(for GUIDELINES, click here)

• Paloma Martinez-Cruz, Other Bombs
• Asani Charles, Wordsongs for Grandmas
• Sheila Carter-Jones, Elegy-ish
• Fia Montero, Everything But the Bones
• Isabel Cristina Legarda, The Pillar Dwellers’ Handbook
• Sheema Kalbasi, The War Took Our Names [forthcoming]