Public Humanities Fellowship Application

Please describe your proposed Public Humanities Project, and how it relates to your selected institution/s, and will advance your current research in an essay of no more than 1 double-spaced page. (Refer to our website for example projects) *

Editorial Negra is a bilingual (English & Spanish) literary project that publishes Latin American poets in pocket-size zines format —for free distribution and promotion of Latinx voices in New York City. Our proposed Public Humanities Project aims to edit a new zine written by an unpublished Latin American author based in NYC. Editorial Negra will call for manuscripts and pick only one writer for edition. With the money granted by this fellowship, we expect to afford a professional cluster (integrated by editor, designer, translator, and author) to create together a pocket poetry book. One hundred copies in English and one hundred copies in Spanish will be printed (in risograph technique) at Endless Editions, a BIPOC-immigrant-queer-friendly printer studio based in Manhattan. Every zine will be folded by hand. On a second step, these Latin American pocket poetry zines will be distributed for free, together with previous publications by Editorial Negra, in, at least, ten different spots related to arts and literature in NYC, including libraries, bookstores, and museums. On the final step, a poetry recital and zine-launch by Latin American authors would be performed at some artistic or community center —such as Instituto Cervantes or El Museo del Barrio— institutions we wish to work with in this Public Humanities Project. Other organizations we would like to engage in are Codex Books, Mayday Space, and Brooklyn Public Libraries, to name a few. The execution of this project will nurse my goals as MFA in Creative Writing graduate student, also helping me to promote contemporary feminist, Latin American, and worker-class literature in the United States.

In two sentences or less, tell us a bit about your background and whether you have any special skills; graphic design, video, social media, web design writing/editing, fundraising (proposal writing) knowledge, language skills, etc. that could be of interest to the collaborating institution. *

I am a Journalist, published author of fiction & non-fiction books, editor, literature professor, and unstoppable reader; a feminist who led the law against street sexual harassment in my homeland, Chile. Now studying an MFA in Creative Writing at NYU, Spanglish speaker eager to promote Latin American literature in the United States.