Read more about the article IRDA Winning Author Carlos Andrés Gómez: “HIJITO is an uncompromising reckoning with race, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and violence.”

IRDA Winning Author Carlos Andrés Gómez: “HIJITO is an uncompromising reckoning with race, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and violence.”

In Hijito—selected by Eduardo C. Corral as winner of the 2018 Broken River Prize—Carlos Andrés Gómez writes of brutality and beauty with the same urgency and with a truth that burns readily; it is a collection of survival instincts.

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Read more about the article IRDA Winning Author Stefanie Naumann: “[My grandfather] immigrated to the U.S. because he fiercely believed in independence + the voice of the people being heard…”

IRDA Winning Author Stefanie Naumann: “[My grandfather] immigrated to the U.S. because he fiercely believed in independence + the voice of the people being heard…”

Orphaned in Poland at the age of thirteen, Tadeusz "Tad" Haska survived World War II on the run, escaped jail by the Soviet Secret Police, and launched an elaborate plan to smuggle his wife in a coffin on an all-male ship

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Read more about the article IRDA Winner Kergan Edwards-Stout on his Motivation: “I am an activist at heart, so trying to change hearts and minds fuels all I write.”

IRDA Winner Kergan Edwards-Stout on his Motivation: “I am an activist at heart, so trying to change hearts and minds fuels all I write.”

Imagine thinking you had the ideal life. The perfect partner, on whom you relied and trusted. An infant child, newly adopted. Then one day, you wake up, and the life you’ve been living has suddenly turned upside down. 

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Read more about the article IRDA Winning Author Cindy Klement: “I’m interested in getting this information into the hands of people so that they can take action to protect themselves and their loved ones.”

IRDA Winning Author Cindy Klement: “I’m interested in getting this information into the hands of people so that they can take action to protect themselves and their loved ones.”

What are the health consequences of continued exposure to environmental chemicals throughout a lifetime, beginning in the womb?

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