🚨Today, we are proud to unveil the cover of the 2026 Latino Book Review Magazine. This year's cover features the remarkable artwork of Gabriel Chávez Zeckua, whose visual art captures the spirit of this issue and the magical city of San Antonio. More coming soon...

"Ahead of the June 2026 release of Cages from @europaeditions.bsky.social, Chantel Acevedo talks to the Latino Book Review readers about her beautifully complex new novel and the inspirations behind the narrative."

"I began to research alternative devices...A device whose objective wasn’t to profit from the most important resources I held: my time, my focus, and my peace of mind." @thelightphone.bsky.social #MinimalistPhone

Bilingual Press and @cantomundo.bsky.social present the CantoMundo Chapbook Prize. The selected poet will have their submission translated into Spanish in a bilingual edition, receive $1,000 plus 10 copies of their published Chapbook. Deadline May 30th.

LATINO BOOK REVIEW invites you to the 2026 Latinx Storytellers Conference! Join us in NYC for two days of craft & community. Meet writers, illustrators, agents, editors & publishers. GET YOUR EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT now through May 31st at LatinxStorytellersConference.com @lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social

"Latino Leaders Speak, Volume II reminds us that leadership is rooted in the ability to overcome challenges, lift each other up, and remain grounded in our roots." —@mariateresakumar.bsky.social

🚨 If you haven't tuned in to our latest podcast interview with Ada Limón, you can listen to it on your favorite podcast platform or on our website! #AdaLimón #LatinxLiterature #latinolit #latinobookreview

"...Rey M. Rodríguez brings us his timely debut poetry collection Todos Somos Sagrados / All Are Sacred, a heartfelt testament of resilience, unconditional love and the immigrant women whose faith worked miracles for their community."

🔥🎙️ Latino Book Review Presents Ada Limón! 🎙️🔥 👉 bit.ly/4cHGeE0 We are thrilled to feature Ada Limón in this interview with Héctor “Vale” Rendón. Listen as she shares her journey as a poet, her ongoing pursuit of mindfulness, and reflections on her work and life.

"Often, curriculum champions the journey of Odysseus, Dante, and Beowulf, but like Kendrick Lamar says, 'they not like us.'" This book aims to change this.

This database hub is a carefully drawn map of a literary world too often left uncharted, bringing together Latinx authors, presses, journals, poet laureates, awards, and Spanish-language writing communities across the United States and more.

'Powerful Interviews with Black Literary Thinkers' offers access to a curated collection of rare historical materials, including videos of interviews and lectures. These primary sources serve as valuable resources for researchers, educators, and readers.

"The novel is set against the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica and the toppling of the Aztec empire. At the height of conflict, indigenous and migrant vampires must fight for existence as they are dragged into the battlefields of their human counterparts." @itoromo.bsky.social

"My work has been formed by exile and belonging, by music and silence, by violence and tenderness, by the histories of Haiti and the possibilities of these United States." —Patrick Sylvain

"Only the truth and nothing but the truth about men in power, and any interpersonal harm they caused, can help us reform power to create transformation of the self and SJW movements."

In this interview about her book Calle Patria (Suburbano Ediciones, 2026), Osorio discusses how a propped-up house acts as a symbol of domestic and social resistance, paralleling a fragile family structure.

"...Gac-Artigas opens our eyes to wounds that too often remain unseen—and reminds us that the chains history forged for women remain, and that poetry itself can become a first act of breaking them."

🎙️ Season 4 is here! Episode 1 of Latino Book Review Presents features the phenomenal Reyna Grande. Tune in and celebrate Latino storytelling. 📚✨

🔥🎙️ SEASON 4 IS HERE! 🎙️🔥 👉 bit.ly/4clb2Mc We are beyond thrilled to announce the premiere of Season 4 with the phenomenal Reyna Grande! 📚✨ We talk identity, resilience, migration, and the power of owning your story. #ReynaGrande @atriabooks.bsky.social

Muñoz was born in Bogotá in 1965, but one only needs to hear him speak to realize he was shaped by the streets of Cali, which he navigated extensively. It is no surprise, then, that the novel is primarily set in that city.

Make sure to submit! Deadline March 29th!

"Both philosophical and introspective, Pillars of Creation by Carlos Flores is a challenging book offering rewards for serious readers interested in the border, the people who live there, and the struggle with ideas that might give meaning to it all."

🚨 OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🚨 Latino Book Review is now accepting work for our 2026 print edition. Latino/a/x writers & artists worldwide—this is for you. 👉https://www.latinobookreview.com/call-for-submissions--latino-book-review-2026-print-edition--latino-book-review.html

"Anthem of Evaporated Tears packs into one poem the elements of nature—fire, water, earth, and air—and, into one suitcase, the ingredients of el deber del pan—egg, salt, flour, and waves—as it narrates an intergenerational break-up story..."

"For thirty years, Poetazos has accomplished what many larger institutions have struggled to do. It has brought literature back into the streets—tangible, delightful, and utterly accessible."

"Cris is the brilliant mind and Mexican author behind the autobiographical book, Elementos impares, a testament to science, sex, memory, & self-identity. She dives into the parallels between reality & memory, science & love, under the guise of conscience & identity."

"In the book, each female character embodies a unique experience of motherhood, which can be labeled as dissident due to their deviation from dominant traditional norms and perceptions of motherhood." —Fernanda Ortega @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

"Every person is a city, carrying a world within themselves, and nowhere is this more evident than in New York." —Nicole Naim Dib

"This full-length collection is Agnese’s debut poetry book, expressing integral themes displayed throughout her life and her perception of the natural world." @greenwriterspress.bsky.social

"This is it; this is what the world needs now, a group of superheroes who come in at the last minute to save the planet. The only thing is, these superheroes do not wear flashy capes, they do not wear their underwear over their regular clothes..."

In this recorded interview, history opens one of its rarest doors. Listen to the testimony of José Sáenz Pardo, one of the eight men who killed Pancho Villa on July 20, 1923, in Parral, Chihuahua.

"In a century fascinated by endings, few works have captured the texture of absence with such poise. This is not a book about the fall of civilization; it is a meditation on the persistence of meaning after the noise of civilization has gone silent."

"In prolific poet Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl’s rich and resonant seventh poetry collection, MeXicana, we hear the voice of a powerful woman ambitiously exploring the complexities of cultural hybridity."

Dive into a collection of rare historical videos, documents, and interviews that bring the voices of Latin America’s greatest writers to life! www.latinobookreview.com/archives-of-...

🚨Explore the Archives of Latin American Literary Masters! Dive into an extraordinary collection of rare historical videos, documents, and interviews that bring the voices of Latin America’s greatest writers to life.

"Ana Hebra Flaster was nearly six when her family fled Cuba and settled in Nashua, New Hampshire...Her writing about Cuba and Cuban Americans has appeared in the The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and elsewhere."

"La sangre del guerrero la borra la saliva del poeta; la del sumiso nadie la enjuaga: se extiende en la conciencia y desde la conciencia mata." —Fable

"Presented in collaboration with Latino Book Review, the panel brought together three voices whose paths intersected around the idea that to tell one’s story is to reclaim existence; and in this act, lies our revolution."

🚨Mark the date! 🗓️Oct. 18th, 4PM 📍Hay Festival Dallas Forum, Oak Cliff Cultural Center #LatinoBookReview #FundacionZapata #HayFestival #NarrativasRevolucionarias

🚨 Latino Book Review & Fundación Zapata invite you to "Narrativas Revolucionarias" — a powerful conversation on the role of stories born in times of rupture & upheaval. Panelists: Edgar Castro Zapata, Rossy Lima, Héctor “Vale” Rendón 📅 Oct. 18 📍Hay Festival Dallas

We’re thrilled to share Teresa Dovalpage's conversation with Miami-based Peruvian author Pedro Medina León about his novel Comanche, P.I.—now available in English.

There is a certain comfort in believing that literature resists cartography; that words and worlds, once written, float free, refusing to be bound by borders or coordinates. And yet, a new and ambitious work dares to challenge that assumption.

"In Latin America, mourning has never belonged solely to the cemetery. It spills into the plazas, the kitchens, the pages of books. To grieve is not to withdraw but to gather, to light candles, to braid flowers into hair, to tell stories so the absent remain among the living."

Isabel Cañas’ grisliest novel yet, The Possession of Alba Díaz, gives us a heroine who refuses to be a victim. “She is the captain of her soul, wielding the darkness inside her to defy husbands, priests, and demons alike.”

This October, Dallas will host the Hay Festival Forum—a global gathering of writers, musicians, and thinkers whose very purpose is to celebrate the richness of diverse voices.

"In Waiting for Godínez, Olivas suggests that we may indeed all be condemned to live in a Beckett play. The tragedy is that for too many—those who wait in detention centers, or in legal limbo—the absurd is not metaphor but reality."

"And then on July 7, my play became reality when ICE and other federal agents, including federalized National Guard troops, marched into MacArthur Park, which was mostly empty except for children who attended a summer camp."

Poet Carlota Caulfield’s Aligrafías / Wingraphies takes flight—21 poems honoring the birds of New Mexico, with art by Dashel Hernández Guirado & translation by Sasha Reiter. “An homage to poets in communion with nature.” #Poetry #Birds

If the world, as we know it, ended tomorrow—could you start again? The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization blends art, history & survival, from penicillin to beer, roads to music. Part encyclopedia, part art piece, all human ingenuity.

🚨We are happy to announce that our headquarters are now located in the beautiful city of San Antonio! We look forward to connecting with other organizations that share our vision. Stay tuned for updates about our upcoming 10-year anniversary celebration. 🎉🎊