Individual promos will follow, but for now, please Save the Dates, I’d love to see you there!
Mark your calendars because we are NAMING THE BODY with a lot of Pride!
Author: mariaminguezarias
PUBLICACIÓN Antología Desde esta orilla, escrituras urgentes
Acaba de salir publicada la antología en español de Estados Unidos Desde esta orilla, escrituras urgentes (Digitus Indie, 2026) en Monterey (CA) editada por mis queridísimas compañeras de “Madaldistas” (colectivo de escrituras y proyectos feministas) Kadiri Vaquer Fernández y Ana Luengo. Me enorgullece y fortalece por partes iguales haber visto nacer este proyecto desde la costa californiana y desde unos Estados Unidos que se inmolan bajo la batuta presidencial más ignorante, incompetente, narcisista y violenta que este joven e insular país haya conocido jamás.
Esta antología no necesita explicación, someone had to bear witness en español y urgentemente para el resto del mundo, and Kadiri and Ana took it upon themselves to do it with remarkable feminist praxis in spite the world around them OR because the world around them.
Pero mejor os dejo con las fundamentales palabras de una de las editoras:
“En un momento en que la tensión social y política aumentan progresivamente parece que ya no se trata de un período delimitado que pasará, sino de un rasgo dominante de una nación que se despliega. […] Ojalá este proyecto sea un paso adelante, un acto simbólico que nos devuelva la sensación de agencia en un tiempo en que la libertad de ser es un lujo y el único futuro que nos pertenece es ahora”. — Kadiri Vaquer Fernández (fragmento del prólogo).
Mi contribución a esta urgente antología se titula “Parte Clínico de una Nación”, ¿qué pasaría si el 4 de julio de 2025 los Estados Unidos de América entraran como pacientes en el Departamento de Emergencias de un hospital público cualquiera? Yo me lo imaginé y le redacté un parte médico con diagnóstico y tratamiento incluidos. Para leerlo tendréis que adquirir esta maravillosa y urgente antología aquí.
¡Mi enhorabuena a las editoras y a las autoras seleccionadas!
(como siempre, mi plural es inclusivo).
PANEL Publishing the Future
This Aunt Luter will moderate a very much needed panel about the future (such an impossible word to concieve these days!) of publishing! A Publishing the Future panel seems so fitting for our times! How do we (indie presses) reconcile present and future while struggling to survive financially? How do we search for the next boundary pushing manuscript while freedom of speech is under threat? Is it possible to inspire readers through our collective sense of loss and fear? How do these indie presses stand apart from big publishers and from each other?
Publishing the Future will be one of the headliner events at this year’s Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, CA. It is a ticketed event. Get your $20 ticket here before they run out! Join us to see how indie presses are raising to the ocassion.
From the Bay Area Book Festival site:
To write an inclusive future, we must publish diverse voices who represent our collective interests and stories. The publishers and imprints represented in this headliner panel will discuss the implications of the current political climate on the future of publishing and put forward creative solutions to the lack of opportunities for publishing underrepresented stories.
Tiny Reparations Press, founded by standup comedian, bestselling author, producer, and actress Phoebe Robinson, is a highly curated imprint dedicated to fiction and nonfiction that pushes the conversation forward.
HeartDrum, an acclaimed imprint of HarperChildren’s featuring stories that emphasize the present and future of Native peoples and the strength of young Indigenous heroes, will be represented by its author-curator and award-winning writer Cynthia Leitich Smith.
Palestinian American author and book worker Hannah Moushabeck runs Interlink Publishing alongside her family, the only Palestinian-owned independent publishing house in the United States offering global perspectives to readers through works of literature-in-translation, history, activism, politics, art, cultural guides, award-winning cookbooks, and illustrated children’s books.
Through publishing talented writers whose works have been overlooked by large-scale publishers, co-founder Kate Gale of Red Hen Press fosters diversity, promotes literacy in local schools, and supports the Greater Los Angeles Area and international communities with arts-based events and literary advocacy.
Moderated by acting Co-CEO of the intersectional, feminist press Aunt Lute, María Mínguez Arias, this inspiring panel is a celebration of the innovative and diverse members of the publishing industry dedicated to creatively curating and publishing the voices of our future.
Introductory live music performance by Bushwick Book Club Oakland!
Honored and looking forward to conversing with these publishing trailblazers
ENCUENTRO con el Club de lectura en español del MPC!
No siento más que una enorme gratitud por las mentes inquietas que leyeron mi novela Patricia sigue aquí (Editorial Egales, 2018) y hoy conversaron conmigo en el marco del Club de lectura en español del Monterey Peninsula College, y por mi amiga, la poeta y profesora puertoriqueña Kadiri Vaquer Fernández, que organizó este lujo de encuentro. Comida y música incluidas. ¡Qué día más bonito en la ciudad junto al mar!
Naming the Body COVER REVEAL!
And what a cover! I am incredibly grateful for the work of the poet and cover designer Cloud Delfina Cardona. I loved her idea of picking an anatomy study for the cover which, by the way, are not easy find in the form of a pregnant body! Visit her site to see more of her impactful work. You can also follow her on Instagram where she posts regularly.
And I am equally grateful and in awe with the work of my fellow writers Anne Raeff, Kianny N. Antigua, Mariana Graciano and Kadiri Vaquer Fernández, and for taking the time to read the manuscript and comment on their first impressions. Their words give me so much hope for this litte book!
maría mínguez arias 