The Emerging Writer Fellowships program is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that attracts an overwhelmingly gifted group of fantastic writers. We would like to acknowledge the following manuscripts:
FICTION
Savannah Bowen, BOUYON
Steve Chang, There Is Always Another Valley
Elizabeth Iversen, After the Saviors
Ucheoma Onwutuebe, LET ME TAKE CARE OF YOU
E.R. Pulgar, The Reckoning of Casanova Bellomonte
Noel Quiñones, The Many Saints of Norwood
Rikha Rani, Olo Soi
Juliana Roth, Creature
Connor White, The Rest
Brenton Zola, Psalms of Our Blood
POETRY
Nicole Adabunu, A Lower Heaven
S. Erin Batiste, Hoard
Shlagha Borah, daughterline
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion, Take Me to That Place of Ancestral Memory
Jalen Eutsey, Bubble Gum Stadium
SR Graham, Swell
L.A. Johnson, Blood Radio
Tobi Kassim, Stone Garden
Danilo Marin, The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters
Qiang Meng, The Year of the Bunny
NONFICTION
Marco Verdoni, An American Adolescence: My Decade Growing Up Behind Bars
SPANISH
Tyrone Aragón C, EJECUCIÓN
Gustavo Hernandez, El enemigo de América
Kiren Legon, Puerta de salida
Ana Carolina Rodríguez Cacio, Nacer fea
Miguel Ullivarri, ASTEROIDE (WIP)
Adelaida Vengoechea, Adelfa y las leyes de la termodinámica
HONORABLE MENTIONS
FICTION
Ololade Ajayi, Alhaja Calvary
Nathalie Argueta, The Trinity Shroud
Ricardo Herrera Bandrich, Little Immensities
Corrinne Bollendorf, Delicate Animals
Ciani Bonner, Twunnies: Tales of Growth and Renewal
Eric Boyd, Far Gone
Elisa Bozmarova, Like Mother
Ivory Council, Parallel
Rose Darline Darbouze, Fanm Djanm: Intimacies of Motherhood
Anna de la O, Hadalandia
Bhoomika Dongol, Lumanti and Other Short Stories
Ally Duvak, (-)in-chief-
Delight Ejiaka, Blood Altar Not Moldy Flesh
Hasret Eleby, The Shapes You Leave Behind
Sheena Raza Faisal, Monsoon Fever
Victoria Fort, MOON LEGION
Emily Lu Gao, Admitted
Maria Gregorio, The Girl Child
Dee Henderson, Alice’s Absolution
Kristina Hodelin, Shadows Outside the Gingerbread House
Elaf Jabr, isedlyfulthearemying
Neysa King, How to Be Loved
Parker Logan, The Happiest Place on Earth
Erin Luna, Things Have to Change
Ariel Mandel, The World as We Know It
Corley Miller, Deep Hole
George Moreno, Clouds Like Horses Running Together
Juliana Nusbaum, The Secret Keepers
Tatiana Pandiani, MIAMI BITCH [alternate title SITUATIONSHIPS]
Shari Poindexter, Love and a Sachet of Joo Joo and Other Infidelities
Crystal Santos, “Unspoken Secrets”
Eliezra Schaffzin, The Archive of Everything
Gerard Shaka, Smoke & Whisper
Charlie Sorrenson, Just Be Normal
Miles Strucker, The Twisted Divine
Mika Taylor, Quintland
Hunter Therron, The Man Who Only Says Rain
Juan Fernando Villagómez, Rail Dogs
POETRY
Yahya Ashour, It’s Too Late to Tell You
Clayre Benzadón, Moon as Salted Lemon
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Yerbabuena
Kendall Grady, MONEY WITH YOU
Gabrielle Hogan, Loverboy
Carolene Kurien, The Edge
Mateo Lara, A Fearful Glow
Meghan Malachi, No Lace Fronts in Iowa City
Génesis Mancheren Abaj, Untitled
Wes Matthews, Aching Machine
Lee Ann Pelletier, I Can’t Save Us
Alixen Pham, What Happens Now
Caleb Scott, Sometimes the Body
Alafia Sessions, Nine Drops of Turpentine
Rosa Sophia, Infinite Baffle
Samantha Stevens, Rituals for the Living
Sin á Tes Souhaits, Literal Dope
NONFICTION
Fatmire Ahmeti, Beyond Bars and Borders: Balkan Stories of Exile and Imprisonment
Madison Barney, Our Ancestors Want Us To Be Mushrooms
Christina Berke, Well, Body
Tammy Delatorre, Broke Ohana
Lourdes Fernandez, Sparks that Ignite
Jersey Harte, New York Water Stories, 2017-2024
Emily Mathis, The Gravitron
Candice Rankin, The Grasshopper Wars
Tylea Richard, Caribbean Gothic
Saba Sebhatu, The World Not Yet Whole
Zach Semel, The Other Side of the Wall
Kerry Stapley, Come Get Him Zero
Daniel Uncapher, Beautiful Fictions
Marjorie Valbrun, Papa and The Dictators: A Memoir of Haitian Exile
Dana Wahab, Cedars, Seaside, Cry Baby
Kaila Young, The Bluebirds Still Sing for You: A Memoir of a Soul Dog and the Shelter She Led Me To
SPANISH
Sonia Contreras, El altar de los peces
Marcela Lopez, El palacio de la suerte
Emerson Machtus, El mundo que nunca fue
Cirenaica Moreira Díaz, Falansterio
Ninfa Moreno, La eternidad en un instante
Laura O., Montefeliz
Juan Silva, Sueños Tergiversados
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.
