Dr. Elizabeth W. Son is Associate Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University. She is the author of Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress (2018). You can follow her on Twitter @ElizabethWSon.
BLOG POST
Crossing Memories: Reckoning with Loss Past and Present in North and South Korea
BLOG POST
“Comfort Women”: Traveling Between History and Hope
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Eligibility: All previously unpublished works in prose written primarily in English focused on the Chicanx/Latinx experience in the United States.
