Dantiel W. Moniz is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, the Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award by the Key West Literary Seminars, and a Tin House Scholarship.
Hungered (2026) Amanda Rizkalla "On each page, Rizkalla's precise and tangible rendering of image, of hope like candy floss, of familial bonds and betrayal-each sentence-is an opening to stay. Readers will devour this world, easily."
This Kind of Trouble (2025) Tochi Eze "An immersive and bewitching tale of family, fortune, love, and all that is sacrificed in pursuit of it. With masterful craft, Eze guides the reader through alternating years and perspectives to illuminating cumulative effect. THIS KIND OF TROUBLE is gorgeous, a promising debut signifying the emergence of an important new talent."
Aesthetica (2022) Allie Rowbottom "Allie's writing is a light to follow in the dark, illuminating those human realities we often wish would stay hidden, but deep down, if we're open enough, are grateful to have seen all the same. I'm thrilled she wrote this story of discovery and self in the time of social media."
Gods of Want (2022) K-Ming Chang "These stories glitter and pulse, announcing Chang, with her second book, as a front-runner of innovation anew. Full of mythic desire, joy and pain disguised as the other, and navigating the precarious balance of how to belong to a land while still belonging to oneself, Gods of Want is bursting with language and images so striking, so sure of their own strength, I found myself stunned. The worlds and characters depicted in these pages are original, strange, sometimes-horrific, and all the more gorgeous because of it."
Vagabonds! (2022) Eloghosa Osunde "Full of surprising, tender, biting language, Eloghosa Osunde's VAGABONDS! sets a stage where gods play personal games with human lives... this novel astounded me."
Nobody's Magic (2022) Destiny O Birdsong "As with Destiny Birdsong's poetry, the stories in Nobody's Magic are striking and original, full of down-home hilarity, Black love, truth, grief, and the sometimes-uncertain roads one travels to accept the self. Birdsong's is a powerful voice I'd follow anywhere."
None But the Righteous (2022) Chantal James "At once spiritual and earthly, balancing with deft what is metaphysical and what is flesh, James' None But the Righteous ensnares, haunts, and fulfills that ancient, human need for narrative in carefully chosen language. You'll fall right into this world."
