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Editor of the Latinx Archive Speculative Trilogy: Latinx Rising, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, and Not Your Papi's Utopia. Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UNM. Active agent in the Speculative Detective Agency.
BIPOC PoP is a mind-bending experience, gathering academics and artists in a way that I have never seen before. Big thanks to everyone who made this happen and of course to Frederick Luis Aldama who has fine-tuned that LatinX Cerebro!
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Our book, NYPU, gets some Locus Love!
LOCUS MAGAZINE: 2025 Books We Loved: Not Your Papi’s Utopia by Matthew David Goodwin, Alex Hernandez, Sara Rivera, eds.
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But mostly I think this is a new direction in the way you are thinking about it. Very cool @s.qiouyi.lu!
Wow, cool ideas! There's Reyes Cardenas' "Los Pachucos y La Flying Saucer" 1975, and some kid lit works like Lowriders in Outer Space 2014. You can see Bladerunner in this light as well with EJO's Pachuco. We have a car club at UNM I'll ask around and see if anything else pops up. Keep it going!!!
Xicanxfuturism is a new and fierce codex that editors Scott Duncan and Jenny Irizary have expertly painted with art, theory, and narrative. It's a lucha libre with migrant futurisms, Chicanx Manifestos, and gritty esperanzas on the mat as they face off against colonialism, racism, and capitalism.
THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY in @publisherswkly.bsky.social!
I am super excited for this cross-genre anthology edited by @latinxfiles.bsky.social and @richienarvaez.bsky.social,
coming in Fall '26! @diversionbooks.bsky.social
Small Change today in the schedule:
11:30AM-12:30PM:
Speaker #11: Jonathan Leal: “This Place, In Time: Letter to a Friend in Days Unknown”
12:30PM-1:30PM
Speaker #10: Catherine S. Ramírez: “Mothers, Migrants, Monsters”
Today is the final day of the Latinx Visions 2.0 conference and it is quite the day!
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We are really glad that so many people have been able to come to the Latinx Visions 2.0 conference! And there is more on the way...
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Lots of great things happening at the Latinx Visions 2.0 conference. Come by today for some wonderful discussion!
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Latinx Visions 2.0 has some amazing main speakers, come and join us!
David Vasquez
Jessica Hernandez
Camilla Fojas
Frederick Luis Aldama
Brenda Peynado
Steven Gonzalez
Nicola Hunte
William Anthony Nericcio
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Catherine Ramírez
Jonathan Leal
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Hi All, The Latinx Visions 2.0 conference has 4 speculative fiction writing workshops baked into the schedule! Please pass this information along to writers and writing programs.
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Reminder that Latinx Visions 2.0 is free and open to everyone. We want this gathering to be a fantastic experience and as accessible as we can make it. We'll see you November 3! (I mean just look at day one of the schedule!)
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Hi! Yes we have a contract with Diversion Books. It's exclusive for 12 months then shifts to non-exclusive. Good luck!
It's time to register for the Latinx Visions 2.0 Conference! This is going to be a much needed imaginative week steeped in the Latinx speculative.
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In Amber Sparks' "The Case of the Girl Who Was Already Dead" a living dead agent should be out hunting the cryptid known as the Bray Road Beast, but then a young girl, the daughter of a dead father and living mother, asks for some help with her ghosts.This story has a very Wisconsin Death Trip feel!
We reached our funding goal for the Speculative Detective Agency kickstarter!! And of course you can still be part of this crazy adventure until Saturday by getting some cool rewards, the t-shirt, veladora, posters, and you can get the book at a discount.
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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 31ST!
The Speculative Detective Agency
Co-Editors: Matthew David Goodwin and Richie Narvaez
Call for Stories:
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The Kickstarter:
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---TRUST THE MYSTERY---
Many years ago Richie and I had a meeting with an artist and the artist was kind of rude and the project didn't work out. It happens. But then Richie suggested we create our own performance of the Alien Space Queen de Puerto Rico.
And here we are now making a super cool book! tinyurl.com/2x4rp52h
In Alex Hernandez's short story "El Gato Gris," Agent Araceli Turey’s first clue in solving the La Palmita Nursing Home murders comes from a psychometric vision, in which she arrives at a 1930s nightclub in Havana headlined by the devilish trickster El Gato Gris.
4 Days Left! tinyurl.com/2x4rp52h
Hey everyone, Please check out and support this super cool anthology: The Speculative Detective Agency on Kickstarter.
If you love mystery, speculative fiction, and creative storytelling…I’d love your help making this a reality!
Learn more & back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Heather E. Ash's story "21 Sesame Street"! After a Bloody Mary sighting at the local kindergarten, Joseph goes undercover as a six-year-old, making use of his unique ability to age-shift. It will take a lot more than Special Edition Pokémon cards to solve this case. Final Week! tinyurl.com/2x4rp52h
Only 6 Days Left, #specfic fans! Please support THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY Anthology kickstarter! #5amwritersclub
Author Highlight #6: Monique Laban: "Anomaly Fixed"
For people like Paulina who have trouble finding their place in the world, ghosts are a walk in the park, but a structural haunting, now that is a real challenge!
6 DAYS LEFT TO GO!
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Hypnotize yourself with a great book!
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The Speculative Detective Agency edited by Matthew David Goodwin and Richie Narvaez will be published by Diversion Books in Fall of 2026. We are committed to paying the authors, and we need your donation to make this happen.
Author Highlight #5
Lincoln Michel's "Language Trouble"
Agent Retter has been saddled with an annoying robot sidekick by the SDA, and is assigned the case of a missing cy-sorcer! His question is the one we all ask: How do you keep your humanity in the age of AI?
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Fans (and writers!) of SFF and noir, check out this new anthology. They're also taking submissions. 🕵️♀️👻🤖📖
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Author Highlight #4: Richie Narvaez: "A Haunting on South Fourth Street"
Newly minted speculative detective Carmen Ruiz has an intern position with legendary detective Awilda Brunhilda Vasconcello of the New York office. There are ghosts of course, but Carmen has to first deal with her own demons.
And check out our call for stories!
ONLY 10 DAYS LEFT! Help support the Kickstarter for THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY Anthology. International. Multiethnic. Multigenre. All in a shared fictional world.
Featuring authors such as Megan Chee, Monique Laban, Lincoln Michel, & Amber Sparks
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