Jonathan Hafetz is associate professor at Seton Hall Law School and has litigated numerous landmark habeas corpus detention cases. He also is the co-editor (with Mark Denbeaux) of The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law (NYU Press, 2009).
Inheriting Injustice and Perpetuating Impunity: What You Didn’t Know About Guantánamo
What must count among Obama’s sharpest regrets is the way in which he mishandled Guantanamo....
Open to any author writing in English about the Chicanx/Latinx experience, the Rivera Book Prize is committed to the discovery and fostering of extraordinary writing by a first-time or early career author whose work examines the long and varied contributions of Chicanx/Latinx in the US. The Rivera Book Prize aims to provide a platform that showcases the emerging literary talent of the Chicanx/Latinx community, to cultivate the next generation of Chicanx/Latinx writers, and to continue the rich literary memory of Tomás Rivera, Chicano author, poet, activist, and educator.
AWARD: $1,000 prize, publication of manuscript by LARB Libros, and ten copies. Additionally, winner will receive a stipend to assist with travel to Southern California for a reading and book signing at UC Riverside during Writers Week.
DEADLINE: January 17, 2020. Apply via Submittable Here.
Entry Fee: $35. Entry fees are non-refundable.
Eligibility: All previously unpublished works in prose written primarily in English focused on the Chicanx/Latinx experience in the United States.
