Sometimes We Win (Nonfiction), Cambridge, MA My essay collection, Sometimes We Win, is an unflinching look at the immigrant rights movement, spotlighting a group of rabble-rousing janitors in ... [Read More]
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Black Rice (Novel), Chicago, IL Black Rice is a historical novel that explores centuries-long connections between China and people of African descent, as told by five members of an Afro-Asian ... [Read More]
Sabina Vajrača
For Buraz (Screenplay), Los Angeles, CA For Buraz is a neo-noir crime drama about Bosnian War refugees who came here as children, and where their chase of the American Dream has led them. "I ... [Read More]
Saba Brelvi
The Squatters (Novel), Abu Dhabi, UAE The Squatters tells the story of an affluent multicultural town in England grappling with the arrival of a Muslim family seeking asylum. "This novel ... [Read More]
Melody Cooper
Northern Cross (Screenplay), Los Angeles, CA In a story laced with magical realism, a Black U.S. Army vet is forced to face her past in Afghanistan when she helps a Mexican immigrant and her ... [Read More]
Maz Do
Ordinary Fruit (Novel), Ithaca, NY Ordinary Fruit inverts the American Dream to tell the story of a mother and daughter who cannot stop running away from each other. “Through this novel I ask ... [Read More]
Marielena Hincapié
Becoming America: A Personal History of A Nation's Immigration Wars (Nonfiction), Washington, D.C. Becoming America, A Personal History of A Nation’s Immigration Wars tells the expansive tale of ... [Read More]
Kanak Kapur
Song for Rani (Novel), Nashville, TN Song for Rani is the story of two women, a college student living in Los Angeles and her childhood caretaker, who reunite after several years in Mumbai. “I ... [Read More]
Jennifer Chen
Underground Chinatown (Historical Fiction), Los Angeles, CA Underground Chinatown is an historical fiction novel set in the 1900s to 1980s in which all Chinatowns in California are connected by ... [Read More]
Jason Prokowiew
War Boys: a Father and Son Memoir (Memoir), Wales, MA War Boys tells of my Russian father’s adoption by the Nazis who murdered his family during WWII, and the trauma he carried into parenthood. ... [Read More]
Ibtisam Barakat
A Palestinian Love Story (Memoir), Columbia, MO A Palestinian memoir of rarely-known realities of college life under military occupation in the West Bank on a campus full of refugees. “I hope ... [Read More]
George Walker Torres
Low Sky, Narrow Earth (Screenplay), São Paulo, BRAZIL A Venezuelan immigrant living in São Paulo falls in love with a Syrian refugee who mysteriously disappears and embarks on a search that will lead ... [Read More]
emet ezell
Sabile (Poetry), Berlin, GERMANY Sabile maps the forgotten deportations of Latvian Jews by the Russian Empire. Combining poetry, prophecy, and family archives, ezell summons the ghosts of forced ... [Read More]
Ellen Denny
Project Qyzra (Stage play), Toronto, Ontario, CANADA Project Qyzra is a solo stage play in which I try to piece together the immigration case that led to my friend Qyzra’s deportation. “I ... [Read More]
Clementina Ojie
Jàpà (Screenplay), New York, NY After receiving admission to a U.S. university, a Nigerian teenager is forced to turn to a loan shark to raise money for his visa. “I hope this film fosters ... [Read More]
Angelica Allen
Matriarch (Novel), Encinitas, CA Matriarch tells the tall tale of modern Iran through three generations of mothers and daughters coping with the challenges of immigration, identity, and inherited ... [Read More]
Ali Maza
Only The Good Ones (Graphic Novel), Queens, NY Two teenage girls meet in a shelter for asylum seekers, forming a friendship while the flaws of America's immigration system threaten to derail their ... [Read More]