We are thrilled to share our Winter 2023 issue, The 10th Anniversary Issue, Part II: Fiction & Interviews. Please see below for letter from the editor and the table of contents.
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All of the pieces are available to read online for free below. The print issue features new reflections from contributors on their pieces as they share what inspired the piece and what it means to them now.
Introduction from Angie Cruz
Dear ones,
We are thrilled to share the second part of our tenth anniversary double issue, highlighting some of the best short fiction and interviews our journal has to offer.
Thank you to everyone who has stepped in, stepped up, volunteered their time, trusted us with their contributions, accepted our invitations, invited yourselves to the party, forgave us when we didn’t respond, and asked time and time again: “How can we help?” Who said, “If we can help, we will.” Thank you to each and every one of you who makes up this brilliant collective of writers, artists, editors, readers, and community members that we call la Aster(ix) familia.
We have arrived to ten years because we have each other. Aster(ix) was born as a place of play, a laboratory, a publication that invites writers to take their time with their work. It is the censored and omitted. It is footnotes and to be continued. Aster(ix) honors Mayan heart knowing, the alignment with divine will, the torchbearer. We continue to cast lines between the future and the past, the possible and the impossible.
Pa’lante,
Angie
10th Anniversary Issue
Part 2: Fiction & Interviews
Table of Contents
All of the pieces are available to read online for free. The print issue, available for purchase, contains additional retrospective comments and reflections from the authors on their work.
- “Drawing Maps” a conversation by Sandra Cisneros and Angie Cruz with Armando García, Clarissa A. León, Adriana E. Ramírez, Elizabeth Rodriguez-Fielder, Tanya Shirazi, and Angela Velez
Originally published in our Fall 2017 issue, Dirty Laundry - “Still Life” by Cecca Austin Ochoa
Appeared in our Spring 2017 Issue, Best of Kweli - “Unfading” by Nathalie Handal
Originally published in our Winter 2020-2021 Issue, The Fiction Issue
Featured in Best Microfiction 2021 - “Love Story for a Foreign Girl” by Fiona Cheong
Appeared in our Spring 2016 issue, Atravesando - “The One-Eyed Bat!” by Yalitza Ferreras
Originally published in our Summer 2019 issue, Inheritance - “The Past is Not Always Past: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat” by Jessica Lanay Moore
Originally published in July 2017 online at asterixjournal.com - “Last-Last Resignation” by Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Originally published in our Winter 2020-2021 Issue, The Fiction Issue - “The Girl With Two Brothers” by Sejal Shah
Appeared online in November 2017 at asterixjournal.com - Selections from “The Proscenium” by Vi Khi Nao
Originally published in our Fall 2018 issue, Edges - “Time Served” by Celeste Prince
Originally published in our Fall 2013 Issue, The Fiction Issue - “Dalila” by Kianny Antigua, translated by Noah T. Myers
Originally published in our Fall 2014 Issue, Kianny Antigua - “Vão / Vòng: A Conversation with Katrina Dodson” by Madhu Kaza
Originally published in our Summer 2017 issue, Kitchen Table Translation - “The Eternal Pursuit of the Whale’s Song” by Keya Mitra
Originally published in our Spring 2016 issue, Atravesando - “Summer of Nene” by Ivelisse Rodriguez
Appeared online in April 2014 at asterixjournal.com - “House Call” by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Appeared in our Fall 2017 issue, Dirty Laundry
Featured in Best Small Fictions 2018 @ BraddockAveBook - “Earth-Language” by Katie Gutierrez
Originally published in our Fall 2013 Issue, The Fiction Issue - “The Excavation of Identity as a Political Act: A Conversation with Helena Maria Viramontes” by Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
Originally published in January 2017 online at asterixjournal.com
Masthead for the Aster(ix) 10th Anniversary Issue Part 2: Fiction & Interviews, Edited by Angie Cruz
- Editor-in-Chief/Founder • Angie Cruz
- Publisher/Founder • Adriana E. Ramírez
- Managing Editors • Amanda Tien & Megan Valley
- Senior Editor • Tanya Shirazi
- Contributing Editors for The 10th Anniversary Issues • Laura Kenney, Sangi Lama, Sandra Lee, Paola Liendo, Avery Robinson, Kandala Singh, Kira Witkin
- Aster(ix) Contributing Editors • Rosa Alcalá, Arielle Greenberg, Yona Harvey, Daisy Hernández, J. A. Howard, Sheila Maldonado, Dawn Lundy Martin, Oindrila Mukherjee, Idra Novey, Emily Raboteau, Nelly Rosario, Zohra Saed, Sun Yung Shin, Jenelle Troxell, Chika Unigwe, Autumn Womack, Elleni Centime Zeleke
- Advisory Editors • Ari Ariel, Armando Garcia, Amy Sara Carroll, Norma Cantú, Xochi Candalaria, Jennifer Clement, Edwidge Danticat, Cristina García, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Andrea Thome, Helena Maria Viramontes
