7th Annual New American Voices Award Ceremony

Thursday, October 17, 2024 7:30 PM EDT
Center for the Arts, Grand Tier III

Enjoy the three powerhouse finalists – and celebrate the winner – of the Seventh Annual New American Voices Award for immigrant writers. Finalists Alex Espinoza, author of The Sons of El Rey, Carrie Sun, author of Private Equity, and Shahnaz Habib, author of Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travelwill be joined by this year’s judges: Myriam J. A. Chancy, V.V. Ganeshananthan, and Karin Tanabe. The New American Voices Award was created in 2018 by Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research to recognize recently published works that illuminate the complexity of the human experience as told by immigrants, whose work is historically underrepresented in writing and publishing. Sponsored by the Institute for Immigration Research.