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- The Journey to Salvation Mountain (The Hairpin)
- How to Write Erotic Fanfiction (Hopes & Fears)
Cecca Ochoa
Cecca Ochoa is a Salvadoran American fiction writer and essayist. She serves as Nonfiction Editor for Apogee Journal. She co-founded, served as Editor and Contributing Writer for Art xx and Aorta magazines. She is a 2014 Alumnus of Voices of Our Nation’s Artists. In 2011, she received the Astraea Foundation’s Lesbian Writer’s Award.
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SIMONE “Azúcar” Nikkole
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Lauretta
I’m from California, but have lived in New York for 10 years. I like donuts and turn ups, in that order.
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Carla Bruce-Eddings
Korde Arrington Tuttle
Tammie Teclemariam
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Kate Gavino
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- Sunday Comic: The Eyes Have It (Rookie)
- The Illustrated A-Z Guide To Author Wardrobe Staples (BuzzFeed)
- Social Media Patron Saints (The Hairpin)
- '2014 Baby-Sitters Club' Puts Millennial Spin on a Childhood Classic (Mashable)
- Personal Website
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Giri Nathan
I would like to meet other writers of color (because I don’t really know many “irl”). This would double as a dope invite list for a party!
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- Heems At Home (The Awl)
- Giri Nathan (Nassau Weekly)
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Caitlin Cruz
I’ve lived all over the US and will go anywhere for a story.
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- Why Banning Frats Isn't A Magic Cure-All (Talking Points Memo)
- SPU shooter: Despite troubling history, law let him have guns (The Seattle Times)
- Federal panel visits Arizona to discuss violence against reservation children (Cronkite News)
- Record Numbers of Female Vets Strain System (News 21)
- Government Slow to Respond to Epidemic of Sexual Assaults (News 21)
- Sorry, Service Apps Are Not The Future—They're For Rich People (Talking Points Memo)
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Tahirah Hairston
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- Jessie Ware (New York Magazine)
- Lion Babe (Interview)
- A Dance Class With Beyonce's Backup Dancers (Vogue)
- Natalia Kills (Paper)
- Shapeshifter, RL Grime (Paper)
- Personal Website
- Blog
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Brittany Spanos
I’m full-time at Rolling Stone and am not looking for any freelance work at the moment. However, I’m always available for quotes, panels, etc!
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Brian Fleurantin
I began writing in 2011, and I joined Netsdaily.com on a full time basis in October 2013. Offline, I work for a non-profit organization that works with the developmentally disabled.
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- Tumblr
- On Derrick Rose and Athletes Speaking Up (Nets Daily)
- The NBA's Atlanta Hawks problem (Nets Daily)
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Tasnim Ahmed
Taylor Bryant
I work in beauty right now but definitely want to branch out into different writing subjects — and plan to start freelance writing soon. Fashion, culture, music, reporting are all things that interest me.
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Justin Michael Carissimo
I’m pretty good at breaking news and have a broad range of genres I’m comfortable writing for. Follow me on Twitter!
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- Portraits of Gaza's Children and their Lost Homes (IB Times)
- Did Scott Walker ruin Wisconsin's judicial system? (Legal Funding Central)
- Does the NFL have any Business Telling Black Players to Stop Saying the N-Word? (BuzzFeed)
- Struggles Every DJ Understands (BuzzFeed)
- Justin Carissimo: Clips
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Jaz Joyner
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Candice Iloh
Candice Iloh is a poet, creative writer, and educator residing in Brooklyn, NY whose work has appeared in Insight Magazine, Blackberry Magazine, Fjords Review, The Black Youth Project, The Grio, and For Harriet. She is a VONA fellowship recipient and the Managing Editor of Quiet Lunch Magazine. When she is not writing or working with young people, she dances.
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- Tired (Fighting Cancer with Poetry)
- DO I STILL GOT IT. (Fjords)
- Why I'm Not Here for the Abusive Language of Respectability Politics (For Harriet)
- Deborah Cox was the bright spot in film that seemed more about Bobby than Whitney (The Grio)
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Justin Allen
Research poetry and (non)fiction. I make a zine with my friends
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Kyle Lucia Wu
I have a BA from Psychology from New York University and am working toward my MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, where I’ll graduate in May. I work as the publishing intern at Guernica, and a research assistant for John Reed, as well as in the office of The New School Graduate Writing Program. I have also studied at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for an eight-week fiction program.
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- The Rumpus Interview with Ben Fama (The Rumpus)
- NBCC John Leonard Prize Winner Phil Klay in Conversation with Kyle Lucia Wu (The New School of Writing)
- Book Review: Whipping Boy by Allen Kurzweil (Entropy Magazine)
- The Art of French Cooking (Joyland Magazine)
- Of Course You Can Freeze Avocados (Aftertastes)
- A Broken Heart in Chetumal (Catch & Release: The Literary Blog of Columbia, A Journal of Literature and Art)
- Anthony Marra in Conversation with Kyle Lucia Wu (Writing at The New School)
- The Immortal Mogwai (Interview Magazine)
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Jenny Zhang
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Jaime Chu
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- Half a Lifelong Romance – Eileen Chang (Full-Stop Magazine)
- The Almost Girl: An Interview with Chelsea Hodson (The Hairpin)
- Accidental Fish Stew (Aftertastes)
- Letters from the Shore (HWY)
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Alison Kinney
My book, HOOD, will be published by Bloomsbury in January 2016: “We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who’s ever grabbed a hoodie on a chilly day. Alison Kinney’s HOOD explores the material and symbolic vibrancy of this everyday garment and political semaphore, which often protects the powerful at the expense of the powerless—with deadly results. Kinney considers medieval clerics and the Klan, anti-hoodie campaigns and the Hooded Man of Abu Ghraib, the Inquisition and the murder of Trayvon Martin, uncovering both the hooded perpetrators of violence and the hooded victims in their sights.”
Thanks!
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- HOOD (Bloomsbury, 2016)
- Vicks VapoRub and Me (The Atlantic)
- Lessons From a "Local Food" Scam Artist (Narratively)
- The Leading Lady v. The Loser (Narratively)
- 'A filthy process in which I was engaged': Revising Frankenstein (Avidly)
- Fifty Shades of Brontë (The Hairpin)
- Jon Stewart cursed me out (Salon)
- Philistine, or What Happens When You Break A Sculpture in a Gallery (Hyperallergic)
- Breasts: Suffrage, Suffering and Cecily McMillan (New Criticals)
- Christoph Schlingensief: Blood, Blackface, and the Total Works of Wagner (The Mantle)
- Disinter & Reconfigure: A Conversation With Composer Philip Miller (The Mantle)
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Larissa Pham
Send to ask questions and get into trouble. Ask to write about art and sex. Writes compassionate, critical essays on anything from family cultural history to getting drunk with skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland.
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- Showing My Hand (The Hairpin)
- House on Fire (Adult)
- Notes on an Eating Disorder (BuzzFeed)
- Larissa Pham: website
- Contently Archive
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Tonya Cherie Hegamin
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Sarah Fonseca
Daniel José Older
I write the Bone Street Rumba Urban Fantasy series, which began in January 2015 with Half-Resurrection Blues (Penguin’s Roc Books). My first YA novel is Shadowshaper, from Scholastic’s Arthur A. Levine Books. I co-edited the anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History.
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- Diversity Is Not Enough: Race Power Publishing (Buzzfeed)
- Context As Crisis: The Street Is A Book (Model View Culture)
- Anyway: Angie (Tor)
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Syreeta McFadden
Monthly columnist for Comment is Free, Guardian US.
Photographer, sometimes.
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- Book review: "All About Skin" Resists Singular Story (Poets & Writers)
- Personal essay/reported: Teaching the Camera to See My Skin (BuzzFeed)
- Column: The Lack of Female Genitals on Statues Seems Thoughtless Until You See It Repeated (The Guardian)
- Criticism/essay: Black Bodies In White Words, Or: Why We Need Claudia Rankine (NPR Code Switch)
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Akilah Hughes
Suzy Exposito
Yes I am a witch