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Benjamin Mauk

March 21, 2023

The Fugitive World (Nonfiction), Berlin, GERMANY The Fugitive World is a work of reportage profiling communities in margins and shatter zones beyond the state. “I hope my book sparks a ... [Read More]

Francisco González

March 21, 2023

Last Time I Checked, This Was Still America (Linked Story Collection), Palo Alto, CA   ... [Read More]

Jason Prokowiew

March 21, 2023

War Boys: A Father and Son Memoir (Memoir), Wales, MA “If War Boys meets its potential it will be an anti-war- anti-displacement rallying call.” I’m the author of War Boys: a Father and Son ... [Read More]

Jennifer De Leon

March 21, 2023

False Light (YA Historical Novel), Southborough, MA “My hope is that readers can make connections between the current wave of Central American immigration and its many root causes, all through the ... [Read More]

Jessica Mollo

March 21, 2023

Suture (Stage Play), Brooklyn, NY “I hope to bring awareness to human trafficking and its intersection with vulnerable groups such as refugees to ultimately catalyze social and political ... [Read More]

Joanna Hong

March 21, 2023

Mother Tongue (Novel), Santa Monica, CA “I hope that my work can ask difficult questions and plant seeds of genuine empathy for the forgotten or marginalized.” Joanna Hong was born in Los Angeles ... [Read More]

Lauren Markham

March 21, 2023

A Map of Future Ruins (Nonfiction), Berkeley, CA A Map of Future Ruins explores the myths of global migration past and present. “I hope this work leads people to grapple with the violence of ... [Read More]

Ledia Xhoga

March 21, 2023

Misinterpretation (Literary Novel), Brooklyn, NY “To humanize “the other”. To build a bridge instead of a wall. To offer a glimpse into Albanian culture and history.” I am a fiction writer and ... [Read More]

Meghana Mysore

March 21, 2023

A Canopy of Branches (Fiction), Lake Oswego, OR “I aim to inspire connection and recognition in the reader through complicating the portraits of Indian Americans in literature and portraying ... [Read More]

Molly O’Toole

March 21, 2023

THE ROUTE: The Untold Story of the New Migrant Underground (Nonfiction), Washington, D.C. The Route: The Untold Story of the New Migrant Underground explores how indomitable resilience and a ... [Read More]

Nastaran Ahmadi

March 21, 2023

Can't Stay. Can't Stay. Won't Go. (Screenplay), Brooklyn, NY “To explore the complexities of familial dynamics in a dangerous, complicated world, blending fact and fiction to deliver an honest truth ... [Read More]

Patrick Strickland

March 21, 2023

When the Knives Came Out: Greece's Far Right, Migration, and Resilience (Nonfiction), Forney, TX "Raise awareness about the risks refugees and migrants reaching Europe routinely endure, from what ... [Read More]

Sofi Stambo

March 21, 2023

All In (Novel), Brooklyn, NY “I hope to give voice to so many who are afraid to share their stories or prefer to continue to be invisible, because that's all you get with no language, papers and ... [Read More]

Seth Berkman

March 21, 2023

Piners and Prophets: One American Town’s Radical Transformation (Nonfiction), New York, NY Piners and Prophets: One American Town's Radical Transformation examines the power imbalance between ... [Read More]

Summer Awad

March 21, 2023

No English, Swahili (Creative Nonfiction), Ames, IA The collected essays of No English, Swahili honor the refugees Awad worked with in resettlement and critiques our broken systems that shut them ... [Read More]

Alessandro Romero

March 21, 2023

 Our Little Manila (Story Collection), New York, NY “I hope to do my part in ensuring that queer immigrant stories go out into the world––to help pave reparative paths and new possibilities for my ... [Read More]

Vanessa Hua

March 21, 2023

El Nido (Novel), San Francisco Bay Area, CA In El Nido, the fates of four families collide, illuminating the nature of territory, predators and prey, surveillance and suburbia. “I’ve always ... [Read More]

Yilin Wang

March 21, 2023

A Sichuan Diaspora Daughter's Kitchen (Poetry), Vancouver, BC “I hope that my project will spark more inter-community conversations about Sino diaspora immigration experiences and encourage more ... [Read More]

Svetlana Satchkova

July 20, 2022

Teeth (novel) Brooklyn  NY Teeth is a family drama that evokes the upside-down, post-truth climate of Putin’s Russia, where it’s almost impossible to decipher fact from fabrication. With this ... [Read More]

S.B. Ryther

July 20, 2022

Wesley and the Exceptional Love (novel)  Minneapolis, MN Wesley and the Exceptional Love, a series of four linked novellas, braids together family histories of migration and immigration to Minnesota ... [Read More]

Sarah James

July 20, 2022

Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen (novel)  Los Angeles, CA 1943, Los Angeles. When Hollywood’s most feared critic is found dead at the Hollywood Canteen in an apparent suicide, writer Annie ... [Read More]

Nishant Batsha

July 20, 2022

A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart (novel)  Buffalo, NY A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart follows an Indian revolutionary and white American student who unexpectedly fall in love in 1917 Palo Alto. The ... [Read More]

Nick Gardner

July 20, 2022

Cass, A Psychedelic Anti-Western (novel)  Washington, DC "Cass: A Psychedelic Anti-Western is a dystopian novel that questions mythology, conspiracy theories, cults, gender, and belief all within a ... [Read More]

MM DeVoe

July 20, 2022

Only Child (novel)  NY, NY Only Child is a clever, fun-to-read novel set in a near future where stay-at-home parenthood is a paid, full-time career with vacations and training… …blissful until you ... [Read More]

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