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Latinx voices continue to be underrepresented in publishing. We collectively strive to elevate writers of our cultural community by creating and holding space for the authentic and diverse voices that make up Dominican writers today. Quislaona welcomes you to the fantasy island where the water glows with magic, and the Loro fly high. Run alongside the ciguapas protecting the island's sacred hearts or listen to the merfolk chat at Mimi's Bar. Within this collection, you will find twenty-four creators who contributed stories taking place on this fantasy island through a mix of prose and comics. Inside, you'll discover tales of war, heartbreak, family, and magic. This anthology is a collaborative effort between three organizations. Dominican Writers Association, Worldbuilding Magazine, and Cultura Cómic RD. Discover how this fascinating intersection of art, literature and speculative fiction became a celebration of Dominican voices in fantasy. Featuring work by: Barbara Perez Marquez, Lissy Marlin, Nelly Rosario, Annecy Baez, Amaris Castillo, Manny Minaya, Alex V. Cruz, Laura Suazo, Judy Fernandez Diaz, Pauline M. Kulstad-González, Thanisha Peña, Ang Nunez, Maria E. Vega (Odiresan), Ana Lucía Sánchez, Gabriela Taveras, Joan M. Arias (KING), Aníbal Hernández Medina, Ana María González Puente, Kevin Cruz Guzman, Virgo CA, Mari Gabi Messina, Melissa Falcon "MelimeL", & Johanny "Joa" Ortega

Palma Sola, de Gabriel Castillo Campusano, es una novela gráfica que, desde diversas fuentes, narra la historia de una masacre de campesinos perpetrada por las autoridades dominicanas en 1962, en Las Matas de Farfán, hecho que, al igual que la Revolución de abril de 1965, marcada con sangre la segunda mitad del siglo XX en la República Dominicana.Los hermanos Ventura Rodríguez, marcados por la historia, nacieron vinculados al movimiento campesino más notable de las Antillas: el olivorismo. Y como Olivorio Mateo, un pobre campesino mulato de San Juan de la Maguana, los hermanos Ventura Rodríguez y miles de dominicanos, fueron arrastrados a una muerte violenta a manos de quienes aún se esconden tras las máscaras del poder y la intolerancia para imponer sus ideas y tus intereses."Con excelente manejo de la tensión y un dibujo exquisito, Gabriel Castillo nos lleva de la mano para narrar el declive y renacimiento del movimiento Liborista. Demostrando un buen manejo del arte secuencial, nos muestra esa parte olvidada de nuestra historia sin la cual es imposible entender el presente. de manera agradable y accesible ".-NINO MARTÍNEZ SOSADirector de Liborio, la película

Literary Works by 10 Dominican Women is an ode and an incentive to learn more about these amazing creative mujeres. This book brings together ten transcendental Dominican women writers who have lived or live outside of the Dominican Republic. They are: Camila Henr├¡quez Ure├▒a, Rhina Espaillat, M├⌐lida Garc├¡a, Osiris Mosquea, Josefina B├íez, Aurora Arias, Yrene Santos, Marianela Medrano, Sussy Santana and Rosa Silverio. Aside from poetry, fiction, and microfiction, this book includes literary texts of fictional and anecdotal nature, which celebrate the writers'' genius, talent, or a special aspect of their lives. Writers with outstanding literary careers wrote the tributes that introduce each of the women writers. Moreover, there is an exquisite drawing-homage of each Dominican women writer made by another talented Dominican artist, Nathalie Rodr├¡guez. It is a privilege to give you a compilation of texts that vary in genres, time periods, literary trends, styles, motivations, and topics; texts from and for women writers who due to their talent, their art, their education, their persistence, their strength, their love, and respect for writing have become pillars of our literary canon.This book was originally published in Spanish under the title 10 dominicanas de letras: homenaje & antolog├¡a (DWA 2019), and today we present it to you in a beautiful translation by Prof. Kadiri J. Vaquer Fen├índez. 

Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá is a fresh collection of diverse voices from the Dominican community that offers a balance of contemporary writers of multiple generations of the Dominican diaspora. The world of Dominican literature we grew up in taught us how stories become a fierce tool that serves to amplify the realities of some while muting and many times erasing the experiences of many. This anthology includes stories that are a product of those generations. In them, you will find people who navigate homesickness, nostalgia, assimilation, identity, immigration, and so many other societal factors created by the systems of both the United States and the Dominican Republic. While these individuals grapple with full acceptance or a sense of home in both societies, the contributors put words on paper so that we can find our own full selves in the spaces created by their words. Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá attests to the vibrancy, power, and force of the sentimientos encontrados within the balance of both the here and the there.

Armando Batista''s debut chapbook is a kaleidoscope of family, personal mythology and the poetics of memory-making. These 13 poems will take you on a journey of ancestors, naming rituals, personal and fantastical transformation, house music, hometown and motherland, mental time travel, Twilight Zone, afrofuturism, and aging. Think of this as a modern-day Leaves of Grass if Whitman were a child of Dominican immigrants growing up in a Hip-Hop inspired America.