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The Latino Literary Online Magazine

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First All-Chicano Sci-fi Anthology Released!

2/1/2022

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Chicanofuturism is now!

The title sums up the underlying roots of this collection; it takes Spanish, Nahuatl and English to tell the whole tale. This collection is a coming out party for raza re-interpreters of the past, the now and the future.

The line-up of authors includes:
Ernest Hogan, Mario Acevedo, Frank S. Lechuga, Martin Hill Ortiz, Pedro Iniguez, Nicholas Belardes, Armando Rendón, Lizz Huerta, Emmanuel Valtierra, Rios de La Luz, Beatrice Pita, Rosaura Sánchez, R. Ch. Garcia, Ricardo Tavarez, Rosa Martha Villarreal, Carmen Baca, Scott Russell Duncan, Gloria Delgado, and Kathleen Alcalá.

TO SCHEDULE INTERVIEWS, READINGS, MORE INFORMATION
Contact: editors@somosenescrito.com

Listen to a discussion of El Porvenir, ¡Ya! featuring top writers from the collection on the Reality Dysfunction podcast.

El Porvenir, ¡Ya! is available in paperback and e-book formats through online distributors, such as Amazon, your favorite bookstore, and at the Somos en escrito online Tienda/Store. Check Bookshop and Barnes & Noble in the coming weeks. 

Order your copy now and be a part of Chicanofuturism.
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2021 Extra-Fiction

8/4/2021

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​EMERGING

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 10.8.2021!
Don't get your three hands stuck in the door! Submit now!

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Manuscripts must be unpublished, in English, Spanish, or Ingléspañol.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 Email Word format (.docx) unpublished submissions with short bio in third person and author’s photo to editors@somosenescrito.com. One submission per author, 6,000 word limit, contact us beforehand if the submission is over 6,000 words. Submission is free. 
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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.

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New Fantasy book!

7/13/2021

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​“Carlos Castañeda meets kaiju hunting in a rollicking adventure, this epic journey of discovery, transformation and destiny will keep readers at the edge of their seats and gasping at every new twist.”
DAVID BOWLES, author of Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky

“Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub will remain on my reading table to enjoy time and again. Felicidades y bravos, García. Encore!”
LUCHA CORPI, author of Black Widow’s Wardrobe
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Somos en escrito is pleased to announce its first publication of a Chicano Fantasy/Science-Fiction book, ​Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub ​by R. Ch. Garcia.

Michael Sedano of La Bloga says "There’s lots of reasons to be eager, I’ll focus on three: Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub is a rare Chicanocentric fantasy novel. Death Song does some teaching. Chicxulub brings lots of fun." 
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​Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub by R. Ch. Garcia is a New Adult book 
As Sentinel of a pre-Hispanic legacy, Tomás Chaneco has trained warriors to defeat the mysterious, eons-old creature, La Muerte Blanca.  But never has the chosen one been a too-young americano. To complete his duties, the shaman-storyteller Tomás must challenge and upset Miguel's entire worldview, with methods as powerful as Otherworld magic, and guide the young man in transforming himself into a fit Slayer.

Reminiscent of Zorba and The Teachings of Don Juan, more than just "ethnic fiction" aimed at that audience, nor simply genre fantasy, Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub owes its birth to paths open by Rudy Anaya and will give readers a whirlwind of a "dragon fantasy." 


See the book on our Somos en escrito Foundation Press page and purchase it online here. (Or click on the dragon below).
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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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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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