winners here: 
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Sobre el premio Campoy-Ada
El Premio Campoy-Ada, establecido en el 2017 en convocatorias bianuales, tiene por objetivo celebrar la publicación en español de libros para niños y jóvenes publicados en los Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico. Patrocinado por el consorcio entre La Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) y la Universidad de Texas en San Antonio (UTSA), este premio abarca 24 categorías de ficción y no ficción, con temas latino-céntricos y temas universales que faciliten la comprensión multicultural de la sociedad estadounidense. Su nombre celebra a dos pioneras de la literatura bilingüe infantil y juvenil en los Estados Unidos: F. Isabel Campoy y Alma Flor Ada.
Miembros del jurado Premio Campoy-Ada de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua y la Universidad de Texas-San Antonio, incluyen:
• Dr. Claudia Treviño García, Vicepresidenta. San Antonio Area Association for Bilingual Education (SAAABE)
• Dr. Eduardo Lolo, Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española
• Dr. Ana Pallares-Weissling, Profesora Adjunta. Departamento de Educación Bicultural-Bilingüe, UTSA
• Dr. Gerardo Piña-Rosales, Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española
• Dr. Hilda Rodríguez, Educadora en Harlansdale ISD
• Dr. Howard L. Smith, Profesor. Departamento de Educación Bicultural-Bilingüe, UTSA
• Kenya Vargas, Estudiante de Doctorado. Departamento de Educación Bicultural-Bilingüe, UTSA
• Coordinación General: Dra. Patricia Sánchez, Profesora y Directora. Departamento de Educación Bicultural-Bilingüe, UTSA
• Alma Flor Ada, Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española
• F. Isabel Campoy, Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española
Reunido el jurado en su cuarta convocatoria de 2022, y habiendo considerado los méritos lingüísticos y culturales y la calidad literaria y artística de los libros, publicados entre los años 2020 y 2022, sometidos a este premio, dan a conocer a los siguientes ganadores [descargue el siguiente archivo para ver el comunicado de prensa completo/download the file below for the full press release].
El Premio Campoy-Ada, establecido en el 2017 en convocatorias bianuales, tiene por objetivo celebrar la publicación en español de libros para niños y jóvenes publicados en los Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico. Patrocinado por el consorcio entre La Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) y la Universidad de Texas en San Antonio (UTSA), este premio abarca 24 categorías de ficción y no ficción, con temas latino-céntricos y temas universales que faciliten la comprensión multicultural de la sociedad estadounidense. Su nombre celebra a dos pioneras de la literatura bilingüe infantil y juvenil en los Estados Unidos: F. Isabel Campoy y Alma Flor Ada.
Miembros del jurado Premio Campoy-Ada de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua y la Universidad de Texas-San Antonio, incluyen:
• Dr. Claudia Treviño García, Vicepresidenta. San Antonio Area Association for Bilingual Education (SAAABE)
• Dr. Eduardo Lolo, Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española
• Dr. Ana Pallares-Weissling, Profesora Adjunta. Departamento de Educación Bicultural-Bilingüe, UTSA
• Dr. Gerardo Piña-Rosales, Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española
• Dr. Hilda Rodríguez, Educadora en Harlansdale ISD
• Dr. Howard L. Smith, Profesor. Departamento de Educación Bicultural-Bilingüe, UTSA
• Kenya Vargas, Estudiante de Doctorado. Departamento de Educación Bicultural-Bilingüe, UTSA
• Coordinación General: Dra. Patricia Sánchez, Profesora y Directora. Departamento de Educación Bicultural-Bilingüe, UTSA
• Alma Flor Ada, Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española
• F. Isabel Campoy, Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española
Reunido el jurado en su cuarta convocatoria de 2022, y habiendo considerado los méritos lingüísticos y culturales y la calidad literaria y artística de los libros, publicados entre los años 2020 y 2022, sometidos a este premio, dan a conocer a los siguientes ganadores [descargue el siguiente archivo para ver el comunicado de prensa completo/download the file below for the full press release].
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Open call until May 2023
Deadline Extended to
July 2023.
Are you interested in the future?
El Porvenir, ¡Ya! was the award-winning first Chicano sci-fi anthology, but the future for raza is still left for us to imagine!
Chicanofuturism: El Porvenir, ¡Ya! II is accepting fiction set in the future for Chicana/o/x people, nonfiction on thoughts about the future of raza, and digital images of any type that envision how the Chicana/o/x future will look.
Submit unpublished fiction or nonfiction set in the future or about the Chicano future up to 25 pages. Submissions may be any number of pieces up to the 25-page limit.
Submissions may be in English or Spanglish and must be in Times New Roman, double spaced, 12pt, docx format. Digital submissions need to be hires and have an artist bio and photo. Submissions must not have been previously published in print or online magazines (your blog or social media is fine). Please attach an author’s photo titled with your name and a short bio in a separate document. In the email, tell us your background and why you are Chicana/o/x, briefly.
Please title the email "Chicanofuturism Submission” and send to [email protected].
Chicanofuturism: El Porvenir, ¡Ya! II is accepting fiction set in the future for Chicana/o/x people, nonfiction on thoughts about the future of raza, and digital images of any type that envision how the Chicana/o/x future will look.
Submit unpublished fiction or nonfiction set in the future or about the Chicano future up to 25 pages. Submissions may be any number of pieces up to the 25-page limit.
Submissions may be in English or Spanglish and must be in Times New Roman, double spaced, 12pt, docx format. Digital submissions need to be hires and have an artist bio and photo. Submissions must not have been previously published in print or online magazines (your blog or social media is fine). Please attach an author’s photo titled with your name and a short bio in a separate document. In the email, tell us your background and why you are Chicana/o/x, briefly.
Please title the email "Chicanofuturism Submission” and send to [email protected].
“Carmen Baca’s work captures reality, mythology and the mystery of years gone by using vivid language and feeling. One can smell every tree, thunderclouds rolling by, fresh tortillas on the grill, or the balls of fire as brujas approach.”
- Nicolasa Chávez, Deputy State Historian, Author and Curator
- Nicolasa Chávez, Deputy State Historian, Author and Curator
When she opens an old photo album, Bella falls into a world where the gente of New Mexican folklore are on the verge of disappearing if she, her family, and community forget them: Don Cacahuate y Doña Cebolla, Coyote, duendes, Santa Sebastiana/Santa Muerte, the deadly Malhora, Llorona, and Coco, among others. Ancianos of Bella’s family line teach her what no one else has told her about her culture: the practices of the curandera, the forecasting of the weather through Cabañuelas by the farmer, the history of the Spanish dialect spoken in northern New Mexico and almost nowhere else, and more. But will she survive to pass on the tales?
Bella is the youngest in her family, excluded from memories shared between her older siblings and parents, who only ask that she focus on her education. No one asks about Bella the person, Bella the silent observer, never chosen to play with her school peers or invited to parties. She avoids drawing attention to herself, minimizes her presence as much as possible. But could things be different one day? Her first chance to try might be in this alternate realm that resembles her home, but isn’t quite the way she’s ever experienced it.
Bella is the youngest in her family, excluded from memories shared between her older siblings and parents, who only ask that she focus on her education. No one asks about Bella the person, Bella the silent observer, never chosen to play with her school peers or invited to parties. She avoids drawing attention to herself, minimizes her presence as much as possible. But could things be different one day? Her first chance to try might be in this alternate realm that resembles her home, but isn’t quite the way she’s ever experienced it.
CARMEN BACA taught high school and college English for thirty-six years before retiring in 2014. Her debut novel El Hermano, published in April 2017, was a 2018 finalist in the NM-AZ book awards program. Her third book, Cuentos del Cañón, received first place for short story fiction anthology in 2020 from the same program. To date, she has published five books and close to fifty short works in online literary magazines and anthologies.
TO SCHEDULE INTERVIEWS, READINGS, AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact: [email protected]
Contact: [email protected]
ISBN: 9798361693610
Publisher: Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press (November 12, 2022)
Language: English with Spanish mixed in
Paperback: 233 pages
Publisher: Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press (November 12, 2022)
Language: English with Spanish mixed in
Paperback: 233 pages
Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press is a division of the Somos en escrito Literary Foundation, a non-profit tax exempt organization, which also operates Somos en escrito Magazine, an online literary publication (somosenescrito.com).
Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laureate, at the Library of Congress. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Ada Limón, named the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States by the U.S. Library of Congress this past July, assumes her position today, September 29th, with a reading of her work in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library.
The first Mexican American woman to be named to the position, Limón is originally from Sonoma, California, and is the author of several poetry collections. The Carrying, published in 2018 by Milkweed Editions, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
Limón earned an MFA from New York University and is the recipient of various fellowships. Her works have appeared in numerous publications including the New Yorker, Harvard Review, Pleiades, and Barrow Street.
Limón is the host of the acclaimed podcast, “The Slowdown,” and lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
The first Mexican American woman to be named to the position, Limón is originally from Sonoma, California, and is the author of several poetry collections. The Carrying, published in 2018 by Milkweed Editions, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
Limón earned an MFA from New York University and is the recipient of various fellowships. Her works have appeared in numerous publications including the New Yorker, Harvard Review, Pleiades, and Barrow Street.
Limón is the host of the acclaimed podcast, “The Slowdown,” and lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
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