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What it means to me to be a Latino writer
By Ulises Silva, Culture Con Limón When I wrote the press release for Solstice back in 2007, I lost count of the things I knocked over as I purposefully went out of […]
Chicago Latino Writing Initiative Launching to Cultivate Latino Writers
PRESS RELEASE Proyecto Latina and Gozamos are partnering to launch a groundbreaking writing initiative to cultivate a new generation of Latino writers and help promote Chicago as a mecca of powerful Latino voices. […]
Author Isabel Allende discusses challenges as female writer and upcoming projects
By Veronica Rios, Latina Voices The Chicago Public Library Foundation welcomed Latina writer Isabel Allende on Tuesday night to discuss her published works and the challenges she has faced as […]
Dear Texas Book Festival—Where Have All the Latino Writers Gone?
By Gregg Barrios, Texas Observer Over the past few years I’ve been losing my faith in the Texas Book Festival as a vehicle for bringing Tejanos and Texans together for […]
Writer & Activist Bobbi Salinas Dead Several Months Before Family Finds Body
By Anne Constable, The New Mexican Barbara Salinas-Norman was a Chicana activist, a bilingual teacher, an author, a publisher and an artist. She was “intelligent,” “inspiring,” a “trailblazer.” But her […]
Number of Latino Writers for TV Are Up
By Jorge Rivas, Colorlines On Tuesday the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) released a report that found the number of writer of color writing for television has doubled since the […]
Charlie Gonzalez blasts New York Times Op-Ed Writer
By Raisa Camargo, Voxxi The chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Charlie Gonzalez (D-Texas), blasts a New York Times op-ed writer claiming that he failed to understand the complexity of […]
Aztlan Reads, A Site Created To Promote Latino Writers
It all started on Twitter. A conversation about being able to find literature by Latino writers morphed into a hashtag, then a Twitter account, and finally a website. David Cid, […]
Cuban National Hero José Martí: Poet, Writer, Activist
By Victoria Cepeda, Efrain Nieves Every time we write on historical figures, during the research process, our options, on what to bring you, expand. Thus, in our quest for content […]
Opinion: In Hollywood, Latinos are still waiting for their close-up
Carolyn Curiel served as a U.S. ambassador and White House senior speechwriter in the Clinton administration. Latinos will be an integral part of the Academy Awards on Sunday. You likely […]