Budding Latina writers will have an opportunity to have their work published and earn a paid published assignment for TheLatinaVoz.com. The winning entry will be selected by a vote of our subscribers and a three-member independent panel of Latina writers.

Entries must be 1,500 words or less and submitted on a Microsoft Word document; topics are open; and poetry is accepted.

Only LatinaVoz.com subscribers may vote, and only one vote per subscriber will be permitted. Free subscriptions are available to all by clicking here.

The winner will be announced in December.

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Gwendolyn Zepeda is a Chicana Houstonian. Her first book, “To the Last Man I Slept With and All the Jerks Just Like Him,” was published by Arte Publico Press in 2004, and Warner Books will publish her upcoming novel in 2007.

 

Author Mary Castillo writes chick-lit novellas with strong-minded, bright, funny Latina heroines. Her debut novel, “Hot Tamara,” was Cosmopolitan magazine’s Red Hot Read in April 2005, and her latest, “In Between Men,” released earlier this year, lets the lingerie fly when she and “some well-meaning (if slightly loca) tías” transform a 29-year-old ESL teacher and single mom into a sex goddess.

 

Jamie Martinez Wood is an eighth-generation Californian. Jamie has written on her three loves: Latina pride, strong women, and nature. Two of her books, "The Hispanic Baby Name Book" and "The Latino Writers & Journalists" (to be released February 2007) focus on her Latina roots and draw from her ancestry and 200 years of Orange County residency.