The Emerging Writer Fellowships program is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that attracts an overwhelmingly gifted group of fantastic writers. We’d like to acknowledge – and introduce them to you – here:
FICTION
Timea Balogh, The Stone Men
Audrey Gutierrez, The Fractures of Nos Castillo
Hurmat Kazmi, Sissies
Juan Fernando Villagomez, Rail Dogs
POETRY
Jada Allen, Black Calamus
Asa Elko, The Only Ones Without Wings
Eduardo Martinez-Leyva, Cowboy Park
Oak Morse, Magenta
Jake Phillips, To Want Too Much
Megan Pinto, Saints of Little Faith
Giovannai Rosa, We Still Eat Sugar
Hannah Whiteman, Slough
NONFICTION
Jonathan Gleason, A Field Guide to Falling Ill
Saba Sebhatu, The World Not Yet Whole
Victoria Simon, Stories from the Pale and Beyond
SPANISH
Laura Organero, Montefeliz
HONORABLE MENTIONS
FICTION
Christopher Alonso, Miami, Atlantis
Catalina Bartlett, Comadres: Stories
Christina Berke, The Women
Bella Bravo, Smoke Fills the Palace
Joan Cherilien, Makandal
December Cuccaro, Grief-Giver
Adachioma Ezeano, Home is a Bruised Girl
Miguel Guerrero Becerra, Tempestad
John T. Howard, Monsters We Then Made
Katherine Hur, Rabbit in the Moon
Oluwabambi Ige, Bone and Soil
Julian Iralu, Cotton Candy Smile
David Kennedy, The Bargainer
Neshat Khan, Gifted
Juliana Lamy, Agwe Returns Home to Find—
Michelle Lee, motherland
Jared Lemus, Guatemalan Rhapsody
Dina Mousa, The Dew of Men
Stephen Narain, Nirvana
Dana Pina, Sweet Carolina
Crystal Powell, Transposition
Malorie Reid, All the Things Unsaid
Maria Robinson, Two Winters
Taylor Sezen, Yona
Avigayl Sharp, Uncontrollable, Irrelevant
Sandra Sidi, The Garden of Israel Will Never Sleep
Steffi Sin, Bird with No Legs
Alison Sprout, Unsung, Undone
Noah Thomas, Failure to Launch
Jennifer Tubbs, Starseed
POETRY
Lissa Batista, Birth Chart
Pierce Brown, Elhannon
Cristi Donoso, Certain Species of Want
Eddie Krzeminski, Heat Waves
Jarrett Moseley, In this strange light
Aria Pahari, Threat Perception
Phuong Pham Lan, Drowning Dragon
Srestha Sen, Nice Face
Sydney Smith, It’s strange to think it’s normal
Daniella Toosie-Watson, What We Do With God
NONFICTION
Radhiyah Ayobami, How to Break All the Heavenly Rules
Jessica Ciccarelli, Almost Home
Opal Gayle, The Taste of Ashes
Grace Gilbert, holly
Maya Gonzales, The Story of the Little Brown Family
Daniel Melchior Jr., The Silk Finisher
Jason Prokowiew, Raised by Wolves
Ebony Rhodes, The Geoveritas
Rachael Yahne, Her, After
SPANISH
Ana Amaya, Las Tres Gracias
Noraya Ccoyure, Boulevard de animales
Alfonso Felix, Mi Gran Novela Americana
Pedro Mieles, El diario de la noche
Rogelio Orizondo, El soldadito escribano
Robert Anthony Quinones Rivera, Vórtice, una revelación de luz y agua
Marby Reyes, Hasta que la muerte los separe
Alvaro Vásquez, Peregrinaje
The Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowships program is supported by The Jorge M. Peréz Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation, the Green Family Foundation, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Department of State Division of Arts and Culture.
