DREAMing Out Loud: An Anthology of Migrant Writers tugs at the essence of migrant life in New York City and introduces us to often overlooked narratives. This annual collection of art features original writing and drawings from DREAMing Out Loud, PEN America’s tuition-free writing workshop series for migrant writers in New York City founded by the award-winning Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue in 2016. Through writing that is a testament to hope, bravery, and sheer will, these voices, these lives, are celebrated, uplifted, and commemorated.
The fifth volume in this anthology series includes new plays, short stories, poems, essays, and, for the first time, children’s book writing complete with illustrations, by writers from Mexico to Nigeria, Kazakhstan to Honduras, Brazil to Jamaica, South Africa to Bangladesh, and beyond. Featuring an introduction by Ecuadorian-American writer Stephan Sebastian Herrera, who has taught and assisted DREAMing Out Loud workshops alongside writer and program founder Álvaro Enrigue, writer Charlie Vázquez, writer and playwright Cherry Lou Sy, writer and illustrator Claudia Rueda, and playwright Victor I. Cazares, DREAMing Out Loud: An Anthology of Migrant Writers invites you to celebrate emerging migrant writers.
