CRWROPPS Post: Inlandia Books Martinez Prize
Deadline extended to February 28, 2022!
One prize of $1000 and book publication through Inlandia Books will be awarded for a first book in fiction or creative nonfiction by a Hispanic, Latino/a/x, or Chicana/o/x writer.
Alex Espinoza will serve as judge for the 2022 Eliud Martínez Prize. The author of Still Water Saints, The Five Acts of Diego León, Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime, Alex Espinoza is recipient of fellowships from the NEA and MacDowell, as well as an American Book Award. He is also the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside.
The Inlandia Institute is a literary nonprofit and publishing house based in Inland Southern California dedicated to celebrating the region in word, image, and sound.
For submission guidelines and eligibility, please see below or visit https://tinyurl.com/InlandiaEMP .
Please feel free to contact us at any time with your questions at publications@inlandiainstitute.org. Thank you so much for your support and helping us spread the word about this prize.
- Submissions accepted only from writers who identify as Hispanic, Latino/a/x, or Chicana/o/x.
- Manuscripts can be in the form of fiction or creative non-fiction, including memoir, essays, stories, and multi-genre or hybrid works.
- Manuscripts should be between 150 to 300 typed pages, double-spaced in Times New Roman, 12-point font. Longer works of up to 500 pages may be submitted in proposal form only, with excerpt, table of contents, and synopsis. No in-progress manuscripts will be considered.
- At this time, only submissions written primarily in English will be considered.
- Submissions will be read blind, so do not include any contact information on the manuscript itself.
- Entries must be submitted via Inlandia's Submittable account.
- Manuscripts can be under consideration by other publishers, but the winning writer must agree to withdraw their entry from consideration by other publishers. There will be no refunds of entry fees.
Eligibility:
- Any U.S. writer of Hispanic, Latino/a/x, or Chicana/o/x descent who has not previously published a book of prose (any genre) may enter the contest, with the exception of current colleagues and/or students, close friends, or family of the judge. Additionally, anyone currently serving in the Inlandia Institute in the last two years, either as an employee or on the Inlandia Institute Board of Directors, or is a close family member of the above, is not eligible.
Cati Porter (she/her)
Executive Director
Inlandia Institute
4178 Chestnut Street
Riverside, CA 92501
951 790 2458
Celebrating the region in word, image, and sound.
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