2023 Edition

The Lit 2023

Casa de las Américas LGBTQIA Contest Winners

A Promise Goes Both Ways … Alexandra Rivera
      Some Questions for Alexandra Rivera

Era Death … Kaylin Rivera
        Some Questions for Kaylin Rivera

Ode to a Strange Planet … Victoria Segarra
       Some Questions for Victoria Segarra

I Don’t Believe in Subtlety

by Josseline Cruz Garcia

Adventure

by Jasmine Chan

Other

Contributors

Poetry

Existential Sex, Scraped Knees, & The Meat Interrogates Itself … Paris Armstrong

Summer…Rianna Cruz

Loving a Soldier… Franchesca Cuba

The Cardboard Piano … David Garate

I Pledge Allegiance … Dom Glover
       Listen to Dom Glover read I Pledge Allegiance

Senses of Grief & Remembering When … Melony Hodge

Childhood Fragments … Favi Olmedo
       Listen to Favi Olmedo read Childhood Fragments

Cold Show … Matthew Pacuruco
      Some Questions for Matthew Pacuruco

My Best Friend … Juan Parades

Flash Fiction & Creative Nonfiction

Mine … Robbie Atienza
       Some Questions for Robbie Atienza

Chocolate Bar in the Summer … Joel Pazmiño Rodriguez

The Little Differences … Raisa Zannat

Art

Sage

by Maria Clara

Thrift Shop

by Maria Clara

Click to also read some questions we had for the artist.

Life

by Maria Huertas

Shine LaGuardia

by Jeannine Nixon

2023 Masthead

Many thanks to…

Dr. Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez and Casa de las Américas, in collaboration with the LaGuardia Wagner Archives, the Office of the Mayor, the New York City LGBTQIA Caucus, and the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium, for sponsoring the LGBTQIA Contest —

& to the Creative Writing & Art faculty who encouraged their students to write, make art, and submit!